DVD Conversion

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Dec 08, 2013 22:57

I shot all my video with a Sony handycam AVCHD in 1080P. When i edited the video in PD i saved it in the highest possible quality settings and i love it. It looks great. But...

Its in .mpg format and is 6.7GB and 37 minutes long. I cant burn it or convert it to DVD without ruining the quality. Every single converter i have tried has dropped the size to 2 or less GB. Even the PD DVD burner does this.

My question is how can i burn this HQ .mpg movie to a playable DVD in normal DVD players and maximize the use of a 4.7GB DVD? I bought and tried DVD-R-DL but my burner isnt hapy with DL. So im on basic 4.7GB DVD-R's.

I honestly feel like the quality should be decent at 4.7GB?? What do you think. Thanks.

CubbyHouseFilms

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Dec 09, 2013 05:38

Quote: I shot all my video with a Sony handycam AVCHD in 1080P. When i edited the video in PD i saved it in the highest possible quality settings and i love it. It looks great. But...
Its in .mpg format and is 6.7GB and 37 minutes long. I cant burn it or convert it to DVD without ruining the quality. Every single converter i have tried has dropped the size to 2 or less GB. Even the PD DVD burner does this.
My question is how can i burn this HQ .mpg movie to a playable DVD in normal DVD players and maximize the use of a 4.7GB DVD? I bought and tried DVD-R-DL but my burner isnt hapy with DL. So im on basic 4.7GB DVD-R's.
I honestly feel like the quality should be decent at 4.7GB?? What do you think. Thanks.

Hi

You probably know that you will drastically lose quality by burning a 1080P HD movie onto a SD DVD which will reduce the quality to 720x576.

If you still want to use DVDs try the dual layer 8.5GB ones, there are loads on Ebay, Amazon etc.

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Carl312

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Dec 09, 2013 17:58

You may be able to burn a AVCHD 8.5 GB DVD and keep the quality.

But, you can only play a AVCHD disk in a BluRay Player that supports AVCHD. (not all Bluray players do).

AVCHD disk will not play in a standard DVD player.

High definition Disk is BluRay. And only plays in BluRay players.

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James1

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Dec 09, 2013 19:44

Hi,
My suggestion if you are limited to 4.7 Gb DVDs is to break the video in two at an appropriate spot insert an image (or instructions at the last frame of First production and produce that. then take the last (half or whatever you trimmed) and burn to second DVD.
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