Size in GB of clips

Scott1234

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Aug 14, 2020 15:21

I am BRAND new to video editing and recently bought (and updated!) PowerDirector 15. I have captured all my old VHS tapes, some dating back to 1983, and my intention is to burn clips to DVDs in chronological order. My understanding is a DVD will only hold 4.7GB unless it's a dual layer and I don't want to go there.

Here's my question: since I am going to try to use as few DVDs as possible how can I tell how big, in GBs, a clip is? Do I right-click and check under Properties? Can I just right-click a clip on the timeline and get this information?

Also if anyone has undertaken a project like this before any tips or help you offer up will be much appreciated. What I want the end product to be is a DVD with a working menu and scene selection available.

Thanks to all in advance.

JL_JL

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Aug 14, 2020 15:55

Quote I am BRAND new to video editing and recently bought (and updated!) PowerDirector 15. I have captured all my old VHS tapes, some dating back to 1983, and my intention is to burn clips to DVDs in chronological order. My understanding is a DVD will only hold 4.7GB unless it's a dual layer and I don't want to go there.

Here's my question: since I am going to try to use as few DVDs as possible how can I tell how big, in GBs, a clip is? Do I right-click and check under Properties? Can I just right-click a clip on the timeline and get this information?

Also if anyone has undertaken a project like this before any tips or help you offer up will be much appreciated. What I want the end product to be is a DVD with a working menu and scene selection available.

Thanks to all in advance.

To maintain the best quality permissible for a DVD, the time duration is about 1hr for single 4.7GB disc.

One can't go by clip size, if it’s a very high quality clip at high bitrates, it would need to be down sampled to be DVD compliant, hence the guide in hrs. A 8.5GB DVD will hold about 2 hrs.

Jeff

tomasc

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Aug 14, 2020 22:52

JL suggestion for HQ is what I would use if the source is DV, D8, Hi8, and Svhs. If your source is none of this then SP for 2.2 hours, or EP for 3+ hours, or smartfit for more hours may be what you want for low quality vhs. You can burn short videos on rewritable DVDs like DVD+-RW to test for acceptable quality with the fewest discs possible. Adding menus and chapters will take away some of the maximum video time on discs.