Burning two DVDs...double-sided DVDs?

[Gordon B. Alley]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:23:43 +0800, Christopher SJ Ong <osj at mac.com> wrote:
>My thanks to everyone who has replied to my query about burning DVDs
>longer than 90 minutes. I guess I will just burn two DVDs, as advised.
>
>I wish Apple would remove the 90 minute limit. I know they have reasons
>- commercial (to get people to buy DVD Studio Pro) and ease of use (to
>avoid having users messing with compression levels and bitrates, etc),
>but it is rather ridiculous that my alternative is to stump out a huge
>amount of money for DVD Studio Pro. It's especially frustrating that
>the content I'm most interested in archiving - soccer matches - is just
>a few minutes longer than 90 minutes...
>
>One last question : what about double-sided DVDs? I could at least
>archive my content on ONE double-sided DVD if those work well, although
>I would still have to get up and flip the DVD over!

Hmmm. If it is just a few minutes longer than 90 minutes, you could 
try speeding it up a bit so that it would come in at under 90 
minutes. A small percentage speed-up probably wouldn't be noticeable.

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