Das boot captured, convert to 1 or 2 dvds, or 352 by 240 or?

[TBoneit]

I have a cpature of Das Boot Approx 4 hours, on the Hard drive tieing up space, I can't decide to convert to 720 by 480, 352, by 480 or go to the max squeeze and go to 352 by 240 mpeg1 and fit it on 1 DVD.

Has anyone done a video of that length ot 1 DVD and how were the results?

I already removed it (Prematurely I'm afraid) from where I could watch it on the TV, So now I need to get it onto a DVD to watch on the TV as I don't fancy sitting in front of the monitor for four hours to watch a movie.

Or maybe it'd be easier to rent it and spend the $4 vs $2 or less for a blank DVD.

Any thoughts and suggestions appreciated so TIA
Roger

[DJRumpy]

It's always easier to just rent it. If you want to convert it, and the movie is 4 hours long, I would definately go with half-d1 (352x480). This will allow an average bitrate of 2300 or so, which is ideal for CVD resolutions. You should use multipass to maximize your quality at this low bitrate.

Make sure you verify the movie length, and the highest AVG bitrate you can use with a bitrate calculator (use the one on this site. It's an excellent calculator).

[jnk76]

I did a back-up of Das boot Dir. Cut a month or 2 ago and it looked pretty good on one dvd in 720x480. the quality of original is not that great so even though the bitrate is lower than avg. it turns out pretty good. I didn't even endode with CCE. DVD2ONe did it just fine. Now this was done with just the English audio and no subs. If you was high quality you can put on two discs or encode with CCE which will do a really good job.

[DJRumpy]

What's the length of the movie? I would think that a frame size of 720x480 would look somewhat poor at only 2300 kbps.

[jnk76]

the movie was about 3.5 hours. For that movie it seemed pretty good. There were some artifacts in some scenes under water but in general it was very good. I think it was just under 7GB in total with all the soundtracks and subs so cut another 500 mb out for that and it only needed to transcode approx. 6.5GB.
When I did godfather which parts 1 and 3 were approx. 3.5 hours and part 2 was almost 4 hours the quality was much worse and all of those are on 2 disk sets.

[DJRumpy]

Still a bit low on bitrate for that frame size in my opinion (AVG: 2672 for 3.5 hours with 224kbs audio). I'd still go with Half-D1, or split it across two discs at full D1. I hesitate to use full D1 for anything less than 3500kbps. The Half D1, with a digital source, will look excellent, with no artifacts, or motion defects at all. It will be slightly softer than the full D1 though.

[TBoneit]

Well it shows as 6.85 GB Microsoft Gbs, and run time shows as

StartTime:22:00:00
EndTime:02:35:00

Part of that may have the normal before and after plugs for future attractions in the recorded time.

In this case I'm not talking a DVD rip, but a video capture. If the run time is right, I haven't verified it yet, then the bit rate becomes 2038 according ot the bitrate calculator...

I wonder if there are different length versions being shown??

Maybe just throw it away and rent. or use TMPGEnc DVD program as that will let me split it up easily onto two DVDs, If I use cheap throw away Princos I'm not out too much money.

This answer just occured to me and I think that is the way to go, fast easy etc. Plus this way no conversion loss as the movie is already a form of MPEG2 that my player can handle with DVDPatcher useage.

With these caps I usually use DVDpatcher and TMPGEnc DVD and they play fine on the DVD Players I have. Ulead MF2 had issues with creating smooth playing disks from these files but TMPGEnc DVD doesn't.

SO that's what I'll do, I can do that in about 40 minutes to create the two disks, and two hours to burn them on 1X Princos (Cheap)

Thanks for the help.
Roger