is their a way of splitting a large movie to 2 discs

kayleighink · Post by **kayleighink** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:06 pm

is their a way of splitting my movie because it is to big to fit on one dvd.
is their an area were you can tell ulead to split it on to 2 dvds?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:17 pm

How big is too big? Did you try reducing the bitrate? Did you try DVDShrink? If it is indeed too big then you can do the following:

Split your project into two parts and burn them separately. First, make sure your entire project is saved. Then, with your entire project in the timeline pick a point where you want to split it and use the scissors to cut it. Now copy the "second half" of the project to your library, then delete it from the timeline. You now have your "first half" of the project in the timeline. Save that as "Project 1", for example. Start a new project. Drag the "second half" of your project from the library to your timeline. Save that as "Project 2". Now you have three projects in total - the entire project, project 1 (first half), and project 2 (second half).

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:29 pm

Did you consider burning on a 2-layer 8.5GB disc?

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:04 pm

Hi kayleighink

There is no automatic way that Video Studio creates two discs to fit your movie.

Video Studio has a ¡¥fit to disc¡¦ option in the burner stage, this should re-render the video to fit one disc (I have never used this option.)

A single layer disc holds 4.3 Gb of data.

You have to create a video file below this in order for it to fit a disc.
By reducing the Bit Rate you can fit more minutes on a disc.
The audio properties also play a part in file size. Use Digital Dolby.

Bit Rate
8000 is deemed to be top quality for a 60 minute video
reduce this to 4000 and you will fit 120 minutes to a disc, yes you should expect some reduction in quality, whether this is noticeable/acceptable is in the eye of the beholder.

So the question asked earlier is how long is your movie?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:32 pm

Video Studio has a ¡¥fit to disc¡¦ option in the burner stage, this should re-render the video to fit one disc

From my experience this only works if the length of your project is just over the 4.3 Gb limit. If it's much over it doesn't work. How much "just" and "much" is I haven't bothered to figure out.

(as most of my projects are well under 4.3 Gb)

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:13 pm

I agree with Black Lab. I get the impression the fit to disc option was added as an afterthought and either was not tested thoroughly or was inadequately documented afterwards.

If I have a project significantly larger than 4.3 GB and if I absolutely have to fit it on a single layer DVD and if I don't want to be bothered using bitrate calculators or guesswork, then I will 'burn' my larger project to a DVD folder (Video_TS), then use DVD Shrink on it. The quality from this is (for me at least) always excellent.

kayleighink · Post by **kayleighink** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:55 am

my movie is around 12.7 GB I'm trying very hard to cut it down
Its 3hours 51 minutes

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:11 am

It really depends on exactly what properties the original video has and what quality you expect from putting such a -- frankly -- enormous project on one or even two single layer discs.

If it currently has high quality settings, and you want to preserve that quality, then you will need to divide it into at least 3 single layer projects, the way Black Lab described above.

Otherwise, to fit nearly 4 hours on a SL DVD, you would need to use a bitrate of (well) under 4000 kbps and the resulting quality would -- frankly again -- likely be pretty poor.

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:30 am

When I have a video over 4 gigs and don't want to lose quality and split it across 2 or more dvd's I create a template in the Make Movie Manager to exactly match the properties of my video file. In the Movie Manager Template creation there is an option to split the video, sized in kilobytes.

I recommend after creating the template to exit VS, clear temp files & restart VS. Then import your video and export it assigning the custom template.
When VS is rendering the display screen wil be for each file that's being split.
If you do this correctly a 8gig file can be split down to 2 separate 4 gig files in a matter of minutes having VS perform smart rendering.

The split size in kilobytes for a 4 gig file would be ( 4,000,000,000 / 1000 ) = 4.000.000 (So this means put a 4 with 6 zeros) Numeric 4000000

This feature in VS10+ does work. I've used it many times. The only thing is you have to create a template first. After you create the template exit VS, restart VS and start your project.