How to spread one video onto two disks?

Question

I set up a video of my daughter's volleyball tournament. I originally "compressed to fit" and the video was very hard to watch - the ball moves in jumps - really hard on the eyes! I don't want to redo the videos into two different videos if I can help it. I want to spread the video over two dvds. Should be easy??? Thanks!

Answer 1

Well, you cannot "expand" the already compressed video onto two discs. Or, technically you can, but the quality will be exactly the same, only the files will have double size.

Because, no computer on the world can re-create non-existing information.

You simply MUST take the original video file (hope you have it, otherwise bad luck) And re-compress it with double bitrate than you used last time and then you'll have better quality product..

Now, there is few things to consider - what quality is the original video? MiniDV? SP or LP?

basically - one hour video in the BEST possible quality is only one DVD - 8000MBPS bit rate, you cannot make it any better. One and half hour video with 6000MBPS bitrate is still good quality, when human eye will have real trouble ti discover the difference. So only video longer than 1 and half hours make sense to put on two discs.

If you have video only one hour (how long is volleyball game??), the problem is not a "single DVD", but low quality of the original video OR "wrong" re-compression of the original. If low quality original - bad luck... but if quality of orig. is high and video is one hour, you have to re-make the DVD with better setting or better software (please, give us more specs if that's the case).

Hope it helps, have fun

Johnny

Answer 2

You'll need to produce two videos.  That shouldn't be too difficult though - you could copy your existing project file and then delete the appropriate bits from each.