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Smartfit is halfing the resolution of my DVD
tescosfinest [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jan 15, 2010 17:29 Messages: 19 Offline
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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
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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 [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jan 15, 2010 17:29 Messages: 19 Offline
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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
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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.

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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.
I use Nero Vision 6 because he did not render the video that is already in MPEG2 compatible with DVD, similar to SVRT3, beyond accepting videos mode interlaced and progressive, PD only makes Interlaced DVD. AMD-FX 8350 / 8GB DDR3
SSD SUV400S37240G / 2-HD WD 1TB
AMD Radeon R9 270 / AOC M2470SWD
Windows 7-64 / PD16 Ultimate
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