iDVD: How many actual minutes of video per DVD?
I just bought a digital camcorder, so I'm using iMovie (2.1.6) and iDVD (2.1) for the first time. My first project, mostly for practice, has been to transfer a favorite movie from VHS to DVD. The box for the movie says that it's 91 minutes long, so I figured I could just edit the credits a little bit.
However, once I got it all into iMovie, I find that it's almost 94 minutes long. I would have to delete both beginning and end credits to get under 90 minutes. I would rather not do that.
So, does anyone know the actual number of minutes of video that I can burn onto a DVD? Is it 90 minutes exactly?
I don't want to waste a blank DVD just by seeing what happens, so I thought I would ask here first. Thanks for your help.
JP
However, once I got it all into iMovie, I find that it's almost 94 minutes long. I would have to delete both beginning and end credits to get under 90 minutes. I would rather not do that.
So, does anyone know the actual number of minutes of video that I can burn onto a DVD? Is it 90 minutes exactly?
I don't want to waste a blank DVD just by seeing what happens, so I thought I would ask here first. Thanks for your help.
JP
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iDVD uses a simple MPEG2 compression (it's a constant rate, not a dynamically changing one), and therefore is limited to the size of the DVD-R. In other words, in can only burn XX minutes on a given size DVD.
If iDVD says it's 90 minutes, then that's pretty much it. I haven't burned more than 46 minutes, so I can vouch for this, but I think you're out of luck.
You could try making an VR MPEG2 out of it (using something other than iDVD-- try homepage.mac.com/rnc/), and then using Toast to make the DVD. Making it a variable rate MPEG2 would make the file smaller, theoretically fitting on the DVD.
<strong>Well, it says 90- but I can only get 60 on it, why?</strong><hr></blockquote>
hmmm...
The old version 1.0 could only do 60 minutes.
I did a quick Google on this, and it seems that iDVD likes to do 60 minutes with good quality. If it goes to 90 minutes, the quality goes down, but it'll do it.
I don't have v2.x, so maybe there's some magic Big Red Checkbox in the Prefs somewhere that you could check. It should be possible.
Originally posted by applenut
not enough
too much?
Thanks!
That makes windows no restrictions
Better use a virtualized windows and see the benefits.