Help with MovieFactory 3.5 suite deluxe

[FallingAngel]

Ok so i just bought this recently but i cant figure out whats going on.

I am trying to burn some of my home movies onto a dvd so i can watch it on my dvd player anytime i want.

But when i finish editing all of it and what not, and am about to burn it, it says i have to have free disk space first on my hard drive.

So if the thing is like 3 gbs, than it'll ask that i have at least 5 or 6 gbs free of hard drive space.

I've been looking at all the different options here and there trying to figure out why its doing this and nothing i change seems to make it any different.

So i'm guessing it saves a copy of whatever i burn onto my hard drive, and there is no option i see to turn that off.

I just wanna burn the thing, i dont want to free up like 6 gigs just to burn something, that makes no sense at all.

Someone plz help me out, i would appreciate it a lot. thanks in advance

[GeorgeW]

it needs the space for the temp files it will create during the DVD Build process.

How tight are you on space? Hard Drives are pretty inexpensive these days -- I just picked up a 200gb for under $50

Even the external HD's have come down to under .50/gb

Regards,
George

[DVDDoug]

I just wanna burn the thing, i dont want to free up like 6 gigs just to burn something, that makes no sense at all.

OK, here's the deal... You could just directly burn your video file onto a DVD without eating up any more disk space. And, you could play the DVD with Windows Media Player. But, you would NOT have a properly formatted video-DVD, and it wouldn't play on your living-room DVD player.

I don't know why, but I think if I have a 4GB file it wants another 8GB of temporary space.. a total of three times the required DVD space!!! You probably need a new hard drive