Data Rate

[monkey boy]

I recently had to reformat my HD and had to reinstall all programs etc...

I have captured some VHS tapes to AVI and rendered to MPEG2 and when I went to burn them to DVD in DVDit!, the following message appeared:

"data rate of this file is too high for DVD, you must replace the file with one of a lower data rate"

It may sound like a stupid question, but I have no idea how to remedy this, am I still able to use these MPEGs?
How do i change my settings etc...

Any help would be appreciated!

M

[bugster]

I have captured some VHS tapes to AVI and rendered to MPEG2
M

Exactly how did you do this, what tools did you use with what settings etc.

For DVD an mpeg must be less than 9.8Mbit/s.

[monkey boy]

I am using Adobe premiere 6.5 and have a Pinnacle DV500 capture card
These are the details in the properties for one of the captures, nothing unusual there I thought, as it states that the average data rate is 3.61MB/s

File Size: 968.15MB bytes
Total Duration: 0:04:27:16
Average Data Rate: 3.61MB per second
Image Size: 720 x 576
Pixel Depth: 24 bits
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.067
Frame Rate: 25.00 fps

Audio: 48000 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo

File details:
Contains 1 video track(s) and 1 audio track(s).

Video track 1:
Total duration is 267.64 seconds
Size is 918.87M bytes (Minimum/average/maximum frame size = 140.63/140.63/140.63K bytes).
There are 6691 keyframes, 0 delta frame.
Frame rate is 25.00 fps
Frame size is 720 x 576
Depth is 24 bits.
Compressor:' Pinnacle Systems DV Codec'

Audio track 1:
Duration is 267.64 seconds
Size is 49.01M bytes
Rate is 48000 samples/sec, stereo
Sample size is 16 bits


M

[bugster]

DVDit is probably only looking at the header info which is often set to the max allowable and also often incorrectly interpreted. You could try using dvdpatcher to change the info in the mpeg header.

[monkey boy]

Thanks for all of your help Bugster, but I feel like an idiot.
when reformatting the HD all of the setting went awry, the data rate had defaulted to 15MB/s, have reset it
sometimes it's the simplest thing!
Thanks
M