Putting more than one hour of video on a DVD-R
03-11-2005, 05:03 PM
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Putting more than one hour of video on a DVD-R
Here's a little trick I use to get more than one hour of video on to a standard DVD-R.
Whatever software you are using to render and burn your video to DVD-R, see if it allows you to render your DVD ready video to a folder on your hard disk, instead of burning it directly to a DVD-R. If so, do it.
Once the video has been rendered to a folder on your hard disk, use [link=http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html]DVD-Shrink[/link] to reduce the size of the video in the folder and copy it to another folder on your hard disk. (DVD-Shrink has an mode that automatically calculates how much to shrink the video. Very easy to use program. And it is free!)
Finally, use any burning software that can burn a DVD-R from an already prepared folder on your hard disk, such as Nero Burning ROM, to burn the reduced size video from the second folder.
It's a lengthy process, because you are rendering the video twice, but the results speak for themselves. I have jammed as much as 3 hours of video on to a standard 1 hour DVD-R with almost no discernable loss of quality. (Most of our amatuer video is not the greatest quality to begin with.
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Have fun!
...jim
Whatever software you are using to render and burn your video to DVD-R, see if it allows you to render your DVD ready video to a folder on your hard disk, instead of burning it directly to a DVD-R. If so, do it.
Once the video has been rendered to a folder on your hard disk, use [link=http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html]DVD-Shrink[/link] to reduce the size of the video in the folder and copy it to another folder on your hard disk. (DVD-Shrink has an mode that automatically calculates how much to shrink the video. Very easy to use program. And it is free!)
Finally, use any burning software that can burn a DVD-R from an already prepared folder on your hard disk, such as Nero Burning ROM, to burn the reduced size video from the second folder.
It's a lengthy process, because you are rendering the video twice, but the results speak for themselves. I have jammed as much as 3 hours of video on to a standard 1 hour DVD-R with almost no discernable loss of quality. (Most of our amatuer video is not the greatest quality to begin with.
)Have fun!
...jim
05-08-2005, 03:38 AM
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RE: Putting more than one hour of video on a DVD-R
If you use a kvcd template and do half DVD resolution, you can get 9+ hours on one disk, if you do VCD on DVD you can get 12+ hours on one DVD :O
And that is DVD5, double it for DVD9 :O :O :O
And that is DVD5, double it for DVD9 :O :O :O
06-16-2005, 10:31 AM
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RE: Putting more than one hour of video on a DVD-R
If I want < an 1 1/2 hours of video on a disk I just drag it to iDVD and hit burn ;-) 
