[MacDV] iDVD3: encoding hack?

James Asherman jimash at optonline.net
Wed Sep 10 18:27:30 PDT 2003


On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 09:25 PM, Fabian Ius wrote:

> I have a 65 minute iMovie which I hope to use in iDVD3's "60 minute" 
> mode.
>
> I remember others mentioning to hack the ProjectData file in TextEdit,
> I cannot locate the part of the ProjectData file (it is huge) that 
> allows me to alter the setting nor the emails that others have shared 
> to specifically do this.
>
> I know iDVD encodes "60 minutes or less" movies at 8mbs, and I am 
> hoping that I can lower this bitrate slightly for my 65 minute movie 
> or perhaps use the 90 minute mode (5 mbs) but raise the encoding rate 
> to get better quality for this length of movie.
>
>
> Thank you kindly !
>
>
>


I had a 62 minute movie and just let it do the 90 minute mode. It 
looked great.
Jim



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