I just made a DVD with 24 minutes, 1.1GB video, with no problems.

How did you prepare the video? Did you select the Main Concept DVD template in Vegas?

Hi Eileen!

Can't quite yell to you across the bay, so I guess I have to write.

Two thoughts:

1. DVDA often thinks a project is too big when, in fact, it isn't. However, that erroneous error message usually only happens when you are a lot closer to the 4.3 GB DVD limit. Your 1.12 GB file shouldn't trigger that response.

2. It is really easy to accidentally cause DVDA to create duplicate copies of the same media. Do you have any compilations? Do you have animated menus or buttons? Are you using multiple angles? Did you use one audio track with one instance of the media, and the use another audio track with a second instance? Any of these things can end up doubling (or tripling) the size of your project.

You can re-use the same media multiple times in the same project, and you can trim it,but as soon as you do something to it that changes what is in it (this includes adding subtitles), you will end up with a second copy. With your 1.12 GB file, if you do something that causes it to get duplicated twice, that could put you in the range of where that "too big to fit" message might be displayed.

Put the DVD that you burned back in the drive, right-click on the drive letter, select Properties, and see how much stuff was actually burned onto the disc. If the disc has 2.2, 3.3 or 4.3 GB, this indicates that you media was duplicated.

I think I have a license for the latest version of DVDA, but I haven't installed it yet. However, if you want to email the DAR file to me (you don't need to send the media) I'll install that new version and take a look and see if I can figure out how the project might have increased in size.

Thanks for your replies... I'll get back to the program tomorrow.

However, this has happened a couple of times recently so maybe I should just try a reinstall.
I'm doing a single movie, no menu, no chapters, very simple.
Rendered my video and audio in Vegas 12 prior to DVDA 6.0 using standard DVDA NTSC 720 x 480 Widescreen and AC-3 pro audio.

I can see that only about 30% of the disc is physically etched/burned and at the same time the message pops up...it also shows only 26% of the space will be used so right there you can see a conflict of info.

Weird thing is once I click OK - go ahead...it burns the disc just fine!
I also just opened a new spindle full of blank dvds so brand isn't an issue from what I can tell.
I'll test it out again tomorrow and see if I get the same message and do a screen shot.

Thanks again,
Eileen ----> to be continued!

I reinstalled DVDA 6.0 #237 and still get the same message...
re: project too large when it isn't~

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z5q5lq10kfd5xng/2DVDA.jpg

I doubt very much that this has anything to do with the media. Also, since you can observe that only 1/3 of the disc is actually burned, that answers the question about whether you are re-using the same media in a way that would cause DVDA to duplicate it rather than simply re-use it.

Re-installing DVDA seemed like a long shot, and I wouldn't have recommended that, but since you did that, we can rule that out.

There have been hundreds of posts over the years, both here and in the DVDA forum, about its pathetic ability to accurately predict the size of a project before burning. On almost every project I burn (and I have burned thousands of DVDA projects) I get a warning about being over sized. In my workflow, I only use DVDA to prepare the project and then use Nero or Imgburn to actually burn the disc. As soon as I drop the media files into the burning program, I know for certain whether or not it will fit.

Bottom line: I have long since learned to completely ignore the warnings.

What makes your situation unique, as I stated in my earlier post, is that you are getting a warning on a project that contains media that is less than 2 GB. This is a long shot, but perhaps it has to do with the nature of the media. What is the format of the video and the audio? Was the video created as a standard MPEG-2 file in Vegas, using one of the standard DVD Architect templates? Is the audio AC-3, or is it PCM? Is the audio embedded in the video, or is it a separate file?

Like I said, I don't have a lot of faith that the answers to those questions will turn up the problem, but its worth a shot. In the meantime, just burn the discs and get on with things. I'm sure they'll work just fine.

I can offer you no solutions, but I can confirm this happens to me every time I burn discs with DVDA. (5.2 as I was told 6.0 had issues)

DVDs, Blu-ray, makes no difference. I ignore the warning and it burns absolutely fine.

+1 to what pilsburypie said. This has been a long standing problem with DVDA.
I get this error from time to time too and know that my files are under the limit. I just ignore the warning and everything works just fine.

Mike