Interpreting the required/available figures in the Burn step

Nicholas Rumin · Post by **Nicholas Rumin** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:40 pm

I got nowhere with Corel email tech support on this issue. The VS10+ project that I am trying to burn is a bit larger than previous ones. Nevertheless, according the the required/available figures on the burn page (both the bracketed ones and the others) my project should fit. Well, when I click on burn, I get a warning that the project may not fit. If I choose to proceed anyway, I get a message that this may take a long time. Sure enough, after about 95% had been copied, the burning stopped.
Reducing the project eliminated the size warning but I was still warned that this may take a long time. I got the same message when I tried a burn project with which I had previously successfully burned dvd's !!

I am using a single mpeg file and the burn properties match the file. I have checked "Do not render mpeg compliant files". Any clues?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:09 pm

That message can pop up even with a 5 minute video.
The fact you have only a single MPEG file does not tell me anything.
This can range from a clip of a few minutes of your dogs running around the back garden, to a single MPEG file that was a TV recording you did overnight and lasts for 5 hours.

What you need to do is work out your bit rates to make sure everything will fit - don't forget to include room for your DVD Menus.

What bit rate settings should I use?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:11 pm

I think that you will find that both VS10 and VS11/11.5+ give the 'this will take some time warning' by default and regardless of whatever you are trying to burn. I get it every time and simply click OK to get the warning off the screen and proceed with the burning. Never had a problem. And of course there is a check box on the warning where you can choose to 'Never show this message again".

One thing is not quite clear, though: when you reduced the size of your project/mpeg-2, did the burn successfully complete or did it again abort after 95%??

Nicholas Rumin · Post by **Nicholas Rumin** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:25 am

Thanks sjj1805 and Ken Berry. No, when I reduced the file size the burn did complete successfully. What is not clear to me is why the original file (which was slightly over 4 Gb) was deemed too large if the required/available figures (bracketed and unbracketed) showed that there was ample space? It seems to me that they are there simply to mislead the user

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:08 am

Before Videostudio starts to create your DVD it tries to estimate how big the finished file size will be. That is only an estimate and so if you are near the capacity of the disc then it could be slightly under or over.