A little help needed please

Gabe · Post by **Gabe** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:42 pm

I originally edited five hours of dv down to one hour forty six minutes only to discover that after rendering the DVD it came in at 6+ GB and the DVD only hold 4+. After making a copy onto my second hard drive I then took the original and figured I would delete half and just make two disks. After creating a file for a second time and many hours of waiting it still shows the total project to be 1hr 46 min and the preview amount to be 1hr, which is what I would like it to be. Is there something I'm missing with respect to cutting this thing in half?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Darrel

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:48 pm

How exactly did you cut it in half?

You may not even have to cut it. What are your project settings and what were the source clips, DV AVI or MPEG?

Gabe · Post by **Gabe** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:29 am

heinz-oz wrote:How exactly did you cut it in half?

You may not even have to cut it. What are your project settings and what were the source clips, DV AVI or MPEG?

I took the time and just went and deleted the second half.

I was set for DV AVI and the clips were originally from my DV cam.

rwindeyer · Post by **rwindeyer** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:30 am

You have a couple of choices here. You can easily fit that amount on a DVD, by reducing the bitrate (ie quality) of the mpeg file. Or, if you want to spread it over two discs, splitting the project is the way to go. The way I would do this:

Load the file into the timeline
Scan along to find a suitable spot
Use the "scissors" below the preview window to cut the project at that point. Now you have two "clips" in the timeline.
Save the project file.
Delete the second clip.
Generate a new file from the remaining clip. => for disc 1
Reload the project file, delete the first clip, and generate a file from the second clip => for disc 2.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:47 am

Gabe wrote:
heinz-oz wrote:How exactly did you cut it in half?

You may not even have to cut it. What are your project settings and what were the source clips, DV AVI or MPEG?
I took the time and just went and deleted the second half.

I was set for DV AVI and the clips were originally from my DV cam.

I take it you just deleted the clips from the time line, right?

Did you create a new video file afterwards to burn to disk?

Any editing you do in VS or MSP does not change nothing on your original source files. You have to create a new video file of your edits and continue processing that.

EDITED
Ooops, didn't see rwindeyer's post here when I started to create mine. Same thing really but rwindeyer was more precise and gave you the relevant instructions also

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:19 am

If you dont want to use the split in half method then a table of suggested bit rate settings to enable you to fit it onto one disk is the 7th post down here:
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=11923

Regards
Steve J