I've spliced together 50 different home movies into one long 2 1/2 hr movie with transition effects, and audio. I am experiencing two significant problems.
1)I rename the chapters in the edit stage and then these don't carryover to the menu during the final stages prior to burn where I edited the menu appearance. Do you have to manually go to each menu page and change, for eg. Chapter 001 to "Mom's Birthday" ? etc... it seems a bit tedious and I wonder if there is an easier way.
2) When I go to burn, it says the disk size is too small for the file. I went back and cut into TWO and tried to render the first 1/2 only, same thing. I then went back and tried the first 1/4 only, same thing! AND I noticed it was saying the file size was still the same. It said it could try to fit and when I chose this I waited 3 hours for it to complete rendering of 3%... doesn't seem reasonable.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Can't complete menu and Won't BURN!
Moderator: Ken Berry
What format(s) are your original videos? If they are in any format other than AVI/DV (13GB per hour), you are likely to run into trouble. The more compressed formats can sometimes be "difficult" to edit or convert. And, with 50 of them, a few are likely to be troublesome...I've spliced together 50 different home movies into one long 2 1/2 hr movie with transition effects, and audio. I am experiencing two significant problems... I waited 3 hours for it to complete rendering of 3%... doesn't seem reasonable.
The file size is determined by combined audio & video bitrate and playing time. Here's a handy online bitrate calculator. (At a bitrate of 3,750kbps, you can fit 2.5 bours of video and Dolby audio onto a single-layer DVD. If you use LPCM audio, the required low video-bitrate might make the video quality unacceptable.)2) When I go to burn, it says the disk size is too small for the file. I went back and cut into TWO and tried to render the first 1/2 only, same thing. I then went back and tried the first 1/4 only, same thing! AND I noticed it was saying the file size was still the same.
I think you can "drag" the chaper to the menu, but I'd better leave that question for others... I haven't been using Movie Factory lately...1)I rename the chapters in the edit stage and then these don't carryover to the menu during the final stages prior to burn where I edited the menu appearance. Do you have to manually go to each menu page and change, for eg. Chapter 001 to "Mom's Birthday" ? etc... it seems a bit tedious and I wonder if there is an easier way.
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Re: Can't complete menu and Won't BURN!
Yep - I've had this problem too. Seems the only way out is close the project, and rename the original clip. Next open the project and relink the one clip you really want to keep. NOTE - make a backup first ( save as ).snoozyq2001 wrote:I then went back and tried the first 1/4 only, same thing! AND I noticed it was saying the file size was still the same.
Not sure if deleting the cache helps (actually not sure where the cache is
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I think the 'reduce to fit' feature is a bit of a con. It only seems to work if the excess amount is not very much more than the maximum allowable (i.e. a few hundred megabytes at most). If it is more than a gigabyte, then it tends to fall over. In such a circumstance, I select 'DVD Folders' as the target for the burn rather than an actual DVD. Then I use DVD Shrink or Nero Recode to reduce the size of the overall DVD folder so that it will fit onto a single layer DVD.
As for your file remaining the same size, I suspect that you might be jumping straight from the editing in the timeline to the burning module (Share > Create Disc). Instead, we recommend that after you have finished editing, you first produce a DVD compatible mpeg-2 of your project ( Share > Create File > DVD). Naturally you need to choose properties, especially bitrate, that will keep your file within the size necessary to burn to a single layer DVD (4.3 GB).
The fact that you say you first divided your project in half, then in quarters, but the end file size remained the same, tells me that you were in fact dividing it in the editing module and deleting the second half from the timeline, but then again going to Share > Create Disc, and thus inserting the project file into the burning timeline. If so, you have to be aware that such a cut or division of your original project is only virtual since it does not affect the original project length -- it just looks as though it is much smaller on the editing timeline.
Instead, with your project in the timeline, do a final save. Then cut your video in half. Then highlight the second half and delete it. Then save the first half as a new project with a different name. Then reopen the original project, and do the same, only this time highlight and delete the first half, then save what remains as a third project with yet another name.
At this point, I would also go to Share > Create Video File > DVD to create a DVD compatible mpeg-2 of the second half of the project. Once that is finished, I would then reopen the second project of the three (i.e. the one you created which contains the first half of the original), and do the same. That way, you will end up with two separate, DVD compatible mpeg-2s which include your whole project. And if the two of them are too big together to burn to one DVD, then burn a separate DVD for each half using one of the files...
As for your file remaining the same size, I suspect that you might be jumping straight from the editing in the timeline to the burning module (Share > Create Disc). Instead, we recommend that after you have finished editing, you first produce a DVD compatible mpeg-2 of your project ( Share > Create File > DVD). Naturally you need to choose properties, especially bitrate, that will keep your file within the size necessary to burn to a single layer DVD (4.3 GB).
The fact that you say you first divided your project in half, then in quarters, but the end file size remained the same, tells me that you were in fact dividing it in the editing module and deleting the second half from the timeline, but then again going to Share > Create Disc, and thus inserting the project file into the burning timeline. If so, you have to be aware that such a cut or division of your original project is only virtual since it does not affect the original project length -- it just looks as though it is much smaller on the editing timeline.
Instead, with your project in the timeline, do a final save. Then cut your video in half. Then highlight the second half and delete it. Then save the first half as a new project with a different name. Then reopen the original project, and do the same, only this time highlight and delete the first half, then save what remains as a third project with yet another name.
At this point, I would also go to Share > Create Video File > DVD to create a DVD compatible mpeg-2 of the second half of the project. Once that is finished, I would then reopen the second project of the three (i.e. the one you created which contains the first half of the original), and do the same. That way, you will end up with two separate, DVD compatible mpeg-2s which include your whole project. And if the two of them are too big together to burn to one DVD, then burn a separate DVD for each half using one of the files...
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