File gets bigger in DVD Architect?

noah2112 wrote on 1/28/2009, 11:40 AM

Hi Im using version 4.0 and I noticed that the file gets significantly bigger when I bring it to DVD architect. For example a file was 4.6 after editing with VMS and when I brought it to DVD Architect it was over a gig larger. Why does this happen and is there a way to fix this?

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/28/2009, 6:31 PM

could be DVDA is lying to no. Nobody really knows why, but it's been doing this since it came out. Try doing a prepare. If it really IS larger, it will tell you it needs to optimize/rerender.

Terje wrote on 1/31/2009, 9:06 PM

What do you encode to in VMS? If you encode to a heavily compressed format, for example wmv, then DVDA has to uncompress that, re-encode it into MPEG-2 and then burn the DVD. Depending on how much footage you have, this may increase the file size significantly.

What matters is not really how big the file is, but how long the video is. More than one hour and you're going to run into size vs quality issues.