DVD Length

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I'm going on vacation soon, and I am going to need to make a television-playable DVD of the home movies we make on vacation to show off to my relatives. It is probably going to be longer than 120 min, and thus I am going to need to be able to make the DVD play longer. I know that I can do this (similar to how tape speed works with dubbing a VHS tape,) however, I am not sure how. My parents do have Nero, and we always use it when working with the video from our camera. How can I increase the amount of time recordable to the Videodisc? I realize that it would be at a loss for quality, but its just going to be embarrassing footage of my family anyways

Thanks!!

You need to lower the total bitrate to about 5 Mbps. I think newer version of Nero also has a fit to disc setting.

honest and blunt response: My brother got married and I think the lenght of the video is like 20-30 minutes. And honestly I haven't seen it in one sitting.

Having to sit through TWO hours of a "family vacations video" will make your family hang you. Make a 20 or maybe a 30 min EDITEDversion and show that.

Also have a longer version and give it to your grandparents.
Maybe they'll see it.


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Haha, that is the most awesome response ever

Seriously, though, I'm just following my parent's orders. I doubt anyone will ever see it =P

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I was expecting a more rude answer

make a 30 minute one, they will appreciate the detail

You're probably absolutely right. I'll try to convince my parents, but just for reference's sake like if I ever needed to do it for another reason (I'm a trainspotter,) its just resetting the bitrate?

I have a DVD recorder that works like a VCR on the TV with no computer needed.
It has the 2,4,6,8 hour recording speeds to choose with a remote control button.
My digital camera has video output so no problem.

It would waste more than a week to make such a long movie on a Windows computer I think,
and I know it would come out worse than just using a DVD recorder because Windows never
does what it's supposed to do. Probably garble up the movie with stupid bug updates and then
make a coaster out of every odd copy.

For linux, look up kdenlive. avidemux is useful for assembling chunks as well, though I am not sure it writes to dvd.

These things are likely available for windows as well as they are open source.