Yellow And Red Marker Lines On Disc Size Bar!

[oka]

In the Create Disc window, what are the yellow and red marker lines on the bar that tells you how much space used, really supposed to denote?
When the video to be written reaches, or passes the yellow line, what does that mean, and the red marker line also?
Thanks

[kebrinton]

Those parts of the progress bar show what portion of your material exceeds the capacity of the DVD at the bitrate you have chosen.

You can step back and use a lower bitrate -- any number, under "Customize," and not just the 8000 - 6000 - 4000 you see listed -- or you can use a free bitrate calculator which another forum member will surely post a link to in a short while, just for you.

[Merlin]

Free bitrate calculator

http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm

Posted just for you.

[Trevor Andrew]

Try this one as well

http://dvd-hq.info/Calculator.html

[oka]

Thanks a lot for the "repliers" of my question.
I think I did not ask the correct question. What I meant to ask was what does it mean when you get to the yellow marker? I know the red marker is for full size. When I try a file that just crosses the yellow marker, it warns me that the file may be too big, and most times it would not finish it's rendering after long hours of rendering. If the yellow marker is the limit, then why have the red marker?

Wow! I am glad I asked the qestion in the first place. The information and links to the Video Size Calculators are PRICELESS. If I am going to be rude, I must admit I feel like when I had my first girlfriend. I have downloaded the off-line calculator for future use, and bookmarked the links for multimedia information. Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! for the infor.
Now I have a lot to read.

[jchunter]

If it is taking "hours" when doing Share/Create Disk, you are using the wrong procedure. Read and follow the Recommended Procedure in the top post to avoid lots of Video Studio bugs.

BTW, you don't have to ruin DVDs when trying to find out if your project will fit. Uncheck "Record to Disk" and check the option that builds the DVD image to a folder in your computer.
John

[oka]

Could someone PLEASE tell me what the YELLOW MARKER on the bar is?
What does it mean to be a hair past the yellow marker?
What is the yellow marker is for?

Hope I am being a pain in asking my simple question?

I can neither seem to find an answer on my question in the HELP section, nor in the Ulead web site.

Thanks.

[THoff]

The yellow marker means you are getting close to risking not being able to fit the project on one disk. The capacity of a blank DVD is not actually a fixed number, it will vary slightly from one type of disk to the next, and another variable is capacity that is lost to bad blocks. CBR encoding makes disk space requirements much more predictable, but VBR encodings are more problematic, since capacity calculations are based on the average bitrate, not the peak.

UVS 9 has a "Fit To Disk" feature that will make bitrate calculations largely a thing of the past.

[oka]

I now understand what the yellow marker is all about. However, I have always used it to limit my file size. Wow, VS9 Fit-To-Disk will ease up lots of video file size issues.
Thanks