VS9 burning question

jerseybri · Post by **jerseybri** » Tue May 10, 2005 2:33 pm

I have read the tutorials but am still confused. I have created content using the timeline, and I save it. If I click share-->create disc it tells me the total space is about 2.25gb. If I burn from there, without deleting from the timeline, it takes about 3 hours. The tutorials state that I should delete from the timeline, and I tried to do that. When I do, then click share-->create disc I have nothing to create since it is all out of the timeline. If I bring in my project at that point, it tells me the total space is over 5gb. What am I doing wrong?

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Tue May 10, 2005 2:45 pm

I don't know what tutorials you are reading, but the procedure that is spelled out in the top sticky post says:

Create a video file of your project (Share/Create Video File)

Clear the timeline or select New Project (clearing the timeline display).

Select Share/Create Disk, Select (Add Video) the Video file you just created.

Set your Burn rties to match the video file and then burn.

John

jerseybri · Post by **jerseybri** » Tue May 10, 2005 3:03 pm

The tutorials to which I was referring are the ones in the sticky post. When I follow that procedure, the size of my project jumps. In the example I gave, if I go right from editting in the timeline to the share tab and burn the disk, the size of the file is 2.25gb. It burns successfully, but it takes 3 hours. If I save the project, completely shutdown vs9, restart it and start a new project, go to the share tab (with nothing in the timeline) and add the video I just created, the size of the file is 5.33gb and will not fit on the disk.

Dumb question (thanks for bearing with me) - When you say 'clear the timeline', exactly how? I deleted the files from it, and when I went to share there was, of course, no file to share.

jerseybri · Post by **jerseybri** » Tue May 10, 2005 3:08 pm

I went back and re-read the procedures. I was saving the file from the timeline, then closing vs9. I don't know how I missed the part about going to share and creating a video file, then adding it. I will try that. I did RTFM, I just misread it. I guess this explains the problem I had. Sorry!

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Tue May 10, 2005 3:19 pm

Great! Now you are on the right track. No more multi-hour burn sessions...
John

kebrinton · Post by **kebrinton** » Wed May 11, 2005 12:57 am

Just an addendum:

Last night I kept saving and saving a small project, but when I added the actual video file to a larger project I was building, it would not be the small project I'd saved, but a different video that I had disliked and stopped working on.

Finally it dawned on me: I'd not "created a video file." All I had done was save a PROJECT -- but this isn't a video file! When I actually went to Share and created the new video file, it appeared in the folder with its new name and was usable in the bigger project.

Some heads are thicker than others.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed May 11, 2005 5:23 am

...and a further addendum: this reminds me that there is another new feature in VS9 that I really appreciate. You can now enable autosave from between every 1 to 60 minutes -- and I have set mine down towards the lower end. Nothing worse that getting so wrought up in a project that you forget to regularly save it, only to have the program crash! Anyway, its on the first page of File > Preferences down towards the bottom, for those who have not noticed it...