At 12:11 PM -0600 12/25/03, Mark M. Florida wrote: >On 12/25/03 10:46 AM, "Erica Sadun" <erica at mindspring.com> wrote: > > > At 6:08 AM -0600 12/25/03, R B Williams wrote: > >> 1) I've seen postings about the point where the iMovie >>> program downgrades quality in order to fit on a DVD (an >>> hour?) I don't want to hit that wall. How do I know where >>> that moment is? Length, size, what??? >> >> DVDs *always* downgrade quality. It's the standard > > MPEG-2 compression. > >I think the main issue was the point at which iDVD goes into "90 minute >mode" and lowers the bit rate to squeeze in the extra 30 minutes. From my >experience, and from what I've read and heard elsewhere, even iDVD's 90 >minute mode is pretty good quality -- unless the source footage is super >grainy with lots of crazy camera movements, in which case you may get some >excessive MPEG artifacting... You're talking to someone who regularly puts 4 and 6 hours of video on each DVD. -- Erica