Hope someone can help me here. I imported a MOV file from a live music performance that lasted just over and hour. The original MOV file is just over 9 gigs. I tried to split the MOV file into two parts, & deleted the second part in my timeline, thinking that perhaps I could burn each part separately. However, when I go to Tools Burn DVD, it reports the project is too large to burn to standard DVD, citing the file size of the whole MOV file... even though part of it is deleted.

I then tried to convert the original MOV file to an MPEG2, using AVS4U. This worked fine, and I imported it to the original timeline, got rid of the MOV file references in the project, and synched it up with the exiting audio (6 MP3 files, each about 1.6 megs. The new MPEG2 file is less than 2 gigs. However, Vegas is still reporting that the project burn size is over 5 gigs?!?! How can this be? The audio files, etc., don't even add up to a gig.

I'm trying to provide a client with two DVDs of the original show, part 1 and part 2, but I'm having a hell of a time dealing with the MOV file & apparently the MPEG2 file isn't getting me there either. I tried using HJSplit to split the MOV file into two parts, which worked... even though it took quite a long time... but Vegas could not read/import the resulting two split files... didn't recognize them as useable media and suggested they were corrupted.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to avoid putting this on a single double layer or blue ray disc because I'm not sure if my client has the proper players or DVD drives, etc.

Thanks!