Burning Full Length Feature Onto DVD?

You may need to compress it before putting it on. Sad but true. There are also programs out there that will compress the iso onto a DVD for you.

What program are you using?

Dreadylocks said:

You may need to compress it before putting it on. Sad but true. There are also programs out there that will compress the iso onto a DVD for you.

What program are you using?

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Sony Vegas Platinum Pro 9 and maybe DVD Architect to design menus, etc. I really don't want a loss of quality. There's gotta be a way if others have done it and continue to do it, right?

Sort of. I'm no expert but as far as I know, there is no such thing as HD DVD (well, besides bluray), so you will lose some quality.
The other thing is that most professional DVDs have twice the capacity of those you can burn with a typical DVD burner. Look into dual-layer DVDs, they hold something like 8-9 gigs.

You need to encode the movie to the DVD standard of MPEG2, and you can adjust the Bitrate setting to maximize your quality for fitting on either a DVD-5 (4.7 gig disc) or DVD-9 (dual layer 9 gig disc).

For one hour and 20 minutes (80 minutes), I'd say you can do a bit rate of about 6 meg per second quality CBR (Constant Bit Rate) and it will look pretty good.

sonnyboo said:

You need to encode the movie to the DVD standard of MPEG2, and you can adjust the Bitrate setting to maximize your quality for fitting on either a DVD-5 (4.7 gig disc) or DVD-9 (dual layer 9 gig disc).

For one hour and 20 minutes (80 minutes), I'd say you can do a bit rate of about 6 meg per second quality CBR (Constant Bit Rate) and it will look pretty good.

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Suddenly you're my favorite stranger. Thanks tons, dude.

Dreadylocks said:

Sort of. I'm no expert but as far as I know, there is no such thing as HD DVD (well, besides bluray), so you will lose some quality.
The other thing is that most professional DVDs have twice the capacity of those you can burn with a typical DVD burner. Look into dual-layer DVDs, they hold something like 8-9 gigs.

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They did make HD DVD several years ago, right when BluRay was coming out and there was a big HD vs. BluRay war in the entertainment biz. Nobody would buy an HD DVD player AND a BluRay player, unless they're filthy rich, and there's always a preferred format so in the end only one company would survive and the other one would go out of business. It all came down to what gamers (PS3s mostly) and porn viewers preferred; BluRay became champion. So, in like 2008 the war ended and BluRay became the favorite while HD DVD went out of business and stopped producing DVDs, burnable DVDs, etc. You can still find HD DVDs on the Internet, but unless you have an HD DVD player from when they were in biz (I'm guessing you don't as no one does), don't buy them; you won't be able to play them and they'll cost you an extra penny (maybe not now since they're outta stock), so, in short, no, they don't make HD DVDs (anymore), so it'd be useless to burn on one.

Unfortunately I don't have a BluRay player and many of the festivals I'm looking at don't list bluRay as one of their compatible formats. Thanks, though, I appreciate it!

I got a Samsung HD-DVD/Blu Ray combo payer for under $200 so I've been buying up a lot of movies for under $3 including shipping; it would cost more to rent these movies on regular DVD. I love seeing movies in 1080P and don't have to switch players or cables.

Some film festivals are now taking BLU RAY (BD-R recordables), but they are NOT the most reliable things. I've been testing my Blu Rays of short films in High Def at Best Buy and Wal Mart in their players. There are some skipping problems on some players but not others. Pop up menus are a nightmare.