File Size is increasing in DWS 2

bowers32 · Post by **bowers32** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:14 pm

First, I have been using DWS 2 ever since it came out and have had no problems at all. Have made hundreds of DVD's. Started out this morning and burned 3 or 4 with no problems. THen all of a sudden I go to make another one (which is exactly the same as the other 3) and the file is 2.7 gb, but when I pull it in the edit pannel it shows as 4.6 gb. Any ideas why it is all of a sudden doubling the size of the file?

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:31 pm

Not sure what you mean by pull it in the edit panel.
If the project is already made, when you open it and go to finish, does it still say it's double the size, as you may be adding it to the project again????

bowers32 · Post by **bowers32** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:39 pm

Sorry for not being clear... I open DWS 2, create the name of the project, then pull in the mpeg file from directory. So it is sititng in DWS2 in the video section, then I drag it over to the "new title" area so I can edit.

I know that the file is only 2.7gb, when I full it into DWS2 it shows it as 4.6 gb

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:44 pm

Do you not save your projects? So you can just open them again? If not, then how are you sure it is identical? It sounds like you have either used a different file or added it twice. Can't think of any other reason.

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:54 am

Is the mpeg-2 file non-compliant and it is showing the estimated size after re-encoding?

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:27 am

I've had this several times too and when you do the actual output, being it DVD, folder or image file, it reverts to normal size.
Movie Factory 4 and VS8/VS9 dot that too sometimes, with perfectly legal video files (Video Studio does it with its' own files).

Yesterday I had a 4.3 GB file, fits right on the DVD
I saw the file begins ONE FRAME too soon (last image of previous clip still in). Returning to WS2's edit screen I advance one frame then use the Mark-In to skip the first.
Back to output section the files size is now 4.5GB and does not fit on the DVD anymore. Go figure...

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:24 pm

Easy enough to figure: your project settings are not the same as the settings for the original file.

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:39 pm

yes they were, quadruple-checked, and it's my defaults settings (the one on the top template, always use the same.
Couldn't believe, but fully reproduceable.
The same bug in WS2, VS8, VS9, MF4. Happens from time to time.
Most of the time when you save, exit the program and re-load it corrects the sizes, but not always.
I repeat, rendered files are the right size, if it agrees to go on with just a warning.

In MF4 I had it fall back on it's feet by selecting a moving menu (increases reported size, then going back to static menu)
Then you can have sizes reported as 6.4GB, 6.5GB, 3.7GB. Not always.

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:52 pm

I've never had this in the few years I've used WS, but I always save my projects and re-open them, much quicker than doing it again.

Uryel · Post by **Uryel** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:35 pm

I've had tis problem: DVD WS2 occasionally miscalculates file size, erring on the big side (so what was narrowly fitting DVD-5, now won't). In those cases I burned DVD with Encore which dioesn't suffer from this particular idiosyncrasy.

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