Can not record 2 hours on a DVD

mstout · Post by **mstout** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:23 am

My project is 1 hour 49 minutes long, but it seems I can only put 1 hour 23 minutes on a DVD. What did I do wrong? What can I do to make the project fit on a DVD?

All help appreciated. Using Videostudio 7.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:54 am

1) You can play with a combination of a lower bitrate and (possibly) audio compression -- a bitrate of around 6000 bps will normally allow about 1 hr 30 minutes on a single-layer DVD; LPCM audio format produces larger files than MPEG audio, though you might have trouble with the latter if you come from the US and your DVD player is an older one. Unfortunately, VS7 does not support Dolby audio.

2) You can produce a Video_TS file of your original video and then use a third-party program like DVD Shrink or Nero Recode to ensure it fits on a single-layer disc. End quality remains excellent with either of these two programs.

mstout · Post by **mstout** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:41 pm

Thank you!
I'm sure I'll get it worked out.

imac · Post by **imac** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 11:02 am

In the V9 trial, there is a fit to disk option. It's at the bottom of a screen, can't remember where. I re-installed Windows, but because I'm waiting on V9 I didn't re0install the trial.

I was playing around with the program to see what is was like, I liked it and ordered it.

mstout · Post by **mstout** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:18 pm

imac wrote:In the V9 trial, there is a fit to disk option. It's at the bottom of a screen, can't remember where. I re-installed Windows, but because I'm waiting on V9 I didn't re0install the trial.

I was playing around with the program to see what is was like, I liked it and ordered it.

Thank you. I found the setting to change the length of time on a DVD and my problem is solved. I asked before totally exploring my options.

I had panicked, and it was late and I was tired.

Thanks everyone for your help.

lgballer · Post by **lgballer** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:54 pm

Where is this fit to disk option? Thanks

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 1:04 am

lgballer wrote:Where is this fit to disk option? Thanks

It's new to UVS 9, and is on the last screen of the "Create Disk" wizard where you would orginarily start the burning process.

lgballer · Post by **lgballer** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:43 pm

I found the fit to disc option. The wizard showed I would need ~5.7 GB so I had to use the fit to disc.
When I tried to burn about 1 hr 51 mins of video to dvd with VS9 trial, the process took like 6-7 hours and finally froze up. The video files that I was using were on a external hard drive connected with a Usb cable. (2.0 i think) Not sure if this had anything to do with it. My computer is 3ghz with 1G of ram.
I'm going to try again with the files on one of my internal hard drives and see how that works out.

lgballer · Post by **lgballer** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:48 pm

mstout:
were you able to create the dvd successfully with the fit to disc option? How long did it take? Thanks.

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:46 pm

I have used it, and it was successful.

This weekend for instance I used my 1.5GHz P4 laptop to convert a two-hour DV AVI file (~26GB) to an ISO file ready for burning on my desktop. UVS 9 reduced the file to a 3.9GB file, which was overly aggressive and wasted hundreds of megabytes of available single-layer DVD disk space.

Because I thought that I could do better in terms of quality, I ran a previously created (also using UVS 9) dual-layer DVD of the same TV program through DVD Shrink just to compare it. DVD Shrink did use nearly the full single-layer disk, but the quality of the video was worse than the smaller file produced by UVS 9. Given that UVS 9 had the full-quality DV data to work with, that shouldn't be a total surprise.

In my opinion, the Burn To Fit feature is nice, but could be improved upon. UVS could do a better job estimating the storage requirements, and it should always give you the option to adjust the bitrate it calculated.

Also, when exposing the advanced options in the UVS MPEG encoder, it isn't possible to tweak the minimum, average, and peak bitrate values independently without them getting reset. If that feature worked correctly and was simply seeded with the Burn To Fit values, it could also improve the video quality.