<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 19, 2006, at 7:28 PM, carlian wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Your advice(s) would be appreciated.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Thanks to those that responded to my earlier queries this week.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Ian Tucker,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Adelaide</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>For export to DVD Studio Pro, you want to use Mpeg2, otherwise you are dooming your footage to double encoding.</DIV><DIV>You have too consider your run time, menu requirements and size of a given (single/double layer) DVD and take a </DIV><DIV>little time adjusting the data rate accordingly.</DIV><DIV>You can use compressor to do this or "export using quicktime conversion" choose mpeg2 and use all the options available right there from the export panel.</DIV><DIV>Jim</DIV></BODY></HTML>