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Originally Posted by neshru
Of course the point of his post is that he wants all the episodes to fit on the same DVD. And with a HD series that is 26 episodes-long, even a dual layer DVD may not be enough to fit all the episodes on one DVD.
Anyways, it's something that bothers me too. When it happens, I simply start cutting out previews or endings from the episodes until the total size is small enough.
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1. Run 1-pass, fast-settings CRF encode on all episodes.
2. Sum up file sizes. This sum is A. Write down all the bitrates for each episode.
3. Calculate the size of your DVD. This size is B. Maybe make it a tiny bit smaller so you have room for error.
4. For each episode, let NewBitrate = CRFBitrate * (B/A).
5. Run second pass on each episode.
There, magic, everything fits on a DVD but you still get proper bitrate distribution.