I'm just curious. What encoding settings are you guys using?

1. Video-maniac
   Member

   
   This question is pretty much for all wedding videographers out there, but anyone else can jump in if you want to as well.
   
   This is really a two part question because both questions actually tie into each other.
   
   How much video in length (total time) do you your try and put on a disk before you take it to another disk <AND> what settings are you guys using when it comes to encoding your final projects to DVD disk? You know… like if you use VBR what is your target, high and low mbps settings or if you're using CBR, what do you set the mbps at? How many passes do you use? Maybe include the encoder you're using too.
   
   I'm curious more than anything else.
   
   I recently saw a wedding video from a friend of my wife's at her work (done by someone else) and while I thought the camera work, editing and content was very well done, they seemed to have crammed it all on 1 DVD. This video had a lot of artifacting going on if you looked closely. I'm sure the couple didn't notice it but I did only because this is an issue you have to contend with when doing this sort of thing.
   
   RAM

   Posted 5 years ago #

2. compusolver
   Member

   
   Rodney, you haven't been reading your Videomaker magazines!!
   
   Charlie Fulton wrote an excellent article - possibly the most useful article of the whole year - in the November 2006 issue, where he tackles this very issue. The article includes a chart and formulae showing just how much bitrate you can fit per length of video and/or how long a video you can have at certain bitrates. It even includes dual-layer DVDs!
   
   Your homework assignment for this evening is to find that issue and read it carefully! X-D
   
   As a side note - most of my weddings run 50 to 75 minutes and I do them at 7CBR with 48 PCM audio.
   
   Say - I'm trying to get a collection of other wedding videographers' work - send me a copy of that and I'll send you a copy back from another videographer. PS - I've paid hundreds of dollars for some of these "award winning" wedding videographers' work and have been tremendously under impressed.

   Posted 5 years ago #

3. Video-maniac
   Member

   
   Shame on me! :-//
   
   I have about 2 years worth of VM's on my bookshelf in my edit bay. I'll have to dig that one out. My problem is that I read so much much that I have a tendency to forget where I read these various articles.
   
   At any rate, I see that you encode at the same bitrate I do.
   
   Rodney,

   Posted 5 years ago #

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