Understanding bit budgeting


    Bit budgeting, or estimating the amount of space your project will occupy on DVD, is an important part of planning. Bit budgeting helps you strike a balance between the quantity and quality of content and determine the optimal video data rate. If your DVD includes minimal amounts of content, you can encode that content at a higher data rate (which translates to higher quality) to take advantage of all available space on the DVD. Conversely, if your project contains a large amount of content, you need to use a lower data rate (which translates to lower quality) to squeeze it all onto the DVD.

    Adobe Encore DVD automatically tracks bit budgeting during the authoring process. For small projects with limited content, simply checking the amount of available space on the Disc tab during the authoring process is usually sufficient to track your space usage. For large, complex projects, though, bit budgeting becomes much more important to the authoring process.

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