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