Hi: Beware external drives that have a slow interface (USB-1), something I learned the hard way by plugging a fast drive into a slow USB front socket on my desktop computer. A cheap way to upgrade might be to add another internal drive (Scratch Drive) if you have a bay available in your computer.
On the issue of compression: you may want to (if the option is available) keep the audio quality at 16bit and sacrifice the video a little. A Dual Layer DVD might be a reasonable option to consider. You've spent a lot of time on a Great production. Keep it looking great! Maybe just flip it to miniDV tape and take it to a friend to code onto a dual layer DVD (or borrow his burner if external). The sony DL external burners are about $99 now. More later, Robin Edwards San Francisco --- In [email protected], "Johnny K. Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paal, you 'can' burn to 8.5gig with a dual layer dvd drives, however, I'm > not sure if Amit has a dual dvd burner or just a regular dvd burner, which > I'm just making a basic statement of dvd-r and dvd+r, not dual layer dvd > burners. > > Johnny > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Paal T Nygaard > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [AP] DVD Vs DV Tape > > Hi! > > I thought we could burn to a 8 gb DVD nowadays? If so, keeping data rates > high enough on DVD to have picture quality just as good as DV-tape, if not > better, should be possible? > > But I have also noticed that using too high data rates can cause some > playback machines to misbehave. > Maybe best highest data rate is around 7000, maybe 7500? > > Cheers, > > Paal > > > > > > > At 21:07 07.02.2007, you wrote: > > >Amit, best is to have system drive like 80gb or so and have data (video > >drive) as big as you can, of the time I've been editing, putting > >computers together, I avoid to have my data/video drive to be the same > >as the system drive so in case my system drive crashes, my video is still > intact. > > > >If your time line is 1hr 20 mins, you will have 'degradable' quality > >when go to dvd, keep in mind, a dvd-r or dvd+r can only fit 4.3gig of > >data, which means, the bigger your footage his, the more it has to > >compress to fit it in, so to keep quality up, is to have the audio to > >be encoded as ac3 format or mpeg layer 2 (which is mostly used in PAL > >system, not necessarily works with ntsc systems) > > > >So, that said, you'll never going to get as good quality as you can > >with a finished video on mini-dv tapes (taping on a lp mode or breaking > >it down into 2 tapes), what you can try is this: > > > >Play with data bit rates, play with the 2-pass maximum kbps bitrate of > >about 5000 and average of 4500 and minimum of 3500 see if that would > >work, if that number is too high, drop it down a bit to 500(-) and see, > >until you get to one that FITS into a dvd-r or dvd+r disc. Remember, > >your total file size should be about 4.3gig or less, anything higher > >than tat, you'll have problem fitting into the disc. > > > >Johnny Wu > >www.rapturethemovie.com > >www.mdifilm.com > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [email protected] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Behalf Of Amit Dogra > >Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:56 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [AP] DVD Vs DV Tape > > > >Edward, Johnny & David > > Thanks you very much for your valuable comments. > > > > I've few more questions: > > 1. If i have a 120GB(system drive) and a 80GB HDD(data drive) is it > >true that system drive should not be used for NLE activities? > > 2. My timeline is around 1 Hr. 20 Mins. Would you recommend any > >specific encoding setting for this duration. I'm confused between > >various NTSC high/low quality, 1-pass/2-pass, 4MB/7MB, CBR/VBR etc. > > > > Thanks in advance > > Amit > > > >Guerrilla Productions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amit, > > > >Might I recommend exporting from premiere as uncompressed AVI files and > >letting Encore do the encoding? > > > >It's probable that you're encoding out of Premiere and then RE-encoding > >with Encore. > > > >I do this for all my movies and the results are terrific. > > > >Cheers, > > > >Edward > > > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > >Because sometimes, you just HAVE to make movies. > >http://www.Guerrilla-Productions.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------- > >Bored stiff? Loosen up... > >Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! 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