[MacDV] Re: iLife4

Erica Sadun erica at mindspring.com
Sun Jan 11 20:22:41 PST 2004


>on 1/11/04 2:41 PM, Macintosh Digital Video List at
>MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com was molecularly re-engineered thru the
>vastness of space and could only say:
>
>>  I'm guessing they moved the encoding rate down to 4Mbps for the 2
>>  hour DVD. Currently in iDVD3, the rates are 8Mbps for 1 hour and
>>  5 Mbps for 90 minutes.
>>
>>  Keep in mind that some players choke at the 1 hour 8Mbps rate,
>>  so sometimes it helps to lower the bitrate when you burn your
>>  DVDs.
>>
>>  -- Erica
>
>If I'm using iDVD 3 to create my DVDs, how can I lower the bitrate to
>either: (a) improve player compatibility or (b) produce longer length DVDs
>(i.e. 90 minutes or greater)?
>

Add extra material until you've got more than 60 minutes.
Then delete the extra material.

-- Erica



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