Has anyone tried burning a large project (> 4.5GB) onto a 8.5GB DVD via Corel, share function?
I tried today, but the program detected the 8.5Gb DVD as a regular 4.5GB one, and had pop ups saying that there is not enough disk space.
Is 4.5 GB DVD the only option for Corel Video X7?
Thanks for your help!
Burning onto 8.5 Gb DVD via Corel vid x7
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BrianCee
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Re: Burning onto 8.5 Gb DVD via Corel vid x7
I am not sure that I have ever noticed that the programme "detects" the size of your DVD -- have you tried selecting the 8.5 GB option manually by clicking on the drop down in the bottom left hand corner and then selecting 8.5 ?
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Re: Burning onto 8.5 Gb DVD via Corel vid x7
I have tried this with previous versions of VS, and there are some 'unstated' tricks to this operation.
1. Apart from selecting an 8.5Gb (assumed DL) DVD in share, as Brian suggested, your system needs to be running its file system formatted for NTFS. Like many programs, VS creates a burn version a little bit at a time by appending data to a created file, before 'sending it' to the disk. FAT16 and FAT32 file systems have significantly lower file size limits, a major reason for creating NTFS back in the dim stages of computer time. And at 4Gb FAT32 says file full and writes the closing parts to the disk anyway. Something I found out by trial and error when the video file I was burning kept stopping (as in, disk played on player/Tv combo and that's what happened) about 70% through, 4Gb being that proportion of the whole file. One would think that if the working folder (see the preferences list, which is where all these transient files are stored) was on an NTFS formatted disk, that would not be a problem. All I can say is that unless the whole system - especially the OS C:\ drive - is on NTFS I got consistent results: it broke when the file size being burnt reached the FAT32 limit.
2. Once I got over the NTFS formatted folder issue (by waiting for the next windows upgrade to provide an NTFS partition (the MS convert utility on XP3 worked on every folder but C, where it consistently failed), DL disks have persistently caused errors, even when the DVD size is right and the file format is NTFS, in the 2nd layer. ie in the upper portion of the file size. To read this layer, the player has to "read thru the top" layer - something which has caused many people grief. I found that it usually has generated error messages just after parts of the image being displayed pixelates, and the images looks to frozen indicating the player has lost its recoverable signal and can't recover. Repeat playing doesn't seem break at the same point. Which is a pretty expensive waste of a DL or even QL disk.
I got quite a bit of advice from the forum, a lot of it focussed on brand (ie brand x works brand y doesn't) but in summary it all came down to "don't do it". I gave up after much effort and just focussed on multiple 4.7gb DVD's with menu remarks eg disk 1 of 3, and waited some more for the developing the blu-ray technology to become general and affordable. A blu-ray disk doesn't cost as much as a DL DVD used to, and it gets 25Gb on the top layer - which should be more than enough if your movie is good for an 8.5 Gb disk.
Davidk
1. Apart from selecting an 8.5Gb (assumed DL) DVD in share, as Brian suggested, your system needs to be running its file system formatted for NTFS. Like many programs, VS creates a burn version a little bit at a time by appending data to a created file, before 'sending it' to the disk. FAT16 and FAT32 file systems have significantly lower file size limits, a major reason for creating NTFS back in the dim stages of computer time. And at 4Gb FAT32 says file full and writes the closing parts to the disk anyway. Something I found out by trial and error when the video file I was burning kept stopping (as in, disk played on player/Tv combo and that's what happened) about 70% through, 4Gb being that proportion of the whole file. One would think that if the working folder (see the preferences list, which is where all these transient files are stored) was on an NTFS formatted disk, that would not be a problem. All I can say is that unless the whole system - especially the OS C:\ drive - is on NTFS I got consistent results: it broke when the file size being burnt reached the FAT32 limit.
2. Once I got over the NTFS formatted folder issue (by waiting for the next windows upgrade to provide an NTFS partition (the MS convert utility on XP3 worked on every folder but C, where it consistently failed), DL disks have persistently caused errors, even when the DVD size is right and the file format is NTFS, in the 2nd layer. ie in the upper portion of the file size. To read this layer, the player has to "read thru the top" layer - something which has caused many people grief. I found that it usually has generated error messages just after parts of the image being displayed pixelates, and the images looks to frozen indicating the player has lost its recoverable signal and can't recover. Repeat playing doesn't seem break at the same point. Which is a pretty expensive waste of a DL or even QL disk.
I got quite a bit of advice from the forum, a lot of it focussed on brand (ie brand x works brand y doesn't) but in summary it all came down to "don't do it". I gave up after much effort and just focussed on multiple 4.7gb DVD's with menu remarks eg disk 1 of 3, and waited some more for the developing the blu-ray technology to become general and affordable. A blu-ray disk doesn't cost as much as a DL DVD used to, and it gets 25Gb on the top layer - which should be more than enough if your movie is good for an 8.5 Gb disk.
Davidk