VX3 creating two movies

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Ron posted details of “creating a video file with specific duration”.
You didn’t do this by any chance.

This option is normally un-selected.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Are your PC’s operating system/drives using Fat32, or using NTFS

Fat32 has a 4Gb file limit

[Bradley B]

Hi

Are your PC’s operating system/drives using Fat32, or using NTFS

Fat32 has a 4Gb file limit

That is a good question. I will check to see how my C: drive is formatted when I get home. If it's Fat32...is there any way to have more than one movie on a DVD and only have one PLAY button? Also, I never messed with the duration settings at all, but I will check those as well just to make sure.

Thanks again!

[Ron P.]

If the drive is FAT32, that would explain things a little more. FAT32 has a file size limitation of I think 4gig, and actually it is 1-byte less than 4GB. You would need to reformat the drive to NTSF.

[Bradley B]

If the drive is FAT32, that would explain things a little more. FAT32 has a file size limitation of I think 4gig, and actually it is 1-byte less than 4GB. You would need to reformat the drive to NTSF.

My drive is NTSF. I will play with a few things and see what I come up with. I will post more with my findings.

thanks yet again for your input!

Bradley

[Bradley B]

Ok, I feel like a tool. My operating system is on my C: drive which is NTSF. I am saving my videos to my external USB drive which is...uhm....uh....Fat32. I apologize for wasting your time. that sound you here from a distance is me smacking my forehead with my palm. the deleted video files were indeed 3.99GB for movie #1. Thank you all or your wonderful help. I would have never found this oversight without you all leading me to the answer! You're a great source for knowledge!

Be safe and enjoy the holidays!

Bradley

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Bradley

Good news, at least that’s solved.

My only concern now is the field order of the video files.

One source video is VHS and as such will use Upper Field first.
The other is 8mm, how you capture these may determine the field order, but most likely Upper.
Right click a clip in the timeline and select properties, note the field order, better still post the details to the forum. This will help us in advising you what settings to use.

Video Studio by default uses Lower Field. If I am correct you are using Upper Field, Changing the field order may cause quality issues.

Options

Share Create Video File-Custom - save type as Mpeg
Choose Options-Compression as NTSC DVD
General tab – set Upper Field

OR

Use Settings – Make Movie Templates Manager to create your own DVD template.

Creating smaller Video
I believe you mentioned this earlier……
If you were to make several videos at say 20 minutes, you would probably find editing a little easier.
You would be able to Add these in the authoring stage (DVD MF7SE)
For each movie (title) you add a link/thumbnail would be created with-in the main menu.
The navigation controls set how the disc responds to the menu. Set “continue play next clip” and the disc would play to end through all movie titles.

Bit rate and file size
8000 kbps is full quality DVD for 60 minutes per standard disc.
6000kbps gives 90 minutes at good quality DVD
4000kbps is seen as VHS quality and gives 120 minutes per disc/4.3 Gb.

In addition use Digital Dolby as the audio type, this will further reduce the file size.

Rendering your existing project using 4000 will reduce the bit rate below 4 Gb.
Use Make Movie Templates Manager to create your template.