length of a movie
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jkleinman
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What is the ideal length of a DVD? Does it depend on the media I will use to burn it? I don’t want to spend hours editing if it is going to be too long. Thanks. This stuff is great! |
joshuaaikens
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First, the standard home burned DVD holds 4.7 Gigabytes. There are duel layer DVDs that do double that and Blue-ray discs that hold 50GB but these are very new and not as popular for home users as the standard DVD-R or DVD+R media. So to your second question I would say, yes it depends on the media sort of. All standard DVDs, which are the ones you are probably using, hold the same amount of stuff. Now to your first question, A good rule of thumb is not to exceed 2 hours of video on a single DVD. You can probably get up to 4 hours on a DVD but it would have to be very compressed and might show a reduction in the quality of the video, especially in scenes with lots of action and movement. |