Will DVDA furthur compress existing MPEG.2's ?

jboy wrote on 3/24/2003, 12:28 AM

I'm trying to burn a DVD of a 29GB.AVI, that I reduced to 6+GB using the MPEG.2 template in VV4.0. I bring the file into DVDA>go to the optimize screen and set the bitrate slider so that the 6GB+ file will fit onto the 4.7GB disk, it recompresses the audio and video so that it supposedly will occupy 97% of the 4.7GB disk-takes about 5 hours-but when I go to burn it DVDA reports that the file is too large. Am i wrong in assuming that DVDA will recompress a greater than 4.7GB MPEG.2 file, by reducing the bitrate, to a level where it does contain 4.7GB of data ?

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jetdv wrote on 3/24/2003, 9:48 AM

Instead of rendering to the 6Gig intermediary file, either pass DVDA the AVI file and let it do ALL the rendering or render the original MPEG file so that it is small enough to begin with. All you need to do to get a smaller size is reduce the bitrate.