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<div>On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:51:55 -0500, Brent Radbourne
<radbourne7144@rogers.com> wrote:</div>
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I would like to save more than 90 minutes to a DVD using iDVD3 but
90<br>
minutes seems to be the limit. If I could save the iMovie as a
disc<br>
image I could use DVD2oneX to compress the movie down to 4.4 gb.
But<br>
there doesn't seem to be a way. On the jewel box for the blank
dvd it<br>
says the capacity is 120 minutes at high density and a lot more and
the<br>
lower qualities, but how do you do it?<br>
<br>
Brent</blockquote>
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<div>Here's a link to a web page that describes a fairly complicated
way to do it:</div>
<div><http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/idvd.html></div>
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<div>Below I've included a copy of a post from Erica Sadun. It
describes a method for lowering the bit rate used to encode a project
in iDVD. If you try it, let us know how it worked! :-)</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">Date: Wed, 18 Jun
2003 12:50:18 -0600<br>
Message-Id: <a05200f00bb1662a19ae9@[10.0.0.2]><br>
From: "Erica Sadun" <erica@mindspring.com><br>
Subject: [MacDV] Did it. (Encoding iDVDs at a lower bitrate)<br>
<br>
So, out of curiousity, I decided to take a break from<br>
writing and see if I could make iDVD encode at the<br>
bitrate I desired.<br>
<br>
I edited the ProjectData file from the project (without<br>
iDVD running)<br>
<br>
<key>Bit Rate</key><br>
<dict><br>
<key>Is modifiable</key><br>
<string>1</string><br>
<key>Max value</key><br>
<string>9800000</string><br>
<key>Min value</key><br>
<string>2000000</string><br>
<key>Order</key><br>
<string>20</string><br>
<key>Property name</key><br>
<string>Bit Rate</string><br>
<key>Property persistent
name</key><br>
<string>Bit Rate</string><br>
<key>Property type</key><br>
<string>3</string><br>
<key>Value</key><br>
<string>2000000</string><br>
</dict><br>
<br>
I enabled background encoding, adding a short movie and<br>
sure enough, (after extracting the file from the project<br>
file MPEG folder):<br>
<br>
/Users/ericasadun/Desktop/MPEGS/try1.m2v<br>
Mpeg 2 Video File<br>
Estimated Duration: 06.15s<br>
Aspect ratio 4/3 (TV)<br>
Interlaced, chroma format: 4:2:0<br>
Video Format: NTSC<br>
Size [720 x 480] 29.97
fps 2.00 Mbps<br>
<br>
<br>
I got the 2.0 Mbps that I requested.<br>
<br>
-- Erica<br>
<br>
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<http://galley.home.texas.net></div>
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