Huge rendered movie to big for DVD

jxow wrote on 11/21/2004, 5:11 PM

I rendered a 1 hour and 12 minute movie and it is over 15 gig! How do I get this down so I can burn it to a DVD?

Comments

Former user wrote on 11/21/2004, 6:16 PM

A DVD is an MPEG2 file. Either use the DVD Mpeg temlate to create the file, or use a DVD authoring program.

Dave T2

IanG wrote on 11/22/2004, 12:48 AM

IMHO it's best to render to MPEG2 before going on to the authoring stage. That way you'll only need to do it once - if you leave it to the authoring program you might do it several times as you make changes to the DVD.

Ian G.

solthoff wrote on 11/22/2004, 12:11 PM

I had the same problem. I went out and bought a DVD+R DL (Double Layer )DVD burner from Sony. It cost $250 and it allows you to burn a DVD with 8.5GB instead of 4.7. It will hold your file and it is worth the investment. The disks are a little pricey at $9.99 each but ultimately it is worth every penny.