Smartfit is halfing the resolution of my DVD

tescosfinest

Newbie Joined: Jan 15, 2010 17:29 Messages: 19 Offline

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Jan 14, 2012 11:03

Hi there,

I have a 2hr 30min project which I hoped to burn as a 8.5GB DVD. At HQ - Best Quality, powerdirector reckons it'll be too big for the disc at 9715MB. The only other quality option is "Best fit", which I select, produce and burn with. However the quality is very poor, the resolution has been noticably dropped - the 'jaggies' are clearly visible to everyone. Looking at the vob files it seems the resolution has dropped to 352x576 instead of 720x576.

What I really wanted smartfit to do was just drop the bitrate a little, not the resolution.

Unfortunately this is a wedding video, so I can't really just cut out 30 minutes of footage to make it fit. Anyway it seems incredible that I can't burn a 2:30 video to a dual layer disc.

Why can't I control the bitrate manually like I can under "Produce"?

Any help would be really appreciated!

Andrew

PlaySound

Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline

Jan 14, 2012 12:35

I think PD has no way to change this, what I do here, save in MPEG2 file in Producer, and then mount the DVD in another software.

tescosfinest

Newbie Joined: Jan 15, 2010 17:29 Messages: 19 Offline

Jan 14, 2012 16:15

Thanks playsound - what about the disc menus though? What software do you use to create the DVD?

Carl312

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

Jan 14, 2012 17:17

You can use Playsound's suggestion and produce a MPEG2 HQ video.

Once that video is produced, remove everything you have on the timeline and replace with the produced mpeg 2 video.

Add your chapters and subtitles if you had them in the first project. Then Create Disk, choose the menu you want as before.

There is a good chance that the disk size estimate will be more accurate, and will now burn the 8.5 GB disk. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

PlaySound

Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline

Jan 15, 2012 08:36

Quote: Thanks playsound - what about the disc menus though? What software do you use to create the DVD?

Cyberlink Power2Go is the, I do not know yet.
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