PD8 - DVD Quality

RolandRock666

Newbie Location: Northampton, UK Joined: Dec 05, 2009 09:51 Messages: 5 Offline

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Jan 29, 2011 07:44

I have burned a 1hour 40min video in MPEG2 using smartfit but the quality is way short of original. Actual size is about 6.5GB in MPEG2, even bigger in AVCHD or Blu-Ray.

PD8 does not seem to support burning to dual layer disks. Is there a way round this, other than splitting and burning to 2 disks. How do commercial DVD makers get round this? Is an upgrade to PD9 the answer?

CubbyHouseFilms

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne, Australia Joined: Jul 14, 2009 04:23 Messages: 2208 Offline

Jan 29, 2011 16:34

Hi

Welcome to the forum

You could try the 8.5GB discs. I have had success in the past with projects over 4.7GB.

A tip is to 'burn to folder' and not to disc. Then use another burning program for the final 'burn'. I use Nero.

Or alternatively, split the project in half and burn to two discs.

Good luck Happing editing

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Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Jan 31, 2011 16:45

PowerDirector 8 Does burn 8.5 GB DVD disks.

You change the disk size in the Create Disk Module, Disk Preferences Tab.
Select DVD , Down Arrow for Disk Sizes.

Any way is it more reliable to Burn a Folder, then burn the Actual disk in Disk authoring Software.

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