How do you get a full length movie onto a disc? 120 minutes is not enough? What do I need to do? Thank you. null

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VerbatimProductSupport · Accepted Answer

The amount of time is dependent on the MPG2 or MPG4 video capture compression ratio.
The compression ratio is controlled by the software for the video capture device/recorder.
An average compression of 9.7 Mbit/s will give 60 minutes on a 4.7 Gb disc.
If the average compression is lowered to 2.5 Mbit/s it will give 240 minutes on a 4.7 Gb disc.
The higher the compression the better the video quality.

Hankypanky · Answer

Slow the recording speed and you can get up to 8 hours

Shoogirl · Answer

I record movies on them and always have room. I just adjust my dvd recorder to slower speed like SLP or EP

Sammy · Answer

When you open the burner app like Nero for example press on create video dvd and it’ll take the size not the time of the movie and it will hold 4gb thats like 3 to 4 long movies. Hope that will help

dgrego5558 · Answer

Two hours of video is at excellent or good quality you van burn 4 hours of video to a standard disc but the video quantity just depends on the program your using, Freemake has a program as does DVD Video soft that let you burn more than 2 hours to a disc. Neither are free.

Answered by dgrego5558 5 years ago

Bill · Answer

You will need to use double sided DVDs

Mr13 · Answer

A program named dvd shrink it's free Google it

Donald · Answer

You get software that will compress the movie to fit on your disc. For example, try DVD Cloner Gold.

BrianD · Answer

If you are using Windows DVD maker to burn your discs, then it will allow you to put 150 minutes worth of time on it, at least on Windows 7. I am not sure how it works with other programs or systems. If your movie is longer than 2 and a half hours, you would just have to split it up, I guess.

Answered by BrianD 6 years ago

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OYNXGUY · Answer

IF YOUR RECORDER IS ABLE TO ALLOW YOU TO GO FROM SP, LP, EXP, SLP THEN YOU CAN GET AT TIMES EVEN 4 MOVIES DEPENDING ON EACH LENGTH AND IF YOU COPY FROM THE VERY START TO END. I DON'T DO THAT ON OLD MOVIES OR SUCH. I WAIT TIL LAST COMPANY PRESENTING THE MOVIES SHOW AND START THERE AND CLOSE AFTER CAST IS SHOWN. SAVES TIME AND MEMORY.

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sledge130 · Answer

Its like the old VHS Tapes. You buy a 2 hour tape, but can record 4 hours or 6 hours depending on your settings. So whatever device you are using to record there should be a way to record at the next slower speed or 4 hours to accommodate the longer than 2 hours movie.

MrBrown · Answer

You have to set the recording speed on your DVD recorder.

Scrapmusic · Answer

Depending on what you are using to record in your setting you should be able to adjust your time of your recordings

Rainer · Answer

I found the I can do a minimal compression to make it fit. If your authoring program can't do that. I have had success running the movie through "Handbrake", a free compression software without a noticeable loss of quality.

Lonbo · Answer

I use dvdfab. There is a free version that would e.g. is well.

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