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On 23 Apr 2005 07:01:51 -0700, "wizof103" <wizof103@bellatlantic.net>
wrote:

>I used my DV Camera's AV/DV feature to record from a VCR analog video
>and capture it on my PC as an AVI file. It is 1:40 mins and the size
>states that is is 22 gigs. I used Pinaclle Studio 8 and when I try to
>burn it I receive an Error that it is to large to fit on a single DVD.
>Need some basic help on compression, What software to compress? What
>software to Burn? Any help along with maybe a site on howto's would
>help greatly. Thank in advance.

When you've created the VIDEO_TS folder with Studio from the .avi file
and it is to large for a dvd, then an easy solution is to use a
program called: dvd shrink. It will compress the contents of the
VIDEO_TS folder to just fit on a dvd of your choice. However
compressing will decrease the picture quality.

Burning a dvd from the VIDEO_TS folder you've created, can be done
with Nero Burning Rom: just choose video dvd and drag the contents
from your VIDEO_TS folder into the empty VIDEO_TS folder of the dvd
compilation Nero provides, then choose 'burn'.

Of course you can use all kinds of programs to encode to mpeg-2 for
video dvd from your .avi file. A very good encoder is TMPGENC from
www.pegasys-inc.com . If you choose variabel bitrate from the
settings, you can get the best picture quality together with as little
data as possible, so you can fit as much video on dvd as possible.

The fastest mpeg-2 encoder is: CCE, with also the best picture quality
in the market. (not quite easy to use)

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On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 23:16:10 +0200, Bariloche
<bariloche@bariloche.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:35:20 +0200, Funprice
><jhbusscherNOSPAMWHATSOEVER@freemail.nl> wrote:
>
>>If you choose variabel bitrate from the
>>settings, you can get the best picture quality together with as little
>>data as possible, so you can fit as much video on dvd as possible.
>
>Or better: use CQ encoding, at a high Q, which is 1 pass, then use
>DVDShrink at the end. It's much faster (and probably better) than 2
>pass encoding.

No, I think 2-pass is the better technique. Use dvd shrink after this,
which will lower quality, but you start with the best possible when
using 2-pass.