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Building the movie on DVD is simple these days, but getting the best looking film is such a pain! Unfortunately, it’s still safer to send a DVD rather than a Blu-Ray even though it looks subpar. So our film is 89 minutes and you can pick a setting in Compressor 4.1 for DVDs and it will build a disc, but I found the quality to be subpar. After messing around with the settings and letting it build 6 different verisons of the movie (which took all day BTW!), you can get your film to look pretty darn good.<\/p>\n

The custom setting I ended up going with for our 89min feature was this one:
\nCBR (BEST) 6.5<\/p>\n

The disc ended up being 4.37GB + the audio of 129MB for a total of around 4.38GB which is really good. DVDs have a ceiling of 4.4GB. The first disc I built using Compressor’s default settings was only 3.3GB. That’s 1GB less data of on the TV and it really showed.<\/p>\n

You might say, “why not use VBR (Variable Bit Rate)? Isn’t it supposed to be better?”\u00a0 I did try a few of these out… 1 pass and 2 pass versions and found the CBR was better. I think if our film had more chopity chop action it would have made more of a difference and I would’ve used VBR.<\/p>\n

You might also say “why not using a higher encode like 7.5Mbps?” This can be tricky. It will play back fine on a computer, but some DVD players will choke. I gleaned most of the compressing info from Larry Jordan<\/a> who’s a king at this stuff.<\/p>\n

He says the following:<\/p>\n

So, to make sure that your DVDs will burn properly:<\/p>\n

1) Set your average bit rate between 4.0 Mbps and 6.5 Mbps. (The lower the number, the more video you can squeeze onto your DVD. 4.0 Mbps should allow a little more than 2 hours of video.)<\/p>\n

2) Make sure your peak bit-rate doesn\u2019t exceed 7.5 Mbps. 7.0 Mbps is better. (I use 7.2.) This makes sure you have enough head-room to compress active scenes without creating so much data that computers or older DVD players can\u2019t keep up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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