Please help with VS8!

Jamie · Post by **Jamie** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:01 pm

Trying to transfer project onto DVD. DVD should hold 2 hours, project is only 1 hour 11 minutes but won't fit. Is there a setting I should change to make it fit.

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:36 pm

After you have clicked on "Share >> Create Disc" in the bottom left corner of the "Create Disc" window you will see two icons - click on the left one (square with little lines on) - from the pop-up choose "Disk Template Manager" - - choose "Fair quality" from the list - click "Close" - burn your disc.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:40 pm

Use a lower bitrate (lower quality).

Sorry, I don't have VS on this machine so I can't tell you exactly what to click.

I'll bet yuu're using LPCM audio. Two hours of LPCM are going to eat-up over 1GB. AC3 or MPEG audio should take-up about one-third as much space.

[EDIT] - Brian beat me to it... do what he said!

LPCM is standard on all players. all PAL player must also play MPEG audio (AC3 is optional). All NTSC players (i.e. USA) must play AC3 (MPEG audio is optional).

Jamie · Post by **Jamie** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:55 pm

Thanks! Saved me a LOT of time and trouble!

alanball · Post by **alanball** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:33 am

Hi Guy's,
I'm just getting into Video editing with V8 and read this post with interest. I looked up LPMC on the internet to find out what it stood for (now I know), but could you please tell me if I copy a part of a CD sound track into VS8 what format does VS8 save the sound track in when I'm working with an AVI file?

Thanks

Alan

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Tue May 10, 2005 3:50 am

An audio file ripped from a CD is normally also in LPCM audio format, but using a different bitrate than the one used by DVDs.

However, that's not a problem. UVS will convert the source material into a DVD-compliant format.

alanball · Post by **alanball** » Tue May 10, 2005 10:54 pm

Thanks THoff.