Do I have any readers familiar with DVD authoring? The programs I use are the ATI TV recorder and Sony Vegas/DVD Architecht. I digitized a recording from a videotape last night, and it runs about 1:35. It’s split into three files, one for each act of the play. However, the files add up to five gigabytes—more than will fit on a DVD-R. However, the DVD should fit two hours of video.
I didn’t see any place in Sony Vegas where I could change the MPEG-2 compression settings. I’ll have to look again when I have more time, but if anyone has any suggestions, feel free to let me know.
In case you’re wondering, the video I am trying to write to DVD is Noises Off, the play I did my senior year of high school.
Is there not a way, like when burning a CD, that you can tell it to record as a video DVD instead of a data DVD?
All DVDs are data DVDs. Even DVDs you buy from the store have a “directory structure” and “files.” You just can’t see that because there’s a menu interface. DVD Architecht lets you build that interface for the DVDs you write.
I’m guessing your DVD drive doesn’t support multiple layers…?
To the best of my knowledge, only the newest, expensive DVD drives support multiple layers (4 hours instead of 2 hours)… but the DVD-R media are all single layer anyway.
Umm…DVD Shrink?
I’m a newb at all this DVD burning stuff, but someone told me all I’d ever need is DVD Shrink and DVD Region-free (and your standard burning software).