dvd burnung
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dvd burnung
I have a trial version now. Whe I burn a dvd with several songs they take up a lot of space. On other burners I have used I could get at least 30 songs on a disc, but when burning with x4 I get 20. The only difference is I used normalizing. Any suggestions? The files are .mp4. The disc is 4.7 GB. dvd+r. I like the program and wish to buy it.
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Re: dvd burnung
Welcome to the forums! 
If you are burning a standard definition video DVD, then your original .mp4 files will be converted to mpeg-2. There is nothing you can do about that since mpeg-2 is the international standard for a video DVD. If, moreover, you are using the default settings, then you would be able to fit about one hour of video onto a single layer DVD. The default uses a bitrate of 8000 kbps, and it is the bitrate which determines how much you can fit on a DVD and what quality it will have. If you want to fit more songs onto the DVD, then you will need to reduce the bitrate: Share > Create Video File > Custom. Then select the Options button, and on the Compression tab which appears, change the bitrate to, say, 6000 kbps. This will allow 90 minutes of video to be burned and the quality should still be good. For two hours of video, the bitrate would need to be around 4000 kbps, but the quality will be no better than a VHS tape.
If, on the other hand, you want to simply burn your edited mp4's in that same format, then you cannot use Video Studio. VS will burn a *video* DVD, and as I said above, the international standard requires the final video to be converted to mpeg-2. But if your original videos are, say, DivX or XVid .mp4, then you simply edit your videos in VS, save them in the same format (Share > Create Video File > Same As First Clip). Then you use any other burning program you might have to burn the clips to a DVD, but not as a video DVD. Instead you simply burn them as files and the DVD becomes an archive DVD. However, if they are DivX/XVid, then most DVD players will nonetheless recognise that format and play them.
If you are burning a standard definition video DVD, then your original .mp4 files will be converted to mpeg-2. There is nothing you can do about that since mpeg-2 is the international standard for a video DVD. If, moreover, you are using the default settings, then you would be able to fit about one hour of video onto a single layer DVD. The default uses a bitrate of 8000 kbps, and it is the bitrate which determines how much you can fit on a DVD and what quality it will have. If you want to fit more songs onto the DVD, then you will need to reduce the bitrate: Share > Create Video File > Custom. Then select the Options button, and on the Compression tab which appears, change the bitrate to, say, 6000 kbps. This will allow 90 minutes of video to be burned and the quality should still be good. For two hours of video, the bitrate would need to be around 4000 kbps, but the quality will be no better than a VHS tape.
If, on the other hand, you want to simply burn your edited mp4's in that same format, then you cannot use Video Studio. VS will burn a *video* DVD, and as I said above, the international standard requires the final video to be converted to mpeg-2. But if your original videos are, say, DivX or XVid .mp4, then you simply edit your videos in VS, save them in the same format (Share > Create Video File > Same As First Clip). Then you use any other burning program you might have to burn the clips to a DVD, but not as a video DVD. Instead you simply burn them as files and the DVD becomes an archive DVD. However, if they are DivX/XVid, then most DVD players will nonetheless recognise that format and play them.
Ken Berry