Help on making meadia small enough to fit DVD

stacey3272 wrote on 10/22/2006, 8:14 PM

Ok I have read other topics on this subject but I am not having any luck. i have Studio 6. I have a sony mini DVD handy cam. I read it captures images in MPEG form. I have tried to make the format smaller by using DVD shrink and then trying to get it to burn to make a dvd. Optimize the thing. What format is a general one to render it to make it fit on a dvd. I always get also the menue is to big. How do you change that. I don't do any thing to menue I know this is rambeling. But its late I am tired . My daughter wants her volleyball footage to share with her team mates and I am trying so hard to use this new software. .

Lets see what else can I say I have tried. The footahge time on the time line is like a hour and half maybe a litte more or less. No fancy effets. I had music to it on one try. But even cut that out thinking that made the file to much. No go. SOOO if any one can make any of this out. UMMMMMM you would make a mom and daughter very happy. Oh what kills me is I can get it to burn on a dvd in DVD shrink. No way to add text or any hting in hter at lest I haven't look enough to see if you can. SOOO I can't understand why it won't fit on this Vages software. .

Thanks for making it this far.
Stacey

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stacey3272 wrote on 10/23/2006, 2:29 PM

Does anyone have a suggeestion on what format to render in to make my media fit a DVD. I am confused when dvd shrink can make it fit to a dvd . But my studio software says Its still to large. I read in my manual for my mini DV D I think my camera captures in MPEG . Is that a big file format?

My camera is a DCR-DVD105 If this helps any.

Thank You

Chienworks wrote on 10/23/2006, 3:32 PM

Well, to be a DVD, your videos must be MPEG2. There is no other choice. However, MPEG2 can have different bitrates, and these bitrates determine how much space is needed by any given length video. Unfortunately you can't adjust the bitrate from within Vegas Studio. The fixed bitrate it uses only allows about 80 minutes or so on a DVD.

What i would suggest is that you render to DV .avi. This will be a rather huge file, about 13GB per hour of video. Then in DVD Architect load this .avi file and use the fit-to-disc option. DVD A will render it to MPEG2 using a bitrate that will just let the video fit on the disc.