Is 8 episodes to many for a DVD for a half hour show?

[gilligan fanatic]

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home starts on Boomerang next week and I am making a set for it. I am not planning on editing out the commercials because I just don't have the time. I was thinking of recording it in LP mode which is 4 hours on a DVD. I have done a ton of stuff in that quality and I just don't think it is bad, especially if that is what it will originaly be recorded in. Any opinions about LP?

[jie3]

Personally, I don't care if it's sp or lp, and don't really see much difference.

But I record quite a few things over here in the UK for some US traders, and they will accept nothing less than sp.

So when I make up my sets, I usually stick to no more than five 25-30 min episodes per disc.

J

[pupil1313]

I think 4-6 episodes are ok, 8 is more than enough, that's for me.

[anglemark10]

I do almost everything in LP unless I get a special request. The difference between SP and LP is so minimal that it isn't worth the extra discs.

[cptdunsal]

I have to say that the most I record on a DVD is 3 hr. Anything more and the compression is noticable. Now it does depend on the brand of recorder and media. But if your going to make a set why would you want ANY distortion.
There's 48 episodes of "father". It would only add 2 disks to put 6 episodes per disk and the chance of any distortion would be much less.

[three 14]

i just put 11 murphy brown shows on 1 dvd on LP and the picture is great.

[wheezer210]

7 half hour episodes is the max for good quality (equivilent to a clean cable signal). When discs are .20-.30 each why sacrafice the quality? If you are going to originate a set, or re-do a set that someone else did a poor job at why not do the best you can? I have originated a few sets and I can tell you that if you are going to do a joblike this do it well....people will notice. With DVD-r's as cheap as they are, it is not worth the comprimise.

three 14....unless you are using 8.5 GB discs,dual side discs or have access to professional grade equipment, I have a VERY hard time beliving that is possible with out any artifacts. There is no software compression that would allow such compression without the sacrafice to quality.

[Lamont]

it all depends on the quality, the source and how its done

also, i prefer to have a sitcom, thats 30 mins, to have 5 per disc IF its a shorter run set

NOW if its a 200 episode series, of course, id prefer it at 4 hours per disc, because noone wants a 40 disc set of some silly sitcom

[digitalmonkey]

Originally Posted by gilligan fanatic

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home starts on Boomerang next week and I am making a set for it. I am not planning on editing out the commercials because I just don't have the time. I was thinking of recording it in LP mode which is 4 hours on a DVD. I have done a ton of stuff in that quality and I just don't think it is bad, especially if that is what it will originaly be recorded in. Any opinions about LP?

Gilligan, I'd definitely be interested in this set when you get it finished. I remember watching this show as a kid. I catch myself still singing the theme song to this day.

[lilhave]

A friend of mine has almost finished putting together the Lone Ranger series, 182 eps in black and white, 10 to a disk in perfect quality. They made 40 in color and while he only has 20, he will still put them 10 to a disk. They were digitally captured so the quality is outstanding.

Harvey

[three 14]

well the pictures look great to me and i cut out the ads, first i tape them on a vhs tape on sp then i put them on dvd on lp each show runs 24min.

[omg65]

In all the experiences I have ever had,recording most things over 2 hours has noticeable pixelation/quality issues.I do have flexmode on my recorder which allows me to go up to 3 hours with much better results than recording something in LP.I deal alot with sports which has alot of movement so the pixealtion potential in the LP mode is very noticeable.Sitcoms may be different but I prefer SP on everything.

[robyrob]

are your only options with your recorder SP or LP ?

I had asked myself the same question about SP versus LP, and i discovered that my recorder allows for a manual compression setting, which fits 177 minutes per disk instead of 223 minutes at LP or the +/-120 minutes at SP, you can still fit about 8 half-hour shows on a disk with the commercials removed, and the quality still looks very good (much better than LP) I plan to record a lot more stuff at this setting.

for me, i try to keep smaller sets at higher quality, and stuff with a LOT of episodes (like Benson od HD) at LP.

[omg65]

Originally Posted by robyrob

are your only options with your recorder SP or LP ?

I had asked myself the same question about SP versus LP, and i discovered that my recorder allows for a manual compression setting, which fits 177 minutes per disk instead of 223 minutes at LP or the +/-120 minutes at SP, you can still fit about 8 half-hour shows on a disk with the commercials removed, and the quality still looks very good (much better than LP) I plan to record a lot more stuff at this setting.

for me, i try to keep smaller sets at higher quality, and stuff with a LOT of episodes (like Benson od HD) at LP.

That sounds like the flexmode option.Older Panasonic(which I have) and Pioneer recorders have that option on them.Flexmode is wonderful if you have a VHS tape you need to convert that is a bit over 2 hours and you don't want to record it in the LP mode and wind up with pixelation.

[gilligan fanatic]

I have a bunch of speeds, but I don't think I have a three hour speed. I have HQ SP LP EP and maybe one other. If I did 6 episodes instead of 8 episodes in the 4 hour format would that be better?