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Movie Too Long Help!!!
Moderator: Ken Berry
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tomrockstar
Movie Too Long Help!!!
I just put together my holiday home video and i put n music and effects. When I went to burn to dvd just before rendering , i get a msg telling me that the movie is too long and it wont fit on a dvd. I was under the impression that videosttudio would split my movie onto 3 discs . Do i really have to start again and make 3 seperate movies?? or can i split my original into 3 movies?
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To answer your question, you can easily cut your movie at points you choose in the timeline and then just save each portion as a seperate, new project.
There are a few choices you have depending on the version of VS you are using. VS9 does allow you to choose to have the program make the movie fit to disc. Another choice would be to customize the settings and change the video bit rate and even the audio size. Again, VS9 has the ability to render audio to AC3 which will be smaller than LPCM. Perhaps another option for you would be to create TS folders instead of burnng to disc and then use a second program, like DVD Shrink to compress your video to fit on a disc. There are a number of others on this forum that are real mavens and I'm sure will be able to give you very specific instructions on what and how to do it but you will have to provide more information such as what version of VS are you using, what is the actual size of the video you want to burn, stuff like this.
Good luck,
Erock
There are a few choices you have depending on the version of VS you are using. VS9 does allow you to choose to have the program make the movie fit to disc. Another choice would be to customize the settings and change the video bit rate and even the audio size. Again, VS9 has the ability to render audio to AC3 which will be smaller than LPCM. Perhaps another option for you would be to create TS folders instead of burnng to disc and then use a second program, like DVD Shrink to compress your video to fit on a disc. There are a number of others on this forum that are real mavens and I'm sure will be able to give you very specific instructions on what and how to do it but you will have to provide more information such as what version of VS are you using, what is the actual size of the video you want to burn, stuff like this.
Good luck,
Erock
I'm pretty lazy. Here's what I do: I "burn" (i.e. save) my DVD as an .iso file (which is a disk image file). Just uncheck the box to create a real DVD and check the box for iso. Then use a program like "DvdShink" (FreeWare program less than 1MB big - do a Google search) to shrink your DVD project to 4.3GB. DVDShrink will create another smaller ISO file that Roxio, Nero etc can make a DVD disk from. Bet you don't even notice the compression on your finished disk. Hey, works for me. Cheers.
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tomrockstar
Cheers for the help guys. I did what ye said (dvd shrink my .iso file). I noticed on the finished dvd that some of the mp3 songs i used were skipping badly.When I previewed my project this was not happening so it must have occured somewhere in the rendering process?? Can u help me with this music issue?
Thanks again.
Tom.
Videostudio 8
160 gig hard drive
512 ram
pentium 3
Thanks again.
Tom.
Videostudio 8
160 gig hard drive
512 ram
pentium 3
tomrockstar --
Not too hard to make 3 disks the manual way.
Choose the two points that will divide your video into three. Cut at those points. I'm assuming that you now have three large clips.
Drag clip 2 and clip 3 to the Library. Then delete clip 2 and clip 3 from your project. What's left is clip 1: author DVD 1.
Then open a new project, drag clip 2 from the Library to your empty Timeline, and author DVD 2.
Repeat for DVD 3.
Obviously you can save the three projects along the way.
Keith
Not too hard to make 3 disks the manual way.
Choose the two points that will divide your video into three. Cut at those points. I'm assuming that you now have three large clips.
Drag clip 2 and clip 3 to the Library. Then delete clip 2 and clip 3 from your project. What's left is clip 1: author DVD 1.
Then open a new project, drag clip 2 from the Library to your empty Timeline, and author DVD 2.
Repeat for DVD 3.
Obviously you can save the three projects along the way.
Keith
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tomrockstar
Hey,
Changing mp3 to wav worked a treat, cheers
I also found that if u save your movie as a _ts file instead of .iso you can use clone dvd to compress it. I found this software much better quality that shrink dvd.
I also notice that parts of my movie (on dvd)were getting stuck (freezing) it turns out this happened at the rendering stage (i checked back!) It's annoying because if you are working on a long movie with lots of clips being rendered you have to check each clip for this problem! Maybe I'm missing smoething but it would be cool if videostudio could detect this when it happens so it wont haunt you later??
|Just thought I'd let ye know
Ta again.
T.
Changing mp3 to wav worked a treat, cheers
I also found that if u save your movie as a _ts file instead of .iso you can use clone dvd to compress it. I found this software much better quality that shrink dvd.
I also notice that parts of my movie (on dvd)were getting stuck (freezing) it turns out this happened at the rendering stage (i checked back!) It's annoying because if you are working on a long movie with lots of clips being rendered you have to check each clip for this problem! Maybe I'm missing smoething but it would be cool if videostudio could detect this when it happens so it wont haunt you later??
|Just thought I'd let ye know
Ta again.
T.