Video Compression

[KCauldwell]

I am trying to make a one hour video in the highest quality possible but i am running into a few problems. When i finished editing my movie, it was 23GB in size. What options do i have to compress that to fit on a dvd and still have high quality. i just purchased a canon xl2 camera and love the film quality it produces but it doesn't mean anything if you can't put that on a dvd. Please Help.:)
thanks,
Kurt

[ATR]

I am not sure if this is an answer or a lot of questions.....but until the pros get here....

I am a recent user of Premiere Elements 2.0 and read everything that I can on the topic. My basic understanding is that the larger the video, the greater the compression needed to fit the video file into a 4.7 GB DVD disc, most likely a decrease quality. In Premiere Elements 2.0 the defining compression here would be the compression standard MPEG 2 which seems to be used widely for this sort of thing.

This is my answer/question. You refer to problems encountered, but do not specify. If you have a DVD burner that supports dual layer burning, have you tried this. If so, did the additional space on the disc help to improve quality over the use of the 4.7 GB DVD?

ATR

[javier]

If I understand correctly all you have done so far is capture and edit your video, please excuse me if I am mistaken,you still need to export it once you do that it will reduce the size of the file, just to be on the safe side when you export dn't burn your video directly to DVD export to folder and see if the size of the file is small enough if not you can always use a different app to shrink it I use DVD Shrink you can find this app and many others and a lot of info on video and audio at a site called videohelp.com, hope this helps

[Chuck Engels]

When thinking of video on DVD, and quality, you need to think in terms of time rather than size. All video will be compressed when put on DVD, how much will determine the quality, the less compression the better obviously.

You can plan on high quality video taking 1 hour per single layer DVD, 2 hours for a dual layer DVD. At 13gb per hour, you have about 2 hours worth of video to put on a DVD. To get the best possible quality you will need to put that on a dual layer DVD or spread the video out over 2 single layer DVDs.