Setting end point to burn half the video, why 6.3 gb?

Andry wrote on 1/10/2005, 6:00 AM

The original video rendered from Vegas 5.0 is 6.4gb, but in DVD architect I set my end point to half the video so that I can fit it on a dvd. Why does the file size only go down to 6.3 gb? I would not let me burn it because it did not fit on a DVD.

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Chienworks wrote on 1/10/2005, 6:48 AM

When you set the end point in DVD Architect all it does is tell the DVD player to stop playing at that point. It won't delete that part of the file, so the entire file will still go on the disc (if it can fit). In order to do what you want you'll have to render a new MPEG file including only the part you want.

ScottW wrote on 1/10/2005, 7:01 AM

According to the documentation (I know, who in their right mind reads the documentation): "You can set in and out points if you don't want to burn your entire video file to DVD"

So, assuming the documentaiton is correct (which might be a bad assumption), what happens if you just try to prepare the project, rather than prepare and burn? DVDA 2.0 willl let you prepare the project even if you exceed the DVD size limit. Once prepared, if you add up the sizes of the files in the VIDEO_TS directory, do they match what DVDA's estimate was?

Also make sure you haven't accidentally included the same movie in the project more than once, and to be safe, if you created a scene selection menu, I'd delete that menu first, then set the out point and recreate the scene selection menu.

If the project is still 6.3Gb, then I would formally report this as a bug to Sony - and unfortunately the only thing you can do in the meantime is to re-render just that portion, or render the entire clip at a lower bitrate so that it will fit.

--Scott

Andry wrote on 1/10/2005, 7:37 AM

Okay, that is exactly where I got it from, the documentation. When I realized that I rendered my entire video in Vegas 5 and I only needed half of it, I read the section about putting the end point and that it will only burn that half. Well, I did try only preparing first and it took over 2 hours to prepare 1.5 hours of video(or really the entire video). Then when i tried to burn it, it still said it was too large for the disc. Very annoying. I did eventually re-render only the half I needed.

Thanks. I guess I will need to report it as a glitch. I just thought I payed a lot of $$ because I'd get a software with no glitches, but I'm sure all software has glitches.

Andry

ScottW wrote on 1/10/2005, 8:00 AM

It should not have taken that long to prepare the project - if it did, then the most likely explination is that you did not use one of the DVDA templates when you were rending MPEG-2 from Vegas..

bStro wrote on 1/10/2005, 8:29 AM

Try the info in this thread. According to SonyEPM, you should be able to get DVDA to actually trim the file by making sure that it's set to recompress the video. The "In / Out point trim" method works for AVIs because they already have to be compressed / rendered anyhow.

Rob