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Hi, I'm an independent flimmaker. I've just gotten one of my films finished and I need to send it out to festivals. I imported the final edit back to my home computer. It comes in at a 4 gb avi. I need to get the best possible dvd made for projecting onto a big screen. I've tried using Roxio and that compresses it down 1.3 gb and tried Nero Recode. Nero Recode says in the menu that it's compessing it to 1.4 gb but when I burn it, it only comes out to around 900 mb. With Nero Recode it also won't play on my WinDVD player. I guess Roxio uses Mpeg-2 and Nero Recode uses Mpeg-4. What should I do to get the least compressed best format for DVD players possible and for projecting onto a big screen?
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Dual Layer mpeg-2, by using a good standalone encoder, and authoring app. -
Thank you. For a dual layer do I need a burner that does that or is that just the mpeg-2 codec that has that option? Also could you suggest a good standalone encoder and authoring app. I'm still pretty new to this stuff?Comment
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You need a burner capable of it, and software to burn it.
The best standalone encoder is Canopus Procoder. Second choice may be Mainconcept or CinemaCraft.
For authoring, Sonic Scenearist or DVDLab Pro.
The idea behind dual layer, is that you can get (almost) double the amount of video per disk...OR, you can get much higher quality video (higher bitrate=bigger files) on the disk.
SL holds ~4.7 gig.
DL holds ~8.75 gig.
A 2 hour movie, would have to have a bitrate not exceeding 4850kbps on an SL disk.
A 2 hour movie, could have a bitrate up to 9570kbps...virtually double the quality for the same running time on a DL disk.
Generally, one would encode with an average bitrate of about 8000-9000kbps, with peaks no more than 9500max.
This gives you roughly 2 hours, 20 minutes (a full length feature film for example) per DL disk.
Exceeding 9500 peak is not recommended, as many players cannot handle that much (and some will crap out after 8500).Comment
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a very good freeware encoder is the one from hank315: hc encoder
give it a try if you dont want to spent additonal bucks on an encoder
hc is very very good and should be worth a try!
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