• Video

  36 answers, most recent on 10/23/2005

  RE: DVD problem: urgent help appreciated
  and 4.7GB DVDs max out at 4.38GB, so no wonder it didn't fit. True enough, but the point I tried to make from the very beginning of this thread is that he was over by such a large amount that it couldn't be explained by DVDA's poor estimation
• Video

  36 answers, most recent on 10/23/2005

  RE: DVD problem: urgent help appreciated
  I've successfully rendered projects in DVD-A that have said up to 4.9 GB (in DVD-A, not the mpg file) Me too. As others have said, DVDA's estimates are lousy. However, James said the size reported was 6.2GBytes, and even DVDA's estimates aren't
• Video

  36 answers, most recent on 10/23/2005

  RE: DVD problem: urgent help appreciated
  Here is the problem: as this file is brought to DVDA, the size bloats to 6.2GB. DVDA misses on the estimation sometimes. Perhaps it's doubling the audio or something. Just make sure the settings are correct (i.e. AC3 for the audio) and go ahead and
• Video

  22 answers, most recent on 9/20/2005

  RE: avi vs mpeg-2 file rendering; which is better
  I completed a quick check between rendering in Vegas and Architect. When I render out of Vegas using all default settings, I obtain a mpeg-2 file that is about 1.9 Gigs for a 60 minute video (Default template has the following: Audio: 224 Kbps,
• DVD Architect

  3 answers, most recent on 9/14/2005

  Error Message
  I keep getting the error message "There is not enough space in the temporary files folder for preparing the DVD". The help files say "You can specify a different folder on the Burning tab of the Preferences dialog" Choose a folder on the drive
• DVD Architect

  5 answers, most recent on 8/1/2005

  RE: Why Render?
  The total space these 15 segments take up on my HD is 4.1Gb but if I drag them all into DVDA it comes out at 5.7Gb Two possible reasons: 1. DVDA is lying. It's notoriously bad at estimating the final project size, and it always overestimates. If
• DVD Architect

  No answers, created on 7/21/2005

  menu size problem
  I have project whit animated menu. My menu is a static BG and animated video (30% from TV screen) my problem is: when i make DVD i have masage "The estimated totaal size of all menus is greater than the maximum 1GB" this is on 9.000 Mbps, i make
• DVD Architect

  One answer, on 6/28/2005

  RE: Two Pass Compression???
  I would suggest using a bitrate calculator rather than relying on DVDA's usually poor size estimates: http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm You don't have access to 2-pass encoding from DVDA, so if you want to use it you must do the mpeg encoding from
• DVD Architect

  3 answers, most recent on 6/15/2005

  RE: re: Clearing Media in DVDA
  I can delete it by clicking on the red X, but it doesn't seem to free up the disc space on the DVD space usage visual down in the lower right-hand corner. I believe that by hitting the red X, you're just deleting that particular stream (be it audio
• DVD Architect

  3 answers, most recent on 5/29/2005

  RE: wierdness: how can this be?
  have a project in DVDA, rendered from VV5 with DVDA NTSC template I suspect you mean the DVD NTSC template. The DVDA NTSC template doesn't include audio. Best to use the DVDA NTSC template for video and do the audio separately. How can the
• DVD Architect

  3 answers, most recent on 3/31/2005

  RE: dvda file to big
  If your files were small enough to fit on a DVD before you brought them into DVDA, then ignore its warnings. DVDA is very bad at estimating the final project size. Rob
• DVD Architect

  8 answers, most recent on 3/9/2005

  RE: Won't Burn DVD
  I guess my successfully burning hundreds of DVD's using DVDA must be just blind luck then. I never had any problem burning with DVDA either, although it always seemed very rough around the edges (lousy estimates of time to completion; no easy
• DVD Architect

  4 answers, most recent on 3/3/2005

  RE: Media Size discrepancy, why?
  There are 2 factors at work here. 1) DVDA's inability to accurately estimate project sizes and 2) base 2 vs. base 10 counting. The 4.7GB printed on the DVD is a base 10 number; windows shows you sizes base 2, so from a windoze perspective you can
• DVD Architect

  4 answers, most recent on 3/3/2005

  RE: Media Size discrepancy, why?
  Does any one know how i fix this or get around this problem. Yep. Call DVDA a bloody liar. Then go ahead and prepare your DVD files. Ignore DVDA's estimate -- it's wrong. Always is. Someone here has explained what DVDA is doing wrong, I think,
• Video

  5 answers, most recent on 1/10/2005

  RE: Setting end point to burn half the video, why 6.3 gb?
  According to the documentation (I know, who in their right mind reads the documentation): "You can set in and out points if you don't want to burn your entire video file to DVD" So, assuming the documentaiton is correct (which might be a bad
• DVD Architect

  2 answers, most recent on 1/8/2005

  RE: Huge MPEG problem-HELP PLEASE
  If DVDA is recompressing your MPEG, then you'll frequently find it's size estimates are incorrect. The optimize screen should tell you if DVDA thinks it needs to recompress. You should be rendering from Vegas using one of the DVDA templates -
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  2 answers, most recent on 12/27/2004

  RE: Maximum length of DVD?
  I have DVDA, and yes Chienworks, when you click the Make DVD/Prepare DVD/Optimize .avi files, it tells you the "estimated" disk usage. you can change the bit rate from the default of 8mbps to whatever to make it fit. i have not reached over 100%
• DVD Architect

  One answer, on 12/25/2004

  Estimated Size of all Menus > 1GB
  All I want to do right now is a single movie, no menu. I just want to burn my video to a DV, pop it in a player and have the contents play. I've done this successfully a half dozen times. On my latest project, I get the captioned message when I
• Video

  5 answers, most recent on 12/10/2004

  RE: DVD Mpg Question
  Because windows is showing you the value based on a base 2 numbering system and DVDA is showing you it base 10. In computers, 1K is actually 1024, not 1000. So a 4.7GB DVD (which is a base 10 representation), is 4700 x 1K (1000). To windows you
• DVD Architect

  6 answers, most recent on 12/9/2004

  DL Burn Success!!
  Ok, I finally got all the parts to try this. First, the disclaimer. SonyEPM has posted in another thread that DL burning of DVDA projects is not supported - we already know that DVDA cannot handle a DL burn itself, but the statement of no support
• DVD Architect

  One answer, on 12/2/2004

  RE: Why is project too big?
  In order to get that much video on a DVD you'll need to lower your average bitrate down to around 5,200 Kbps - assuming you don't have a fancy motion menu with animated thumbnails, in which case you'd need to drop down even further. Lots of chapter
• DVD Architect

  6 answers, most recent on 11/9/2004

  RE: Follwed the advice on this forum, but ...?
  If you're going to let DVDA optimize the project, then don't bother to render from Vegas - if DVDA optimizes, it must first decompress the video, then recompress it at a lower bit rate according to what it estimates. Not only do you lose by going
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  8 answers, most recent on 11/18/2004

  RE: Long Rendering/Unable to Mix Audio
  Thanks for your help - here is what I have so far, and will follow up with another post: I created the DV-AVI file per your suggestion, and received a new message - "An error occured while creating the media file. An error occurred writing the
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  13 answers, most recent on 11/1/2004

  RE: What to do...compression ?
  DVDA is really bad about estimating sizes for finished projects. If you don't have complex menus (like motion menus or animated thumbnails) then your DVD size should be fairly close to the sum of the sizes of your individual MPG files.