Project size overstated when opening a saved project

Mr. Blue Sky · Post by **Mr. Blue Sky** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:33 pm

I recently saved a project which was less than 4GB.

When I opened it to continue working on it, the size was stated as 19GB!!

I tried deleting the individual elements from the project and reloading them, but I got the same error.

What would cause this?

thecoalman · Post by **thecoalman** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:49 pm

Possibly your project settings changed? Is it DV source? That's about 1.5 hours of MPEG @ 6000kbps. If you right click on a clip in the timeline what are the properties?

Mr. Blue Sky · Post by **Mr. Blue Sky** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 6:08 pm

I had burned a project on a standalone burner and ripped the files (5 segments for a total of 3hr 42mins 28 secs) so that I could re-author it using MF3. No changes were made from the time I saved the project until I reopened it.

In fact I just re-did the project and burned it with no problems. However When I reopened the project, the DVD bar at the bottom says:

19.54 (18.20) GB/ 3hr 42mins 28secs

When I right click on the clip, the data rate is listed as "Variable bit rate (9586 kbps)". The total time and size of the clip are both correct.

thecoalman · Post by **thecoalman** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:21 pm

Does it have to reencode the clip to burn? possibly you ripped it into different bitrate.... I really don't know that's just weird. What's the file size if get the properties from windows in my computer?

It works though doesn't it? Id just ignore.

I'm guessing something happened to screw it up, your not using the exact fles from the original project?

Mr. Blue Sky · Post by **Mr. Blue Sky** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:36 am

I ripped the files off the DVD using TMPGEnc using its "Copy DVD File" method. This puts the file in an MPEG format onto the hard drive.

When I add these files to MFM3 to create a new DVD, everything is fine. I could just burn a DVD right then and there. However, if I save the project for burning at a later time and reopen it, the size has tripled.

When I created the MFM3 project, I just loaded the files to be burned, but went no further than that.

If I delete the files to be burned and reload them, the same problem occurs.

This is very baffling.

htchien · Post by **htchien** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 4:18 am

Have you loaded all the updates and patches of DVDMF??

http://www.ulead.com/tech/dmf/dmf.htm

Hope this helps.

H.T.

Mr. Blue Sky · Post by **Mr. Blue Sky** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:50 pm

I updated the software and that seemed to fix the problem!

Thanks!