Disc space is not enough?? But it is!

[mpapamarcos]

Argh!

After hours of editing and preparing
slide shows, and many hours of crunch time,
DVD MovieFactory 2 quits at the very end of
the burning process with the message:
"Disc space is not enough, Insert a new disc
to retry or press Cancel to stop the process".

Well, it says it only needs 3.9GB and 4.4GB
are available on the disc. I've tried this
with two different DVD-R discs and now a
DVD-RW. No problem with hard drive space.

This is version 2.10.2152.0000 SE.

I am dead in the water.

Please help, this is for my church's christmas play.

[bekane912]

I know how annoying it is to finish a project only to find out there is not enough disc space to burn it. Ulead does not compress the files to fit on one disc, evidently.

There may be two factors involved here. I have run into that problem myself. One, the actual disc space required is incorrect (maybe caused by the menus) or you do not have enough virtual memory (harddrive space) left to do the job. The "record" menu shows you how much space you need on your harddrive and how much disc space you need on a DVD. If the free space on your harddrive is close to the amount needed this may be your problem. Try freeing up some of your harddrive space by deleting unneeded files. You can also just try putting in another disc and see what happens. Hope this helps.

[THoff]

Another possibility is that you are running with an operating system / file system that doesn't support files > 4GB. If that is the case, try breaking up your project into two roughly equal-sized video clips.

[mpapamarcos]

Here it is. Bug in original software incorrectly estimates actual
space required on DVD. Installed this patch and now it says I need
4.9GB. That makes sense now. I have to eliminate some footage.

Not an OS issue. Not a hard drive issue.

http://www.ulead.com/tech/dmf/dmf2faq.htm#1

[bekane912]

ADDITION TO PRIOR INPUT:
I have yet to create a file that will fit on a disc in MF3. So I found a way around it.

I wasn't sure about the rules in mentioning 3rd party software so I didn't offer this suggestiion: There is a free program called DVD SHRINK that can be downloaded from www.afterdawn.com. I have used it successfully for burning the files that mf3 creates. Instead of choosing "record to disc" (uncheck it) choose "record to folder" in MF3. After the conversion, open SHRINK and choose "open file", locate the VIDEO_TS FOLDER created by mf3. and SHRINK will compress the file just enough to fit on a disc. If you have Nero Burn it will also write the file to disc. The whole process takes about 20 mins in SHRINK. The only problem with this scenario is whether or not you have Nero installed. I haven't tried using any other software to burn the files generated by SHRINK. It uses the Nero burning engine to burn to disc.

[mpapamarcos]

One approach is to lower the compression quality.

Even in MF2, there is an option for this. The file size didn't
get any smaller until I started cranking it down from 6000.

Try it in steps of 100 until you get the right file size.
I took mine down to 5500 and that shrank by a little over
10%, which is what I needed. We'll see how it looks on
the DVD when the stupid 12-hour conversion process
finishes.

This may be doing the same thing which your third party
utility is doing.

The only other thing I can't figure out now is why, when I
try to use "extract video" to create more than one segment
(i.e. cutting out pieces from the middle), the file size INCREASES.
This is just bizarre. Seemingly, I can't create a series of cuts.
The only other way I know to do this is to duplicate the video a
zillion times and extract each piece from that, but that will create
a zillion menu buttons and what I really want are chapters.

Anybody recommend a good tool for just making cuts in an AVI?

[Texas_bret]

mp,

Thanks for the link and info. Last night was the first time I got that error about not enough space on the disc (even though the initial calc said I did). I will check out the patch tonight. I was PO to waste that much time and disc on a dud!

[quoling]

I am trying to burn a dvd onto my HDD so that I can then compress it using DVD Shrink - but I get the message that the project is over it's limitation - this is despite - compressing fully or setting to 180 min DVD...

So what is the project limitation?

[saintjoe69]

mpapamarcos:
I have never been able to burn a DVD that is slightly longer than 60 mins. I usually have to trim my videos down to 60-65 mins, in both MF2 and MF3.

When extracting, make sure that it is actually deleting that segment, instead of copying it and adding it into your original. That is the only way I see that it might be increasing it's size.

I have given feedback to ULEAD requesting that they incorporate Sonic MyDVD's option of "Fit To DVD". This automatically adjusts the compression depending on the length of the video. You can even put 3-4 hr videos onto DVD without worrying about "insufficient space" error messages; however, I still prefer using MF2 over MF3 and Sonic's MyDVD. I only use MyDVD when I have longer videos to place onto a DVD.

[Richard Turnock]

I really hope the sofwtare patch works. I like the product but this is the sole reason I stopped using it about a year ago and just started again. Reducing the size through increase compression, increasing disc space etc. does not work. It is as though the software is computing based on some default compression. it is very frustrating to spend hours recompressing then have it refuse to write.

BTW Just made some PAL to NTSC conversion and they worked very well - very impressive.