TMPGEnc Template for 2 hour DVD

[jim s]

Does anyone have any suggestion for a template in TMPGEnc for 2 hours on a DVD from a AVI file? I see a lot of stuff about VCD but not much on this. If a run a VBR what is the maximum bit rate I can use? I don’t want to compress a file a day and find out it won’t fix. I tried a bit rate calculator and its said 6000 as the max? Does this sound correct?

Jim
starbuck@gate.net

[bugster]

According to
http://www.vcdhelp.com/calc.htm
you should use a Max bitrate of 4861 for 2 hours on a DVD

So if using TmpGenc 2pass VBR encoding set this as the average, then set your max to 8000 and min to 2000 (apparently some DVD players don't like V low bitrates!!) and off you go!

[jim s]

If the max is 4861 should I use a constant birate? It doesn't sound good if the default template is 7000. I need to do a test to see how much of a difference there is.

[LanceSteel]

I believe that the bitrate from the bitrate calculator is only for movies that are 720x480. If you lower the resolution to another dvd standard res (like 352x480) then you can lower the bitrate even more and the quality still looks just as good. In other words you can fit more data on the dvd.

[Bud]

If you visit the www.kvcd.net site you will find a KDVD Half template, it is set up for TMPGEnc at 352x480, audio at 48Hz, I use this and DVDiT to put up to two sometimes three movies on one DVD-R, keeping in mind the length of the movie. What you end up with is SVCD quality on a DVD-R. You have 4.7GB of disk space on each DVD-R. Works for me great.

Aloho
Bud

[NinaJane]

Here are the settings I used:

I put a 115 minute program (originally from DV) onto a DVD-R. I made a WAV file from the audio at 48Hz and used AVISynth to frameserve the video from Premiere to TMPGEnc. I set the resolution at 720 x 480.

I set TMPGEnc to 2-pass VBR, with the average bitrate at 4300 kbps. I set Motion Search Precision to very slow. The whole encoding process took 37 hours (!!), but at least it worked in the background using Windows XP, so it didn't tie up my computer.

The final MPEG2 file was 3.9 Gigs. I imported it into Ulead DVD Factory, added a 15-second first-play video, and made nesting menus with 16 chapter points.

The final project used all but the last 3-4 mm of the surface of the DVD, so I don't think I could have used a significantly higher bitrate. The final project looked terrific, hardly distinguishable from the original DV footage.

I would, therefore, recommend these settings.

(And thanks to all the wonderful people at VCDhelp, without whom I couldn't have done this!)

Nina

[LordVader]

Phantom Menace = 2:15 min ( 3.1 GB )
Important = is WideScreen (Movies in Full screen requires higher bitrates)

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Ok this is my Template:

720x480
CQ 5000Kbits = Quality 75%
48Khz Audio = 128Kbits

You don't need more Bitrate, trust me, i've been trying to find BIG SQUARES in my screen and i don't see anything.

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Also i have my Academy Awards ( Oscars 2002 ) 6hrs in one DVD with the Pre-Shows and everything.

use :
( Full Screen Mode)
480x480
CQ 2100 Kbits = Quality 60%
48Khz Audio = 112 Kbits

Note : Some DVD Player don't play lower bitrates, so.... make a test in some DVD-RW or something.

Good Luck.

[kwag]

As Bud said above. Using the KDVD template, you can put between 4 to 5 hours in a DVD-R. I did "The Matrix" complete 136 minutes, and the file size with audio is 2,063,645KB with the KDVD FULL D-1 template. Still space for another full movie ( or two ) in the DVD-R. With the KDVD HALF D-1 template, you can fit around 8 hours.

kwag