If it has between 1 and 2 hours of video (for a single-layer disc), choose High Quality. If your project has an hour or less of video (for a single-layer disc), choose Best Performance. You can use the amount of video in your project as a rough determination of which method to choose. In both cases the maximum length includes titles, transitions and effects etc. Because Professional Quality encoding is time-consuming (requiring about twice as much time to encode a project as the High Quality option, for example) choose it only if you are not concerned about the time taken. You can select this option regardless of your project’s duration (up to 2 hours of video for a single-layer disc and 4 hours for a double-layer disc). The second pass then encodes those different parts accordingly), resulting in the best quality of video possible on your burned DVD.
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Professional Quality: The Professional Quality option uses advanced two-pass technology to encode your video ( The first pass determines which parts of the movie can be given greater compresson without quality loss and which parts can’t. Double these numbers for dual-layer DVDs. Professional Quality is also for up to 120 minutes but even higher quality (and takes much longer) Why is there no iDVD on my new Mac? How do I get it and how do I install it?īest Performance is for videos of up to 60 minutesīest Quality is for videos of up to 120 minutes
File size is ignored, only length matters, and compressing to the standard DVD format of mpeg2 is exactly what iDVD does.