problem with school dance show
by nromanski
on
Feb 16, 2007 at 2:23:02 pm
Hi,
I've edited a school dance show in Premiere 6.5 and used Adobe encoder to prepare as mpeg - I've imported this to DVD Workshop 2 as many times before and added chapters and menus before choosing disc template for 180min. project and burning to disc image file.
When I try to burn the iso. file in Nero (again as often times before) it says file is too big.
I've now ticked 'convert to disc template' in both audio and video sections of EDIT step and am burning disc image file again but it is taking a heck of a long time.
Will it be worth the wait or will I have to also change menus from motion to still and remove background music from menus.
Will picture quality be seiously affected?
Thanks for any advice - its now converted 17% in 2 hours 37 min. - I don't want to wait several hours for this to compete only for it not to fit on DVD
Norman
Re: problem with school dance show by Jon Holiday on Feb 19, 2007 at 10:09:30 pm
Well, a couple things - Without knowing the exact length and properties, I can't give you specifics, but generally....
When you encoded to MPG outside DVDWS, did you encode it at the proper bitrate for the length in the first place? If so, then, you would not need the "convert to disc template" option. And, in fact, that would be less than ideal, because now you would be encoding an already encoded file. So that procedure needs to happen from a DV AVI file, or what have you.
My suspicion is that your original encode produced a file that IS too large - thus, the message. OR that together with the audio is too large. Your current process may work to make it fit, but because DVDWS is re-encoding the already encoded file - yes, that's why its taking longer, plus its not ideal as I mention above. Ideally, if you encode outside DVDWS, get the numbers right and DO NOT check "convert to disc...". If you import the original edited AVI file into DVDWS, then selecting the proper template should do it.
IF your actual video length is, say, 150 minutes, then I would use a video bitrate avg of 3600, an audio bitrate of 224 (that would be an AC3 encoded audio stream), and definitely use a 2-pass VBR method.
Check out this bitrate calculator
