Lowest Bitrate.

[Haku]

OK, once i ahve hdd cleaned up so i have space im gonna give the big 3 ago as i already use CCE.

Just wanted your opinions on something.

Whats the lowest average bitrate you will use for a movie when encoding with CCE.??

I would say not really much lower than 4mb.

[andkiich]

For a DVD?

Depending on resolution and the original source, I've gotten away with bitrates as low as 2700 without too much issue.

Low res being half D1 - got about 3 1/2 hours on one DVD+R.

[garryheather]

I've seen animation look pretty good as low as the 2.5Mb/s mark on DVD. It depends a lot on the content - typically animation contains a lot of solid colour, clearly defined outlines and very little background movement.

If you've got an action movie or something with say a lot of water in it where a lot of the picture content moves all the time, a similar bitrate will look like the scene was made out of Lego building bricks...

[poopyhead]

usually, lower bitrates can be balanced by multi-pass VBR....ppl have gotten great results with 4 - 5 passes.

[energy80s]

I usually use CQ coding with 8000 max and 4000 min with TMPG. I would sometimes drop the minimum down to 3000 but don't recommend it for full D1, for half D1 drop the rates x2 (ie. 4000 max. 2000 min).