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I have a 5 hour documentary that i want to put on dvd and hand out to people. what is the most effecient and cost effective way to do it?

I have a 5 hour documentary that i want to put on dvd and hand out to people. what is the most effecient and cost effective way to do it?

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While I don't have any idea what there is now, having given up the making of DVDs when my last VHS tape was converted, I will say that getting 5 hours of video on to a DVD with any kind of decent resolution is going to be difficult. The MPEG-2/MP2 codec set used for DVD isn't particularly efficient about compression, so you may have to make some choices about audio and video that compromise your quality.

Back in the day I used Virtualdub to do the processing, TMPEGENC to do the MPEG2 encoding, and SpruceUp to do the authoring. While all of those still exist, they have a learning curve.

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yeah, i might have to look around at different formats, and which is best for what. im old enough to remember when converting audio to mp3 was a big deal, but i am lost these days.