I found this on LinkedIn, and it’s pretty cool if you have an iPhone. I’ve never been real good at bit budgets so this is a great tool to have handy. Best of all, it’s free! And it works for DVD or Blu-ray. Here’s what the creator, Andy Evans from The Pavement in London, had to say about it:

I wanted to share with you all our DVD & Blu-ray Bit Budget iPhone App that just went live on the Apps Store.

It’s the first version and therefore free to download.

The DVD bit is pretty straightforward, but those of you who have worked with Blu-ray know it’s not that easy to calculate your video data rates when the disc includes any of the Dolby or DTS lossless formats as the data size taken by them is determined by factors including what’s needed to represent what’s going on. For example, a drama based feature will probably need less data to reproduce it compared to a high energy rock concert. We have accounted for this in several ways in our calculator. Firstly, we have given two preset data rates named HD Audio – Feature and HD Audio Music that we have derived from working on quite a few music and film projects. We believe these will give you a pretty good estimation on the safe side. The other two ways are to either include the actual data size taken up by your already encoded Dolby or DTS lossless formats, or enter a custom data rate that you know.

I look forward to any feedback that you have as on how we can improve upon it.

You can find the Bit Budget Pro here:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/bit-budget-pro/id339764858?mt=8

Kind regards,

Andy

Hey Andy, need a menu designer?

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