After a long render, file too big!

plyall wrote on 4/18/2004, 4:31 PM
Folks -

I have been converting som of my old favorite laserdiscs to DVD. In fact, some of them aren't available on DVD!

In this case, I converted Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound of Thunder and after some minor editing (taking out the laserdisc flip point, etc.) applied the smart smoother filter and some audio limiting, and set it to render. Holy crow! It took almost 36 hours to render on a 2.4G Pentium system.

In any case, I am prepping it in DVD Architect and the file appears too big (4.9G). I tried miving the IN and OUT points a little bit to try to shrink the the file size, but that didn't seem to do much.

I looked at reducing the default video bitrate in DVDA, but that didn't seem to do much either, I'm not anxious to sacrifice the video quality, and lord knows I really don't want to re-render this beast.

Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Thanks!

Comments

rs170a wrote on 4/18/2004, 4:35 PM
You can try using DVD Shrink from www.dvdshrink.org to squeeze it down. It's not a huge squeeze so the quality hit probably won't even be noticed.

Mike
ibliss wrote on 4/18/2004, 4:43 PM
Did you render the audio in AC3 format? This will save a lot of disc space.
plyall wrote on 4/18/2004, 4:47 PM
Will DVD Shrink operate on the .MPG and .AC3 file that Vegas created?
plyall wrote on 4/18/2004, 5:06 PM
Yup - audio was rendered to AC3 and the video was rendered to MPG, as per the normal DVDA template.

The movie runs just about 1:37...
Flack wrote on 4/18/2004, 5:26 PM
I use shrink all the time , I just create my project, it might warn you of file size to big but just ignore it, ( I use DVD Lab ) and then with the vob files I just load them in to shrink and let it do its stuff.... works great, I have shrunk a 6.5 gig file down to fit on a dvd and the quality was fine.


Flack
rs170a wrote on 4/18/2004, 5:45 PM
"Will DVD Shrink operate on the .MPG and .AC3 file that Vegas created? "

No. It only works on the VIDEO/AUDIO_TS folders that DVDA creates.

I'm surprised at the file size though. I just finished a 1hr. 20 min. vacation video and it came in at 3.8GB (18.2 GB before authoring).

Mike
TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/18/2004, 6:13 PM
That size sounds more like a PCM audio encode. I don't have DVDA or the AC3 encoder, and a 1:40 movie was just to big for one disk (4.7gb disk) so I had to split into 2 disks. How many channels of audio?
plyall wrote on 4/19/2004, 9:49 AM
Nope - I encoded the stereo audio to .AC3. I wonder if the 'smart smoother' filter adds that much information to the original video? I used it on its 'light' setting.