Shrinking Video to fit many on one DVD

[XDelusion]

Ok, my dad wanted to back up all of my newphews Football games to a DVD, but he screwed up and captured the VHS's to full DVD resolution, and now you can only fit 1 45min game per DVD, as 2 games for some reason takes up all the space?

Anyhow I need to shrink these and would like to fit at least 4 per DVD without quality loss. What is the best res to set them in (ntsc) to do this, and what program is the most resource friendly for the project? One that will not un-sync the audio preferably.

[lordsmurf]

You cannot. Just deal with it, and don't do it next time. Or redo them all.

This, of course, is from a QUALITY IS MOST IMPORTANT point of view.

[jimmalenko]

In a perfect world, re-capture them.

If re-capture is not possible, you can either re-encode with your favorite encoder (I use TMPGEnc, but there is mainconcept, CCE .... and plenty more in to tools section), or transcode (I use DVDShrink and DVD2One, but there are again plenty more in to tools section). I think you'll need to re-encode (as the lesser of the two evils). But you never know, you might think the transcoder's out put is acceptable, so it probably wouldn't hurt to give it a try.

If you choose to re-encode, how much you can fit on a DVD is dependent on two things - the running time and the bitrate. Size = running time x bitrate, so obviously you know the size (1 DVD-R), you can work out the running time (4 * 45 = 180 minutes), so that the only "variable" we can really change is the bitrate.

Now according to the VideoHelp.com Bitrate Calculator, 3 hours w/ 192kbps audio requires a video bitrate of approx 3200kbps. At this bitrate, half-D1 (352 * 480/576) comes into play, in conjunction with a 2-Pass VBR encode.

[XDelusion]

FOOK!!!

Time consuming, oh well.

Thankx for the help!