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video Quality

achilles23
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Mar 30, 2006, 11:42 PM

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When I edit my videos in Final Cut express on my mac and export the video to quicktime, then place it in iDVD, it seems that the finished product on the dvd doesn't look as well as it did on my monitor. I know my computer monitor (from apple) is much higher quality then my t.v. but even when I play the finished dvd on my computer, it doesn't look as well. Is it something about exporting to a quicktime movie that deteriorates my videos or is it that i'm using iDVD? Also my videos usually run about an hour and a half to two hours long. Any help?
Thanks!

videobear
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Mar 31, 2006, 9:52 AM

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You're trying to put too much video on one DVD. Your edited video is transcoded to a format called MPEG2. MPEG2 is a variable bitrate format. If you use higher bitrates, you get better quality, but can put less video onto a DVD. Lower bitrates allow more minutes of video, but at the expense of quality. One to one and a half hours is about the most you can expect to put onto a single DVD without introducing much visible degradation.

Regards,
Doug Graham
Panda Productions