multiple AVI to DVD, Canopus / CCE SP2

[desiac]

Hi all,

wondering if someone can help me out, been using VSO's ConvertX'to'DVD for quite a while, cant really fault it, other than the loss in quality, while the loss is small thought i'd try out some alternatives.

Been playing round with Canopus Procoder2 / CCE SP2, looks like a good package but having difficulties driving it. Basically trien 2 convert multiple AVI's into single dvd, eg 8 x 20min episodes per dvd. easily fit in VSO, yet when i stich the same number of files together in Procoder it wants the result to be 12 GB?? Wondering if anyone has seen a guide floating round somewhere? or maybe some settings i should be looking at.

appreciate the help

thnx

[redwudz]

OK, 2 hours and 40 minutes of video would result in a bitrate of 3582 Kbps for a DVD-5. Not the best, but usable. Any lower and I would use 1/2 D1 DVD format. Since the source is Xvid, it's likely not that good to start with. If you ended up with a 12GB file, you didn't set the bitrate properly. See 'WHAT IS' DVD to the upper left for the DVD spec.

Use a bitrate calculator as I did to find the bitrate. You take the total running time of your videos and input them, using a regular DVD-5 for the size, about 4.37 GB. Bitrate VS size is pretty well a fixed number. You can reduce bitrate and quality to make the file smaller. 1/2 D1 makes better use of low bitrates when your calculated bitrate is low.

Bitrate calculators are available in 'Tools' to the left. With CCE, you may want to make a 3 pass encode if you are using lower bitrates. For guides, just go the 'CONVERT' guide page and input your encoder program in 'Search guides by Tool'.