[MikeD]

iDVD claims only 1.5 hours. How many hours can I put on a DVD using DVD Studio Pro?

Mike

[lucylawless]

The option goes down to 1.0 (MB / minute? doesn't say what units) and up to 9.8. I believe I calculated it out once that at the lowest bitrate (this is really really poor quality) you can get about 6 hours on a 4.3 (4.7)GB disk. With VHS quality I'd estimate about 4 hours on one disk
HTH

[MikeD]

So it depends on how you want it output (bitrate). And I take it iDVD only does it one way where you can only fit 1.5 hours on it? Whereas DVD studio pro gives you flexibility?

[Eug]

DVD Studio Pro doesn't encode MPEG2 video at all. To use any sort of video for DVD Studio Pro, it has to already have been encoded before DVD Studio Pro will even recognize it. Thus, in a way you could say it's flexible for bitrates, in that the bitrate at which the movie is coded is wholly up to you.

Fortunately, DVD Studio Pro gives you a licence for the QuickTime Pro MPEG 2 encoder plug-in.

[Paul S]

I've gotten DVDs up to 3 hours of video at what I condsider to be acceptable quality. That's also using A.Pack for the audio with a 2 channel setup encoding at 256k. Video was at 3.1.