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Crusty · #4 (**permalink**) 01-04-2006, 02:42 AM

Re: AVI - No, MPEG is fine if you're not doing anymore effects or titles. Take some care in setting the MPEG-2 parameters. If this is for the USA (or North America), you'll want 720x480 frame size, 29.97 fps, GoP of 18 or less (15 is the norm), 4:3 aspect ratio, the bit rate should be high but less than 9,600kbps, 8,000kbps is fine unless your video is much longer than an hour, then you need to go lower to fit it into the 4.3gigabyte limit of a single layer DVD. If you have the option, use two pass variable bit rate compression.

Your audio track also needs to be accounted for in your overall file size. LPCM uses the most space, easily 1,500kbps. If space is tight NeroVision can be set to use AC3 compression on the sound, this will save quite a bit of space, about 1,200kbps less.

If you intend to have chapter points in the DVD then in your video editing try to put in a fade-to-black and fade-from-black transitions at each place. This makes things much easier when setting the chapter points later in NeroVision. Crossfades are messy, since NeroVision will have to recompress at each chapter point to be sure there's an I-frame at the entry point. With black, the recompression distortion is harmless.