Unable to burn to disc

christopherdoherty@btinte wrote on 6/13/2010, 2:11 PM

Hi,

Can you help I'm trying to render work and a message keeps popping up.

The estimated file size is too large for the CDR.
Try changing the render settings or larger capacity CDR disc.

The video duration is approx 20 seconds.

I have been to option - prefrences and checked allow render up to 4 GB and allow large wave renders as wave 64

These are the settings:

MainConcept MPEG-1
VCD PAL
Audio: 224 Kbps, 44,100 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, MPEG
Video: 25 fps, 352x288 Progressive, YUV, 1,150 Kbps
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.092

Much appreciated

Chris

Comments

rs170a wrote on 6/13/2010, 3:44 PM

Tools - Burn Disc - Video CD?

Mike

christopherdoherty@btinte wrote on 6/13/2010, 5:01 PM

Hi Mike,
Thanx for replying, that's when the message pops up Video CD
Can you think of what other settings need to be checked or unchecked?

Chris

rs170a wrote on 6/13/2010, 5:17 PM

Chris, I have not made a Video CD in a very long time so I can't remember any of the settings that I used to use.
Out of curiosity, is there a reason why you're doing this and not making a DVD?

Mike

Chienworks wrote on 6/13/2010, 8:11 PM

I had something similar once when trying to burn to a CD-RW. I wasn't able to burn until after i formatted the disc elsewhere first. After that Vegas decided there was enough room and happily burned.

Any chance you're using an unformatted rewritable?

christopherdoherty@btinte wrote on 6/14/2010, 12:04 AM

Mike what is the difference from DVD to putting rendered footage onto video CD

christopherdoherty@btinte wrote on 6/14/2010, 12:07 AM

Hi I haven't tried to fornmat a disc as it never asked- As these discs I have been trying are new I will have a go and try and format one.

Much appreciated.

Chris

Chienworks wrote on 6/14/2010, 3:34 AM

Well, only format them if they're rewritable CD-RW. If they're CD-R then there's no such thing as formatting.

Differences between VCD and DVD:

VCD is 480x480, DVD is 720x480
VCD is MPEG1, DVD is MPEG2
VCD is progressive, DVD is usually interlaced
VCD maxes out around 1.5Mbps, DVD can be up to 9.8Mbps
VCD holds maybe an hour of cruddy video, DVD holds 90 to 120 minutes of high-quality video.
VCD has limited player support, DVD plays in almost anything.
VCD costs about 20 cents, DVD costs about 30 cents.

If you're really determined to use a CD instead of a DVD, i've had much better success simply rendering an MPEG (preferably MPEG2) file at about 3.5Mbps and burning it to a data CD. Almost any player sold in the last 10 years or so will find video files on data CDs and offer to play them. You won't get any menu, but then you probably weren't planning on much of a menu for a 20 second video anyway.

John_Cline wrote on 6/14/2010, 8:44 AM

One minor correction about the VCD differences, NTSC VCDs are 352x240 not 480x480. (PAL VCDs are 352x288.) 480x480 is the image dimension of an SVCD. Video CDs must be authored using the "Mode 2/XA" format.

VCDs are encoded using MPEG-1 progressive at 1,150 Kb/s and the audio is encoded as 224 Kb/s MPEG-1 Layer II at 44.1k. (DVDs use 48k audio.)