I have a video project that's 2hr 13min long and am trying to put it on a 4.7GB DVD. I thought that "fit and burn" which is enabled automatically (and "burn" is not) will compress the files as necessary in order to get it on the DVD. Is that not the case? It began the process but then aborted at some point saying the disc wasn't big enough. What's the trick?
Thanks.
fit and burn... not actually fitting
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Instead of using "Fit and Burn" do it manually instead.
At the bottom left of the screen are two icons, the one on the right is like a cog wheel. click this to bring up a dialog box "Project Settings."
Then click on change MPEG Settings.
A list appears of verious predefined settings according to the length of your video. You have a video which is 133 minutes long.
The nearest available predefined setting SP will get you 120 minutes.
However that setting has LCPM as the chosen audio format.
Select that setting. Then again select Change MPEG Settings and select Customize. Click the Compression Tab and alter the Audio to Dolby.
It will probably now fit. If it doesn't then repeat the above process but also change the bit rate currently showing 2500 to something slightly lower, perhaps 2000.
You can also use a bit rate calculator rather than a guestimate
There are plenty on the web, here's one
http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm
Regards
Steve J
At the bottom left of the screen are two icons, the one on the right is like a cog wheel. click this to bring up a dialog box "Project Settings."
Then click on change MPEG Settings.
A list appears of verious predefined settings according to the length of your video. You have a video which is 133 minutes long.
The nearest available predefined setting SP will get you 120 minutes.
However that setting has LCPM as the chosen audio format.
Select that setting. Then again select Change MPEG Settings and select Customize. Click the Compression Tab and alter the Audio to Dolby.
It will probably now fit. If it doesn't then repeat the above process but also change the bit rate currently showing 2500 to something slightly lower, perhaps 2000.
You can also use a bit rate calculator rather than a guestimate
There are plenty on the web, here's one
http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm
Regards
Steve J