no disk space in dvd arch?

mommakim wrote on 2/14/2007, 9:37 AM

I have home movies totalling one hour and 30 minutes i have captured in vms 6.0 and sent to dvd arch to make movie. It says "estimated size of project is larger than default space on media- my dvd says 120 minutes?

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HaroldC wrote on 2/14/2007, 5:16 PM

If you captured in vms then the file would have been saved as an avi. An avi runs at about 13 gigs an hour. I can only put about 1 hour and 15 minutes onto a dvd. What you do to solve the problem depends on what you have done to that point.

If you rendered into mpeg2 in vms the better way to fit the video onto a dvd would be to prepare (but not burn) the video in dvda. dvda will save the home movies into whichever folder you designate. At that point use dvdshrink to resize the video to fit to a single layer dvd. Then once it is shrunk burn that to a dvd using whichever burning utility you have.

If you haven't rendered into an mpeg2 in vms, you can use dvda to do that. Import the avi file into dvda. When you get to the "Review Process List" hit "Optimize". When the next window comes up make sure up at the top on the left side the video is selected. Then hit the "Fit to Disc" button. Then proceed as usual.

Though they is some difference of opinion, my preference is to render in vms and use dvdshrink if I have to.

mommakim wrote on 2/22/2007, 11:36 PM

Thanks for your response. I guess my confusion was total time of the project vs. gb. I can see the read out of time for the project in vms, but no indication of gb. I think you are right, I can only get just over an hour on the dvd.

HaroldC wrote on 2/23/2007, 3:04 AM

You can fit 2 hours onto a single layer dvd by using an application like dvdshrink. But the quality depending on the type of video will suffer. The more action in the video the less quality. If the video is pretty much someone standing or sitting in one place and talking the quality may be acceptable. I prefer not to go over a hour and a half with a single layer dvd. But then I have the option of putting it onto a dual layer disc. Of course if the quality of the video is paramount you could just split the video and put it on two dvds.