Operation Manual

244 Pinnacle Studio 9
Diskometer-style display showing the amount of
space consumed by your movie on the output disc.
Also shown are the length of your movie, and a
reminder of the disc-type and quality setting you
have chosen.
2. Click the Settings button to bring up the Make Disc
options panel (see “Make disc settings” on page
272). There you can select the output format for
your movie, set up quality options, and configure
your disc burner.
To the left of the Settings button is a Browse for
folder button where you can choose a new location
for the storage of auxiliary files generated during
the Make Disc operation. If you are creating a DVD
image, it will also be located in this folder.
3. Click the green Create disc button. Studio goes
through the steps described above (render, compile,
and if necessary burn) to create the disc or disc
image you have specified in the settings dialog.
4. When Studio has finished the burning operation, it
ejects the disc.
Quality and capacity of disc formats
The differences amongst the DVD, VCD and S-VCD
disc formats can be boiled down to these rules of
thumb regarding the video quality and capacity of each
format:
• VCD: Each disc holds about 60 minutes of MPEG-1
video, with about half the quality of DVD.
• S-VCD: Each disc holds about 20 minutes of
MPEG-2 video, with about two-thirds the quality of
DVD.
• DVD: Each disc holds about 60 minutes of full-
quality MPEG-2 video.