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  1. OK, i'm using a Sony digital handycam and Adobe Premiere 7 Pro to do all my capturing - i have close to 2 hours worth of video i'd like to capture, edit, then author onto a DVD.

    i already have my tapes captured onto my computer - i used the DV format, so the files are pretty huge. one tape came out to be almost an hour, and the files totaled in size to about 12 gigs. now, i want to know if i will be able to 'squeeze' this back onto a dvd-r before i spend a bunch of time editing the film.

    i figure after editing and removing chunks of stuff i don't need, the whole project will be about 1h:15 to 1h:30 at most...

    should i recapture my film using a different format? i am burning using the ULead software suite that came with my DVD-R drive, but i don't use VS7 to edit cause i think it sucks...

    any tips out there? the main thing i want to retain is video QUALITY - i used USB to capture the video straight to WMV format before i went the DV route and the quality was unacceptable...

    thanks in advance!

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    One hour of DV video is 13Gb but to get your files in DVD format they need to be compressed into mpeg. One hour of DVD format mpeg WILL fit on a DVDR if you use fullframe (720 x 480 NTSC or 720 x 576 PAL) with a bitrate of 8000 kbs. As you want slightly more than an hour, you'll need to keep the framesize and drop the bitrate to around 6000 - 6500 kbs.

    Use the Bitrate calculator in the Tools section on the left to see what maximum bitrate you can use to keep the quality as high as possible but still keeping the file size down to a size that will fit.
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    Hi four o two,

    See this link:

    https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=725433#725433

    ...for the steps I take to go from DV cam to DVD disk with menus and good quality. I don't claim it's the best way or the right way as there's loads of ways and loads of different tools. But it will give you a good insight into what you need to do, typical tools and settings.

    The only other thing you may well need is a bitrate calculator to tell you what bitrate you need to use either:
    1. As a max for Constant Bitrate encoding - CBR, or
    2. As the average for Variable Bitrate encoding - VBR (as I use in the link above).

    A good one is the DVDRHelp Bitrate Calculator, but the are others in the Tools section.

    I'd recommend getting yourself a re-writeable disk - This will avoid making coasters out of disks.

    Hope that helps. Good luck...
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