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Buy a longer DV tape!
Authored by: funwithstuff on Jan 31, '03 05:05:40AM

Not sure what the situation is with NTSC DV, but in the UK and Australia you can buy 83 minute DV tapes. I know I've edited down to fit on one of those before. Just that little bit extra.

With regard to the DVD question, you could try Formac Devideon software. It only works if you have a Devideon superdrive, or perhaps (according to a Versiontracker comment) any Formac firewire device. It will allow you to tweak many of the same things as DVD Studio Pro, and also burns SVCDs. Rough edges ("Menu" shouldn't be spelt "Menue", obvious iDVD knockoff) but it should work. I haven't tested it.

Bear in mind, though, that squeezing a whole lot of video onto a DVD-R isn't going to look as good as the same length of footage on a commercial DVD. There's much more space to play with on a pressed DVD, and the compression is of better quality. Plus, viewers tend to get bored after much more than an hour. But good luck.



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Buy a longer DV tape!
Authored by: igstudio on Feb 03, '03 09:41:04AM

NTSC standard for MiniDV is 60 min (90 in extended play mode, which results in quality degradation).



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