compressibility with B&W video's

[poopity poop]

currently encoding Young frankenstien. IT has audio commentary, outtakes, and the making of video's, and I want to squeeze them all onto 2 CD's which means the bitrate for the movie has to br around ~1000. THe video is black and White and my gut intuition tells me that it will comrpess much better due to less contrast, but I just want to make sure, that encoding an SVCD stream at such a low bitrate would be OK?

[adam]

I've read conflicting opinions on this but my personal testing shows that b+w will look better at lower bitrates than color, at least to my eyes.

Why not just do a 5 min test encode of the most bitrate intensive scene you can find? If it looks ok to you than the rest of your movie should be acceptable as well. A simple test would have taken alot less time than waiting for a response in the forum.

[poopity poop]

Yeah it would have taken less time, butI'm already done with that movie. Its not like I did wait around lol. Thanks for the advice though.
I kept it at 2CD's for the movie, and I'm just going to put the extra's on the third CD. I encoded it at a bitrate of 1775. It looks fine