Any Apple software for iMovie to DVD w/bitrate control?

[drewson99]

I have a new Powerbook G4, and am trying to learn to use it in the place of my old friends Virtualdub and TMPGEnc.

I want to export my iMovie project as .mov or avi, then use *something* to convert it to mpeg-2, but I need control over the bitrate, so iDVD is out for me.

I thought DVD Studio Pro would let me do this, but somebody here told me "no."

What should I do?

Andy

[earlygrace]

Quicktime with the Mpeg2 plug in will do a good job that is what I use, it will give you a .M2v file and an AIFF and then use apack that comes with dvd studio pro to compress the audio file.
to bad quicktime did not do this for you, cause it estimates the file size you will get with the different bitrates but it does it with the uncompressed audio file. Does this make any sense, what ever.

Quicktime does it fairly quicky too, but it take over your whole system while it does it.

[drewson99]

if I create the m2v and aiff file this way can I burn them to a data dvd-r and take them to a PC to work on?

(am waiting for DVD Studio Pro to come in the mail)

Andy

ps -thanks for the reply

[geek rock]

doesn't the quicktime mpeg-2 plugin come with DVDSP? that's where i got it.

there is a free encoder called ffmpegx which will do the job, but it will take a lot longer than quicktime.

http://homepage.mac.com/major4/

-Mark

[geek rock]

and as for actually calculating the bitrate.. take a look at the bitrate calculator found on this very site.

btw you'll want your AC3 file to be 192-224kbps if it's a standard 2.0 track, which i'm sure it is.

-Mark

[earlygrace]

where on this site is the biterate calculator?

[galactica]

Strange! looks alot like another post where I suggested the same course of action!

oh well

ffmpegx also has a bitrate calculator built into it that works nicely.