Complicated q..

[Chris24]

Hi,
I want to make what is called a "compilation set " of DVD's. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a set of a particular thing. The set that I'm going to make will be over 320 things and each thing will run anywhere from 15 min to around 45-50 min. I'm guessing it will take over 20 DVD's to make, I want each DVD to run about 6 hrs. in length. My question is, for quality purposes should I make the set on videos first, as I said it'd be over 20 videos and then transfer the videos to DVD, or should I just go ahead and capture each thing to my computer and go head and make the DVD's without putting them on video first? The only thing that will confuse me if I go straight to putting them on DVD is what I should set the bitrate to so I will be able to assure myself the 6 hrs on each DVD that I want. Any help and or advice is much appreciated. Thanks.

[lordsmurf]

Six hours on DVD will almost always look like crap unless you've got perfect quality progressive source.

[Chris24]

Such as?

[sacajaweeda]

Nothing outputted by a digital camcorder.

[pchan]

Chris24,
I have tried putting VCD format into DVD. Can put about 5~6hrs video on DVD disk. Here is Lordsmurf's guide.
http://digitalfaq.com/convert/vcdtodvd/vcdtodvd.htm

[US Guy]

Hi,
I want to make what is called a "compilation set " of DVD's. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a set of a particular thing. The set that I'm going to make will be over 320 things and each thing will run anywhere from 15 min to around 45-50 min. I'm guessing it will take over 20 DVD's to make, I want each DVD to run about 6 hrs. in length. My question is, for quality purposes should I make the set on videos first, as I said it'd be over 20 videos and then transfer the videos to DVD, or should I just go ahead and capture each thing to my computer and go head and make the DVD's without putting them on video first? The only thing that will confuse me if I go straight to putting them on DVD is what I should set the bitrate to so I will be able to assure myself the 6 hrs on each DVD that I want. Any help and or advice is much appreciated. Thanks.

IF you know what you are talking about, OR if you really know what you are doing, you would have been able to do this without posting this stupid, yes I mean stupid question.

Just for the records, I have been making DVDs with around 420 minutes playable on standalone players. I know also, I can put more as well.

[Faustus]

IF you know what you are talking about, OR if you really know what you are doing, you would have been able to do this without posting this stupid, yes I mean stupid question.

Just for the records, I have been making DVDs with around 420 minutes playable on standalone players. I know also, I can put more as well.

Please be civil, there is no reason to throw insults.

If you MUST get 6 hours on a disk either look into Half D1 video conversion or Dual Layer media.

[ZippyP.]

...what I should set the bitrate to so I will be able to assure myself the 6 hrs on each DVD that I want.

Try using a bitrate calculator, here. It says you can set the video bitrate to 1460 kbps and audio to 224 kbps to get 6 hrs on a DVD. I recommend 1/4 DVD resolution (352x240 NTSC) but you could try 1/2 DVD (352x480 NTSC) if you use 2-pass (or more) VBR encoding. If your source is captured footage then you should use some noise filtering as well.

PS, Don't be put off by the name calling, the newbie forum is meant for questions like this. I think you will find most people to be helpful on this site. Like any public forum, it takes all kinds.

[thecoalman]

Put the whole project on a single DVD... https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1039136#1039136

There's some links for example clips, not very practical though.

[Chris24]

Thanks for all the replies, I ignore ignorant ppl like that one reply, I do know what I'm doing, I've made hundreds of DVDs, the only problem I'm having is my audio is out of sync by like 5-8 secs, other then that everything is perfect, I just want to avoid that audio problem so that don't happen again...