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ghoul

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22. December 2002 @ 18:04

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so here is my question i have been doing allot of video editing with my miniDV camera im ripping it all fully uncompressed and using adobe premiere for editing...

so here is my question: i have a bunch of scenes finalized in premiere that are only 3 minutes long but the file size is over 1gig how do i fit that on a VCD? without loosing allot of quality?...

my main goal is for this to be on a DVD and i dont understand how DVD's only hold 5-6 gigs but that comes to about 1½ hours of movie and yet my 1+ gig uncompressed AVI is only 3 minutes of video...

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Dela

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23. December 2002 @ 16:14

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uncompressed avi files are huge wheras if converted to vcd, that 3 minute file would be about 30mb's. I would convert it to SVCD if I were you and burn it to a disk using Nero.

Get TMPGEnc and use the wizard for creating svcd's http://www.tmpgenc.net

Then get nero and use that to burn the svcd http://www.nero.com

anything else ya need to know should be found here http://www.afterdawn.com/articles/

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WP2k

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25. December 2002 @ 09:19

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It's because neither DVDs nor VCDs contain AVI files. They both use MPEG files--VCDs hold MPEG-1 files, DVDs MPEG-2 files. You might not think by looking at it that the video on DVDs is highly compressed, but it is. Otherwise, well, you've discovered yourself how much (or how little) uncompressed video would fit on a DVD disc.

BTW, only commercial DVDs can hold 5-6 gigs. Recordable DVDs are limited to 4.7 gigs. Commercial DVDs that hold more are dual-layer discs, and there is no technology currently for making a burnable dual-layer disc; they can only be mass-pressed in a factory.

That said, if you encode your video to MPEG-2, you should be able to get about 1 1/2 hours on a DVD (it's usually the 30-45 minutes in extras, trailers, etc., that push commercial discs over the 4.7 gig limit).

If you want VCD, rather than DVD, your calculation is simpler: you can fit exactly as much MPEG-1 video on a CD as you can music--74 minutes on a 650MB CD, 80 minutes on a 700MB CD. The only hitch is that on a computer screen, the picture size is smaller.

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Read our DVD to VCD guide.

Download TMPGEnc from here.

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