QUICKEST setup for burning to DVD?

[babina]

I have been playing with the compression formats for days now, and cannot seem to find one that will let me dump to DVD in a "quick" fashion. I have tried TMPG, but no matter what the source format is, it seems to take forever to create the output file to burn to DVD.... Is there a compression setup I can use that, when run through TMPG, will take like seconds or minutes to create? It seems that TMPG decompresses the video and recompresses it no matter what I choose.

I have tried the "DVD Read" options, and also tried creating my own option using 720x480 44/22, still no luck. It is so frustrating to have to re-encode a show to burn it to DVD.

Any suggestions for a compression setup and program to use so that it won't take forever?

Thanks
-John

[crush157]

Best thing todo is use a DVD compatible setup in Beyond TV (it seems like you already have that) and then use DVD authoring software such as TPMGenc's DVD Author, which does not re-encode. I can usually do this with editing commercials out in about 15minutes (edit, setup dvd menu from templates and write vob files to disk for burning). Then it's just a matter of burning and the speed depends on your writer.

[RobertH]

I record:
res: 720x480
bitrate: VBR 5-9Mbs
audio: 48khz @ 192kbs

more specifically:


Useing TMPGDVDAuthor (newest one on their site as of january) load up 3 hour long shows in it, then run thru and cut the commercials, setup menus, and have it render (ignoring any errors about size/length), on my 1.8 this process takes a total of about 10-15 minutes to render and about 30 minutes for me to cut the commercials out (longer if doing editing over the network).

Once tmgdvd author is done i take its output and load it up in dvdshrink, then use dvd shrink to take the video and squeeze it down to fit on a dvd-r. It takes it anywhere from 20-40 minutes depending on howmuch over I went on the size of the disk in dvd author. once it is done it ejects the tray on the dvd burner and i drop in a blank, at 4x the drive finishes in about 15-20 minutes

Without using dvd shrink I can only get about 2 hours of video on a disk at a fairly good quality, with dvd shrink i can get about 3 1/2 hours without sacraficing too much.

In order for dvd shrink to be able to burn you have to have nero 6 installed on the system

[RobertH]

yeah but for some reason or another (probably my crappy 4x iomagic burner) the one in dvd author doesnt like burning and will 9 times out of 10 cause a bad disk or it will magically burn and then the drive will no longer appear in my computer or any other burning software until the system is rebooted its like the only burning software that has had an issue with that drive.

but hey you get what you pay for right, at 99$ it was a pretty good deal and it burns cds at 40x, sure beats my old 8x cd burner