Made a home movie with VEGAS\Movie Studio Platinum 16.0\MovieStudioPlatinum160.exe of length 1 hour 46 minutes. Sent it to VEGAS\DVD Architect\dvdarch70.exe. Put a 4GB disk in computer, tried to make DVD, program says it is 110% of disk capacity. I thought it was suppose to be able to put 2 Hours of movie on a DVD. Other than making the movie shorter, why does it not work?
Thank you for any help you can give me.,
This tutorial is a bit old, but should give you clues
BTW, a standard DVD can hold about 70-80 minutes of video at full quality. Only a dual-layer DVD can hold two hours or more without applying a compressor to it or reducing bitrate or video quality.
I've made commercial DVDs long ago with 2 x 45 mins plus extras on a single sided 4.7GB DVD quite happily with very good picture quality - this was using Avid DVD(Sonic DVDit Pro HD) not DVD Architect though. It's obviously to do with your bit rate but you can get good PQ up to 2 hours. I've always used Sorenson Squeeze Pro (Now defunct) - consumer editing software is rarely suitable for disc media prep. I'd look for some better compression software and always use ac3 not PCM for audio. Have a look at this calculator, and you will see 90 mins can still carry a high quality encode (2 pass VBR) http://dvd-hq.info/bitrate_calculator.php?length=90&vformat=PAL&audiobr=1536&astreams=1&ratemode=Auto&motion=Heavy&scenedetect=Active&brlimit=9800&discsize=4482&otherassets=0#Calculator
You should know that the size of a DVD is calculated differently from that on the computer. DVD size is based on billion bytes while the computer reads the file size using a binary system. For example, a 4.7GB can actually hold 4.376GB data. Check the DVD sizes here. See if that's your problem.
Thank you @aida-a. If it was the problem it's a bit late as the thread is six months old and Charles has probably solved his problem by now! But yes the difference does sometimes cause confusion. The differences in measurement of course also apply to Blu-ray discs.