Burning a large DVD

[Berzelius]

I have seven mpeg2 clips, totalling 3hr 30min, that I wish to burn to a DVD. At the moment I am producing the project as 2 DVDs, each less than 2 hours. What I would like to do is to produce a single DVD. I realise that the quality will be poor but what I wish to do is to produce this single DVD and see for myself what the quality is like. At the moment I get the error message "Convert step got some problems" when I try to burn all 7 files as a DVD. Is there any way to get round this to produce the single DVD?

[canuck]

Don't bother trying to put 3:30 hours of video on a standard DVD - it will be very poor quality.

You could use "customize" and set the bitrate as low as possible but I don't think it is possible to compress 3:30 hours to fit on a 4.7GB DVD since the lowest bitrate possible is 1775

[lata]

Hi

If you convert your 7 video files to a compliant Mpeg2 file then the burner module will not convert again, so you should not get that error message.
The total size of all 7 files had to be less than 4.3 Gb to fit to disc
You should use a Thumbnail or Text menu and deselect motion menu to save disc space.

Using Batch convert set the convert properties to:-
MPEG files
24 bits, 720 x 576, 25 fps
Lower Field First, (as original, may be Upper Field)
(DVD-PAL), 16:9
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 2300 kbps)
Audio data rate: 256 kbps
Dolby Digital Audio, 48 KHz, 2/0(L,R)

Once you have all 7 converted, start a new project, Share Create Disc DVD, opens the burner module
Now add your new video files.
The green size / duration bar at the bottom should be all green with no yellow and certainly no red.
Project Settings should have Do Not Convert Compliant Mpeg selected ( ticked)

On the last page choose to create an ISO rather than a disc, should be under 4.3 Gb
you can play the ISO using VLC Media Player to check quality, if ok burn that ISO to disc using Tools Burn from Disc Image…

[allynwillard]

Try using a Dual Layer DVD (8.5 GB). You may be able to get a 3.5 hour video on it.