My client wants me to put 120 minutes of video on a single DVD-R which means I'm limited to an average video bitrate around 5000kbit/sec. I only just purchased Vegas+DVD, but in my previous experience I have found you need to use temporal filtering to get decent results from MPEG encoders at this bitrate. (Used correctly, these filters remove some random noise, with minimal damage to the real image). As far as I can tell, Vegas 4 does not offer any kind of temporal filtering either in the main editor or the MPEG2 export function. Am I stuck with external stand-alone encoders or external filters to do this task? A program like Virtual Dub works fine, and is even free (www.virtualdub.org), I'm just surprised a $600 program doesn't have this built-in. Thanks for any tips.
DVD encoding at low bitrates
john-beale
wrote on 3/4/2003, 5:09 PM