How to fit 1.5 hrs home movie on a DVD disc

[Welliep53]

I'm new to DVD authoring. I used the Adobe Premier Pro to capture my past vacations movie using avi format. They are generall 1 to 2 hrs long When I tried to create a DVD using DVDIt Pro and found that it can on fit approx 70 mins on a 4.7GB DVD.

Can someone suggest what do I have to do in order to fit the 2 hrs avi file onto a DVD ?

Can I use DVD Shrink to re-author it ?
or
Do I have to change Premier Pro setting to further compress it ? If so, what video/audio settings that I need to change ?
or
Other suggestions ?

Thanks in advance

[kschang]

DVDShrink won't help you since your stuff is NOT on a DVD yet.

Use a bit-rate calculator (many available in tools section) and an MPEG encoder so you can control the encoding process in more detail. Basically, you need to lower the bitrate when you trancode AVI to MPEG2 (i.e. DVD), but you still want to retain as much quality as possible. So use the bitrate calculator, and see if DVDIt lets you adjust that when it takes in the AVI. If not, use one of the encoders we got here, then just have DVDIt read in the finished MPEG2.

[redwudz]

Use a bitrate calculator to find what bitrate is needed for your video playing time. https://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=1#1. Then you adjust the bitrate to fit the video to the DVD. 1.5 to 2 hours should fit with decent quality.

You might try a encoder like TMPGEnc. It has a wizard mode to lead you through the conversion. You would need to author the MPEG-2 file it produces. A simple authoring program like TMPGEnc DVD Author is easy to use. Authoring creates the DVD structure with menus, chapters, etc. Then you burn the result to DVD.

If your AVI is DV, a simple program like ConvertXToDVD is another option, though at a lower quality. There is a freeware version available lower on that page.

And there are lots of guides to the left for doing this type of conversion with a variety of tools. <<<<<<

[trossin]

It could also be that your audio is in PCM format (raw) instead of AC3 or MP2 (compressed). I had a version of DVDIt that came with my old 2.4x dvd200i (3 years or so ago) and it only supported PCM format so I stopped using it as there was no way to fit more than an hour on a disk without horrible image artifacts as the audio was taking up too much space.