Hi, I have recently bought a DVD-writer, and some software called DELL Movie Studio Plus.
It's pretty good, but I don't know how I am meant to fit the promised 120 minutes of video onto a DVD!!
I am using DVD+R discs, manufactured by Datawrite, and am creating my own MPEG-2 encoded video files using the DELL software. However, when I create my DVD, I can fit a maximum of about 55 minutes' worth of video files onto it! This is less than half of what I'm meant to be able to fit on.
At first I assumed it must be a compression problem. But I have tried many different compressions, and I cannot get smaller video files without making them unwatchable by virtue of the bad picture quality.
By my calculations, to fit 120 minutes of video onto a 4.7GB DVD+R, the video files would have to be about 30-40MB/minute. As I said, I can make .mpg files at about 30MB/minute, but the quality is awful.
What compression should I use... and what kind of picture quality should I be expecting for 120 minutes play on a DVD... Is it possible I'm expecting too much???
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
It's pretty good, but I don't know how I am meant to fit the promised 120 minutes of video onto a DVD!!
I am using DVD+R discs, manufactured by Datawrite, and am creating my own MPEG-2 encoded video files using the DELL software. However, when I create my DVD, I can fit a maximum of about 55 minutes' worth of video files onto it! This is less than half of what I'm meant to be able to fit on.
At first I assumed it must be a compression problem. But I have tried many different compressions, and I cannot get smaller video files without making them unwatchable by virtue of the bad picture quality.
By my calculations, to fit 120 minutes of video onto a 4.7GB DVD+R, the video files would have to be about 30-40MB/minute. As I said, I can make .mpg files at about 30MB/minute, but the quality is awful.
What compression should I use... and what kind of picture quality should I be expecting for 120 minutes play on a DVD... Is it possible I'm expecting too much???
Any help is appreciated, thanks!