burning with Nero Vision

[drpp]

Hello. I recorded a cartoon from tv onto my camcorder, I then edited all the commercials out with Adobe Premiere and encoded it as a MPEG-DVD, which created a .m2v file and a .wav file. The 20 minute cartoon is now a total of 700 megs, the non audio m2v file is 500 and the .wav is 200 megs.

I then added the m2v file to Nero Vision and I am trying to burn it. Its going really slow while it is 'transcoding'. I thought encoding it as a MPEG-DVD in Premiere would prevent me from waiting for it to transcode when I burn it?

Also, is it normal for a 20 minute cartoon to be 700 megs? Is there a way to make it smaller without hurting the quality so I can put alot of cartoons on one DVD movie

Thanks

[redwudz]

If it is DVD compliant, it shouldn't need to be re-encoded. See 'What is' DVD to the upper left for the DVD specs. You can reduce the audio size considerably and make it more DVD compliant by using a program like ffmpeggui to convert the audio to AC3. If the video and audio are DVD compliant, you just need to author it, not re-encode it. You might try a different program like TMPGEnc DVD Author or the freeware DVDAuthorgui for that.

The size of the MPEG-2 file depends on the bitrate used. You can use a bitrate calculator to see the bitrate needed to get the size of MPEG-2 you want. There are several bitrate calculators in 'Tools' to the left. As far as quality, you are the only judge of that. Try a sample clip of 5 minutes at different bitrates and see how it looks. Cartoons should be able to tolerate a fairly low bitrate without much quality loss.

[MOVIEGEEK]

What version of NeroVision are you using?Make sure you enable SmartEncoding in video options.
I would reduce the video bitrate and use the AC3 plugin($20USD) to make the output smaller.

[Baldrick]

Use something else for dvd authoring like tda. Nero Vision may be a good all-in-one solution but not for already prepared dvd mpgs.

And this is not any dvd to dvdr backuping. Moving you.

[Baldrick]

3 answers the same minute!!!