Cut A Video For 2 DVD's?

stevec5000 wrote on 11/25/2009, 7:48 AM
I wanted to burn a video onto DVD but at 2 hrs and 7 1/2 Gb. it's too large to fit on a disc. I don't have any dual layer discs so I thought the program would be smart enough to burn one then say to insert a second one but it just halted after rendering for 2 hrs. I searched the Help but can't find a way to cut the file in half and burn it on 2 discs manually either but it must come up often so there has to be a way.
Does anyone have any tips on burning a full length movie to 2 DVD's? Thanks.

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Terry Esslinger wrote on 11/25/2009, 8:58 AM
The obvious? : Render it out as 2 one hour movies?
stevec5000 wrote on 11/25/2009, 9:05 AM
Yes, but how? There's no option to render anything in 2 parts which is why I'm asking. It's not obvious how to do anything in Vegas.
musicvid10 wrote on 11/25/2009, 9:13 AM
2 hours on a DVD is not too much if you are willing to take a small quality hit. That means it will come in at 4 to 4.5Mbs.

If you are using DVDA to author your disc, use the "Optimize" function to fit the video to your standard disc.

Otherwise use the In and Out points in DVDA to prepare your individual discs.
stevec5000 wrote on 11/25/2009, 9:19 AM
I didn't want to compress it and make it worse but there's no "Optimize" function anyway, it just starts rendering the whole thing right away.
I have no idea what you mean by In and Out points in DVDA ?
The only way I can find to do this is load the whole thing, cut off the last half, render and burn that, then load it again and cut off the first half and render and burn that but it takes ALL DAY!
MSmart wrote on 11/25/2009, 9:48 AM
takes ALL DAY!

Yes, it does. No way around it.

I make DVDs with over 2-hours on them all the time, quality is still very good (even down to ~4500 bps). YMMV.

The "Optimize" function is in DVDA, Fit to Disc.

If you have a 2-hour video on the timeline, either create a loop point of the the first have, render with loop point only checked, then do the other half. Or do as you did, split the video and delete each part and render seperately.

But I bet if you tried giving DVDA all 2-hours and Fit to Dis, you'd be happy with the results. Try it on a RW disc and see.
musicvid10 wrote on 11/25/2009, 10:44 AM
I didn't want to compress it and make it worse

Then use an MPEG-2 splitter/joiner to make 2 separate files. I use VideoReDo, but there are free ones also. Do a google.
stevec5000 wrote on 11/25/2009, 1:56 PM
I tried VideoReDo and it worked OK until the trial period ran out but I can't afford to buy it just for that. I was hoping there was an easier way to do the cutting in Vegas besides having to cut it manually and then rendering and burning the discs separately..
stevec5000 wrote on 11/28/2009, 10:25 PM
The Optimize button doesn't do anything but give me an error saying: "Media file is too big and could not fit into single DVD disc"!
What good is that? I already knew it wouldn't fit! The program should shrink it to fit instead of just producing an error.
musicvid10 wrote on 11/29/2009, 6:43 AM
The program should shrink it to fit
That's exactly what the Optimize feature is intended to do. I suspect something is amiss in your workflow, project, or preferences.
MSmart wrote on 11/29/2009, 8:07 AM
Did you then click the Fit to Disc button?

DVDA lets you adjust the bit bit rate, default it 8.000 Mbps. The Fit to Disc button automatically adjusts the bitrate down so the video will fit on the disc. You can also manually adjust the bit rate by typing the value or dragging the slider.