Posted by peter on 08/18/07 15:29

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:06:56 -0700, Richard Lane <rqlhgl@iieee.org>
> wrote:
>
>>I have ~3 hrs of miniDV video captured as four .mp3 files and would like
>>to produce a single layer DVD (4.38Gb). Much of the material is a
>>discussion with little motion but 30 mins is a yacht race with lots of
>>motion. How best to compress the 2+ hrs of discussion and burn it to DVD
>>that includes the HQ clip? I captured and will be editing with Power
>>Director 5 deluxe.
>>(1) Can DVD Shrink be of help?
>>(2) Should I have captured discussion part at LP bit rate?

I pledge ignorance. How can you capture miniDV video into mp3? I always
capture them as avi file.

Authoring DVD involves editing the video and encoding them into mpeg2 and
then write them to the DVD.

You can split your video into two clips, encode one into mpeg2 with a low
bit rate, and encode the other with a higher bit rate, then write these two
mpeg2 files onto the DVD. If your editing software does not allow you to do
this, then you need to use a different one.

DVDShrink may help. If you encode all the video at a very high bit rate such
that the resulting DVD exceeds 4.3 GB but below 8.5 (there is an upper limit
for dvdshrink), then use dvdshrink to shrink the dvd to fit a 4.3GB dvd. In
theory it would automatically allocate bit rate such that the motionless
portion use fewer bits and the action portion use more bits.

Capturing in LP or SP is irrelevant. In LP mode you are more likely to
suffer dropouts especially if you play back the tape in a different
camcorder.

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