Converting a 72 min NTSC DVD to video file under 500 MB (URGENT!)

[Salva Veritate]

I promised some people a Rage Against the Machine video under 500 MB with decent quality. I put it off for a few days and found that I can't convert without a huge loss in quality. But I found another similar length video in decent quality but 441 MB .avi file. What program is best or this?

Now, before I go on, here's the results of the stuff I tried myself:

VirtualDub - no clue how to make files smaller (just saved a 5 minute slice of the video, 4 GB file)
Adobe Premiere - too complicated for me
Blaze Media Pro - crashes
Windows Movie Maker - crashes
VideoWave 9/Roxio Easy Media Creator - "small" .avi files are over 10 GB
Nero Recode - only produces mp4 apparently, low quality
WinAVI Video Converter - "Access Violation at address 00000000, read of address 00000000" (verbatim)

Other regular converting programs don't have options for filesize, and spit them out 700+ MB.

Suggestions for the best way to produce a <500 MB video file that's decent quality (read: not visibly blocky at 320x240)?

[45tripp]

and your source is?

use gspot to help you get source info

[edDV]

Easy, blame the machine.

Rage on!

[Salva Veritate]

Source is 4:3 NTSC DVD (.vob)
MPEG-2
10080 kb/s VBR
29.97 fps
720x480

[Salva Veritate]

Easy, blame the machine.

Rage on!

I AM blaming the machine!

[manono]

Feed the VOB into AutoGK, fill in the final size, and let it go to work. However, often music/concert videos are very difficult to compress. They are usually interlaced, shot with handheld cameras, and have all kinds of flashing lights and other stuff going on. But AutoGK will do a much better job than you ever will.

[SCDVD]

Fair Use Wizard does a good job converting to XVID files.

[45tripp]

sorry, didn't really see title

Use Vdubmod.

Ideally.
Download DGindex and avisynth.
Load DVD video into DGindex.
Create d2v file.
Load d2v with mpeg2source in avisynth.
resize in avisynth. Other filtering

Download Xvid codec.

Import avs file into vdubmod.

Under video is 'compression'
set it to xvid.
Configure xvid.
Set bitrate to 7-800.

Encode

You can import vobs to vdubmod, but one at a time.
then you'd append the encoded parts.


edit:
AutoGk yes.
falling asleep...

[Salva Veritate]

Alright, I'll try all those suggestions. Thanks guys!

[Salva Veritate]

One quick thing: using AutoGK, how can I make one video out of all 5 .vob files? Is there a way to encode them all together?

[Jeremiah58]

I promised some people a Rage Against the Machine video under 500 MB with decent quality... What program is best for this?

I would try Nero Recode again.
Since the compression is intense, it should be set to 2-pass under Advanced settings.
The resulting mp4 file, can be converted to avi in a few minutes with Mp4Cam2AVI, without quality loss.

[45tripp]

load the ifo

[Noahtuck]

Fair Use Wizard does a good job converting to XVID files.

What he said.... rip dvd to image file, open in Fair Use Wizard, set options, let run overnight .
Work's great and look's great.

[manono]

load the ifo

Yeah, I thought it was only 1 VOB. Sorry. Load the IFO.

[Salva Veritate]

Alright, I used the AutoGK method to do that one video, but I'll try the other ways to see if they turn out better. Thanks so much you guys!

If anyone's interested, you can take this in return for helping me out:

Rage Against the Machine: Live at the Electric Factory 8/13/1996

01. Know Your Enemy
02. Bulls On Parade
03. Vietnow
04. Without A Face
05. Fistful Of Steel
06. Snakecharmer
07. Bombtrack
08. Down Rodeo
09. Bullet In The Head
10. People Of The Sun
11. Killing In The Name
12. Wind Below
13. Jam
14. Freedom

72 minutes

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FL8HTB7L

Note: this isn't an official release so it's 100% legal, if that's an issue with the mods.