brett
2nd March 2004, 23:18
Equilibrium is a DVD-9, but it only takes up 6,195,628,032 bytes. It is an extremely dark 2.35:1 movie, 107 minutes long, and only has a few trailers and 4-minute featurette.
I set the main feature to play first in IfoEdit, then transcoded it with InstantCopy 7.1.1, removing the "Dimension Home Video" title, using 30.00% for the trailers, 50.00% for the featurette, 60.00% for the menus, and 75.80% for the main feature with all audio/subtitles included. IC listed the output size as 4.37 GB, but the final image was only 4,267,089,820 bytes. So, I raised the Kill Bill trailer and the featurette to 60%, set the other trailers at 50%, and transcoded it again several times changing only the quality of the main feature title:
Title 1 Target GB Actual image size
------- --------- -----------------
83.80% 4.82 GB 4,342,052,864
90.00% 5.10 GB 4,342,052,864
99.90% 5.56 GB 4,342,063,104
100.00% 5.57 GB 5,986,729,984
Apparently InstantCopy has totally maxed out the size of the main feature, and the only way to get it to take more room is to set 100.00% so that it is copied without processing. It was probably maxed out during my first pass at 75.80%, because the image size only grew by 71.5 MB when I raised the quality of all the other titles.
So, I finally just had InstantCopy leave everything at 100.00%, except I put the main feature at 99.90%, and the final size was 4,552,112,128 bytes. Looks like that's as big as I can get it with InstantCopy.
I'm not complaining. The final copy looks great. It's just interesting.
I set the main feature to play first in IfoEdit, then transcoded it with InstantCopy 7.1.1, removing the "Dimension Home Video" title, using 30.00% for the trailers, 50.00% for the featurette, 60.00% for the menus, and 75.80% for the main feature with all audio/subtitles included. IC listed the output size as 4.37 GB, but the final image was only 4,267,089,820 bytes. So, I raised the Kill Bill trailer and the featurette to 60%, set the other trailers at 50%, and transcoded it again several times changing only the quality of the main feature title:
Title 1 Target GB Actual image size
------- --------- -----------------
83.80% 4.82 GB 4,342,052,864
90.00% 5.10 GB 4,342,052,864
99.90% 5.56 GB 4,342,063,104
100.00% 5.57 GB 5,986,729,984
Apparently InstantCopy has totally maxed out the size of the main feature, and the only way to get it to take more room is to set 100.00% so that it is copied without processing. It was probably maxed out during my first pass at 75.80%, because the image size only grew by 71.5 MB when I raised the quality of all the other titles.
So, I finally just had InstantCopy leave everything at 100.00%, except I put the main feature at 99.90%, and the final size was 4,552,112,128 bytes. Looks like that's as big as I can get it with InstantCopy.
I'm not complaining. The final copy looks great. It's just interesting.