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Okay you guys are a lot smarter than I regarding formats. All these different formats are enough to gray hair. How is it that commercial DVD's can look so crystal clear using 4.7 gigs? Do they have proprietary secret algorithms that we minions
can not access? What is "High Definition"? Is it everything above 280 lines?
I did find a solution for my 38 min slide show. I rendered in 1080I, 1920 mpeg2 and that yielded a mpg of 3.8 gigs. I then used Ashampoo Burning Suite to burn it to DVD. If you are familiar with that program you know that it will render to fit the loaded media. The rendered file is 4.6 gigs with DVD (sl) in the tray. (took 55 min to render) The quality is excellent with a subtle loss of grays when viewed on my 40". It was a bit of a hassle to insert chapters but I can live with that.
PD9 is a great program. Especially for the price. One should not expect the burning module to be any more than it is I suppose. I have not used any of CL's other related programs but I speculate that their burning suite can do what Ashampoo offers. I would prefer to stay in the PD9 program through the burning process but maybe that is something for the wish list forum (or my deeper understanding of PD9).
As an artist I prefer to spend my time in the right hemisphere of my brain. I gave up on that fantasy with my first digital audio project back in 1983. I use the 80/20 rule. 20% of my time is devoted to creativity, the rest to problem solving...
What other workarounds have you guys been using?
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Thank you for your response. I appreciate it.
My video consists of still images only plus music. I rendered in 1080I and burned in mpeg2, default profile, HQ. One track of images, 3 tracks of audio. 580 images, 38+ minutes long. The show was displayed on both a DLP projector with 1280 native resolution and an LCD 1080p. Both were fed by an upconverting DVD player via hdmi 1.4. The image appears to be (at the most) 480 lines. It may be less as the images appear quite jagged on the edges and blurry. I could burn it to blu ray but I am distributing copies and not everyone has a blu ray player.
Jaime-esque is incorrect. All commercial DVD movies are 1080I/24. Blue-ray movies are 1080P.
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I just finished performing a search in the forum for this topic with no results. Sorry if it is redundant. Please direct me to a thread if one exists:
I produced and rendered a project that is all still images and MP3's. I rendered it in Mpeg2/1080I. When I went to burn it to DVD in the same resolution I found it was 9+gigs in size. It is only a 37 min production. In Mpeg2/HQ it is 2.7 gigs. What can I do to shrink it so that it will fit on a single DVD(sl)? Resize my images? I compressed them already, setting the file size limit to 2K. Should I resize them as well? Do I dare redo/use a custom profile?
I know there is a solution. Especially since commercial 2 hour 1080I movies fit with room left over.
Thank you
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I am new to this forum but wanted to share some information with all the people having trouble with freezes/hangs when rendering.
I too had issues with both pd8 and pd9/64. I have 2 computers with pd9/64 on them. One is an amd 640/6gddr2, the other is a E6550/4gddr2. Both running W7. I use onboard graphics on the amd and had a basic pcie card in the other. Neither would render anything but mpeg 2 hq. I fiddled with settings for some time before deciding to buy a new card. I installed a GTS450 on the E6550 and configured it to handle everything. Now I can render in any format I choose without any freezes. I just completed a 400 slide project and used just about every effect in the menus.
In the forums I noticed many people using machines that are simply too old and outdated to give them what they want. Remember though, pay attention to what you buy. There are many "new" computers out there that will not do the job. Stay away from the bundles and bib box store bargains. Most of those machines have inferior motherboards and no room for expansion. Audio and video are the biggest challenges for computers. I don't care how great the software programmers are (Cyberlink, Adobe, etc), they cannot polish a turd.
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