File playback

ilyasdj wrote on 1/10/2005, 9:51 AM

I'm trying to burn a DVD in DVD Architect which includes three separate video files. I would like to merge them to play as one (when I tried to burn, the files only play one at a time and then return to the menu). Any ideas?
My hard drive doesn't have enough space to render the three as one.

Comments

ScottW wrote on 1/10/2005, 11:41 AM

How is it possible that you don't have space to have all three files rendered as one file, but you have space to have the 3 individual files? That makes no sense.

What version of DVDA are you using? Is it DVDA or DVDAS?

bStro wrote on 1/10/2005, 12:20 PM

How is it possible that you don't have space to have all three files rendered as one file, but you have space to have the 3 individual files? That makes no sense.

He has room for the single rendered file, but perhaps he doesn't have room for the process of combining the three.
Rob

ilyasdj wrote on 1/10/2005, 12:27 PM

I have an IOMEGA External Hard Drive which automatically splits up the file into 4.1GB pieces as it renders. It's kind of strange... My PC hard drive only has about 5GB free.

ScottW wrote on 1/10/2005, 12:29 PM

Your drive is formatted as FAT32, rather then NTFS - you should consider converting your drive to NTFS, then you won't get your files split at 4GB.

As far as how to join goes, the answer does depend on what version of the software you are using, and whether you are using DVDA or DVDAS.

--Scott

ilyasdj wrote on 1/10/2005, 12:35 PM

Thanks for the help, I'll check that out!

ScottW wrote on 1/10/2005, 2:46 PM

Also, there's very little to be gained by rendering from Vegas to AVI and then letting DVDA do the compression for you - it's just as easy, and you have more control over the process, to render to MPEG-2 directly from Vegas (in which case you probably wouldn't run up against the 4GB limit since your MPEG-2 file would likely be smaller than 4GB.