• Video

  17 answers, most recent on 2/15/2008

  RE: BASIC DVD QUESTION
  The math here is so simple you can also do it in your head, if you wish. Just divide 600 by the number of minutes of video. The result represents the average total bitrate to shoot for (including the audio bitrate). So to get the average bitrate
• DVD Architect

  4 answers, most recent on 1/31/2008

  RE: Video doubles in size?
  A WMV is not DVD-compliant, so DVD Architect has to re-encode it as an MPEG2 (which is DVD compliant). When you give DVD Architect a file that needs to be re-encoded, it's estimates the final project size using whatever bitrate you tell it to (File
• DVD Architect

  12 answers, most recent on 12/19/2007

  Error with DL DVD Render with DVDA 4.5b build 77
  I used to use DVDA 3.0, and I recently upgraded to Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 8 and DVDA 4.5b. DVDA 3.0 worked perfectly when it came to rendering files. I upgraded for the DL capabilities, and now I can't render a DL file. It goes over 80% (I
• DVD Architect

  4 answers, most recent on 11/3/2007

  RE: Fit to disc doesn't work?
  when I import it into DVD Architect 3, it says that it's 22 gigs. For the record, that number you see in the bottom right corner isn't the "size" of your AVI, but rather what DVD Architect estimates the project will be once it gets done re-encoding
• DVD Architect

  4 answers, most recent on 11/3/2007

  RE: Fit to disc doesn't work?
  DVD video has to meet certain specs. DVDA like many other authoring apps is trying to help out when it says your video won't work & offers solutions. As an avi file can be almost anything -- any codec and/or frame size -- any fps &/or
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  5 answers, most recent on 10/15/2007

  Not able to burn DVD as menu exceeds 1GB
  I am a lady in my 70's and a total beginner. I have prepared and burnt several quite long family holiday DVD's but this time I have struck a problem. I have 53 minutes edited programmme ready to burn, that includes the video vision, added text,
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  No answers, created on 10/12/2007

  Not able to burn DVD as menu exceeds 1GB
  I am a lady in my 70's and a total beginner. I have prepared and burnt several quite long family holiday DVD's but this time I have struck a problem. I have 53 minutes edited programmme ready to burn, that includes the video vision, added text,
• Video

  7 answers, most recent on 10/3/2007

  RE: Rendering Vegas Project
  Well, the safe area is just a rough estimate of what will definitely appear on screen. TVs always masked part of the picture, and a TV could have it's horizontal and vertical adjustments skewed by a user, so it was never expected that a TV would
• DVD Architect

  5 answers, most recent on 9/14/2007

  RE: menu limit/size?
  99 menus in a project. No size limit per menu, but all menus together can add up to no more than 1GB. How much space a menu will take depends on what bitrate you use and how long it runs. Go to File > Optimize DVD to check current
• Video

  133 answers, most recent on 8/24/2007

  RE: Vegas Pro 8 at IBC?
  IBC is Sept 6-11 http://www.ibc.org/cgi-bin/displaypage.cgi?pageref=100 Regarding DVD Arch. 4.5: Vegas Movie Studio version 8.0 has already been available for some time, and includes a DVD Arch Studio 4.5. The 4.5 additions to Arch Studio seems
• DVD Architect

  6 answers, most recent on 9/6/2007

  RE: 4.3gb wont fit on a 4.7gb dvd?
  Also note that your DVD isn't really 4.7GB. There's no such thing as a 4.7GB DVD -- the DVD manufacturers just want you to think there is. For sales purposes (mainly to make you think you're getting more than you are), they advertise with the
• DVD Architect

  6 answers, most recent on 9/6/2007

  RE: 4.3gb wont fit on a 4.7gb dvd?
  DVD Architect is notoriously wrong on it's size estimates. Ignore it and try burning anyway.
• Video

  21 answers, most recent on 7/7/2007

  RE: OT: Disc printing software.
  >>...you have to estimate size a little... What I did: I actually measured the DVD blank dimentions; all of them. I then made an *actual size* Photoshop template and fit all elements around that. Works perfectly. Also, Photoshop will
• Video

  21 answers, most recent on 7/7/2007

  RE: OT: Disc printing software.
  If you're willing to pay a few bucks (I think it's $100 or so) Photoshop elements has a disk label system. I do all of my disk artwork in PS (including the curved print) and the export as jpg, which i then import to my disk printer... works pretty
• DVD Architect

  12 answers, most recent on 5/29/2007

  RE: DVDA4 Size Estimation Waaaaaaaaay Off
  Could it be that it is calculating necessary disc space when it gets recompressed? Yes. The Disc Space Used is an estimate of what the final size of the DVD will be. If DVD Architect has to re-encode any content, then the Disc Space Used will
• DVD Architect

  2 answers, most recent on 2/28/2007

  RE: someone tell me!
  "...why does dvd-a do this..." A pure guess: DVDA doesn't know how big some content files are going to be until they're in final form. DVDA 4 will drop the estimate after you render the proj to hdd, after it's compressed the video menus, along with
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  3 answers, most recent on 2/18/2007

  RE: Why is DVDAS expanding my MPEGs?
  The second file is not a standard format for DVD's. As a result DVDAS will need to recompress the file. DVDAS frequently gets size estimates incorrect when it has to recompress something. Another possibility is that the bitrate for recompression
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  3 answers, most recent on 2/23/2007

  no disk space in dvd arch?
  I have home movies totalling one hour and 30 minutes i have captured in vms 6.0 and sent to dvd arch to make movie. It says "estimated size of project is larger than default space on media- my dvd says 120 minutes?
• DVD Architect

  One answer, on 12/17/2006

  RE: File size differs in DVDA Studio 3.0
  There are (at least) two possibilities: 1. DVDA Studio 3.0 is just wrong, which most flavors of DVD Architect often are. It gets better at estimating project sizes with each version, though, and if your friend has the 2.0 release of regular DVD
• DVD Architect

  2 answers, most recent on 10/11/2006

  RE: How to make files fit
  DVD video is based on MPEG2. So, yes, converting your Divx files to MPEG2 will give you about the same file size if you just added the DivX files to your project (because DVD Architect is going to go ahead and convert them to MPEG2). If you want
• DVD Architect

  One answer, on 9/24/2006

  RE: How DVDA calculates files size ?
  From the windows perspective, you can only have about 4.37GB on a DVD, so you may be near the limit. Beyond that, DVDA and DVDAS are both well known for not being able to correctly estimate final project sizes. --Scott
• DVD Architect

  5 answers, most recent on 9/21/2006

  RE: WHAT AM I DOING WRONG???
  Anytime DVDA has to deal with possibly recompressing things, it gives strange indications about space requirements. This has been the case since 1.0 of the product, and while I think work has been done to improve things, there are still a few
• Video

  19 answers, most recent on 9/15/2006

  RE: mpeg help!!!
  DVD Architect is notorious for over estimating file sizes. As long as you know the total file size correct, burn away :-) Mike
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  3 answers, most recent on 9/13/2006

  RE: How to tell the size
  VMS doesn't provide that info. It's a video editor, not a DVD authoring tool. There are some calculators on the net that can give you a very good size estimate based on your length, bitrate, etc. Go to google and type the search term "bitrate