VS7 reports dics capacity at 4.4 Gb, not 4.7Gb

[Dacar92]

Does anyone know why this is? Also, when burning a project at about 3.7 Gb, after the render process, a pop up box telling me there is not enough disc capacity and it won't burn.

I am using a NEC ND-3520 burner on Win XP-1, and VS7. My projects are captured in Capwiz as an Mpeg 2 file. I use VS7 to edit and burn the video.

Please help if you can. I am tired of going through the render process, which is time consuming enough, just to find out the file is too large. I have never tried to burn a project over 4 GB just for this reason, even though is it well within the disc capacity (4.7 Gb). I have used several different media brands.

Thanks in advance. Let me know if you need further info.

[GeorgeW]

just how you count up the bits and bytes...

from videohelp.com

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DVD-5
DVD-5 is a single sided single layer DVD that stores up to about 4.7 GB = 4 700 000 000 bytes and that is 4.38 computer GigaBytes where 1 kilobyte is 1024 bytes(4 700 000 000B/1024 = about 4 589 843KB/1024 = about 4485MB/1024 = about 4.38GB) . Video DVD, DVD-R/W and DVD+R/W supports this format. Often referred to as "single sided, single layer".
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regarding capwiz captures, make sure you tell VS7 to "Do not convert compliant mpeg files" (I don't know if that option exists, but if it does, it will prevent VS7 from re-encoding your compliant mpeg videos).

[Dacar92]

OK, but do you know why I get an error message saying the disc capacity is too small for the vid I am trying to burn? It happens on vids over 3.2 Gb on an empty disc. It is very frustrating.

Thanks

[THoff]

That could happen if CapWiz captured at 4000Kbps and your UVS project is set for 8000Kbps for instance, because the 3.2GB file would expand to 6.4GB.

Check the properties of the source file, and then modify the DVD project settings to match -- that would let you burn the file onto a single disk, and eliminate the need to re-render it.

[Dacar92]

That makes sense. Thanks, I will look at that. But I think it is the opposite. I capture at 4 or 6kbps and burn at the same or less.

I will check that out.

[GeorgeW]

check your audio. you might have captured mpeg audio, and your project is set to use lpcm audio -- that might put you over the top...

[StewartTurner]

It saves a lot of time on the final render if you render the individual chapters of the final disc to mpeg files first before you compile the final disc.