Can't prepare-folder too small

J D wrote on 6/2/2007, 3:36 PM
I converted a home-made movie to MPEG1. It needed a little editing, so I used Sony Vegas to edit and make MPEG1 of that. Now when I go to prepare/burn in Architect, I get a prompt saying that the folder is too small. It's a new folder, completely empty. The MPEG1 I made in Vegas and sent to Architect is 2.41 GB, whereas the original MPEG1 is only 580 MB. I added only one small picture (JPEG--30.8 KB). The project in Architect is only 44.5 KB, itself. Don't know why it's gotten so big. I've tried compressing it in properties. I can't get past this prompt to burn. Any suggestions?

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Chienworks wrote on 6/2/2007, 4:57 PM
DVDs are always MPEG2, so DVD Architect has to convert your MPEG1 video to MPEG2 in order to prepare the DVD. While it's doing that it's also setting the compression settings to something more appropriate for DVD and therefore making the file larger.

The "folder size" warning is a bit misleading. What it actually means is that the hard drive doesn't have enough space to create two 2.41GB files. It has to create the MPEG2 version at 2.41GB, and then prepare a VOB file that will take another 2.41GB. You may have to clean up some space on your hard drive to allow this to happen.

J D wrote on 6/4/2007, 2:39 PM
Thank you. What if I re-convert the original movie to MPEG2? I have a program that will do that.
Chienworks wrote on 6/4/2007, 3:23 PM
I wouldn't bother converting the original movie as there is nothing to be gained by that. However, when you render from Vegas, you can render to MPEG 2 using one of the DVD Architect templates. That will assure that your finished video file will be in the format that DVDA expects and it won't have to be reprocessed. Of course, this will probably produce a file around 2.4GB, so you'll still have to make sure you've got at least 4.8GB free on your drive.
GeorgeW wrote on 6/4/2007, 5:28 PM
DVDs are always MPEG2, so DVD Architect has to convert your MPEG1 video to MPEG2 in order to prepare the DVD.

You can use dvd-compliant mpeg-1 for DVD (which is within DVD Specifications). However, DVDA does not allow dvd-compliant mpeg-1 on DVD. There are other SD DVD Authoring tools that will allow the use of dvd-compliant mpeg-1...