well the apple Mpeg2 codec won't do the the job unless its pretty much mostly stills. adobe's mpeg2 compressor should do better, as well as some others. it really depends on the motion and content as to what you'll get. a 10 minute long test of actual program should give you a good idea of if it will work... and for compatibility stamped discs are the way to go. it never fails that if I have a problem, its always a sony DVD player...

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On Jul 30, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Andrius Simutis wrote:

For 250 minutes on a DVD9 your bit rate would be 4.1mbps for the video assuming you're using .ac3 for the audio.

That's pretty low for compressor even running VBR with a wide range, so you might want to run some test clips to make sure that what you're getting looks decent enough for the client.  

If you want to get the most out of Compressor (and you're doing this often enough to justify spending $800) I'd recommend the Cinemacraft CCE-MP plug in. It does a really nice job at the lower bit rates where Compressor often falls down.

-Andrius Simutis

On Jul 30, 2012, at 8:42 AM, Michael Hazarian wrote:

Yea, 250 minutes should be doable with mpeg2, particularly if there is a good amount of synthetic footage. I was just providing a bit of an aside.

Mike Hazarian

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