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File size of final render
I’ve never seen this before, but have one clip that is 11.78 for only an hour of DV25 (from Canon GL1 and XL1) footage. Here are the details.
Ceremony: 1.39gigs / 26min & 28sec.
Reception: 11.78gigs / 59min & 43 seconds.
Videos exported using the Quicktime Movie option from FCP. Shouldn’t the hour long be in the 2.78gigs neighborhood instead of the bloated 11.78gigs?All things are pretty much the same. Same number of tracks (video & audio), no graphical elements, just straight DV25 footage for a wedding.
Am I missing something from FCP but why isn’t there an option to change the audio format from uncompressed to compressed?
Taking the above files gives me a 6gig file once converted in DVD Studio Pro. I now have to buy dual layer DVD’s to make a burn. I’ve done so many 1 1/2 to 2 hour videos on a single DVD5.
Can you offer any guidance to what’s happening.
Frank
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9 Replies
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Sounds like your sequence settings got changed along the way somewhere.
Open that exported movie in quicktime, then hit command-i to bring up the movie info. What codec does it say next to “Format:”
Jeremy
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Yes, I agree with Jeremy.
For the record, DV25 is approximately 13Gb per hour. Get yourself the free VideoSpace widget from DigitalHeaven to easily calculate the file sizes for x-minutes of video of any type of video codec available to FCP.
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[Frank Philip] “I’ve never seen this before, but have one clip that is 11.78 for only an hour of DV25 (from Canon GL1 and XL1) footage. Here are the details.
Ceremony: 1.39gigs / 26min & 28sec.
Reception: 11.78gigs / 59min & 43 seconds. “11.78 GB for one hour of DV25 is the normal size.
As Jeremy suggest you my have changed the prameters on capturing.
The “Ceremony” file, 1,3 GB for 26 minutes can’t be DV25. Too small file. Should take around 5GBs.
Rafael -
Hey Rafael, for the record 11.78Gb is for an hour of DV25 without audio. With audio it’s approximately 12.7Gb, which I rounded to 13Gb per hour in my earlier post.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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You are right David.
When I make a rough calculation, I account some 220 MB per minute.
Cheers
Rafael -
I checked the format and they are both the same. I’m not able to burn a hour and half video on to a single layer dvd? I’ve done this before after tweaking the encoding portion in DVDSP. Even going to the lowest VBR (two pass) it still won’t fit onto a single layer dvd.
I changed DVDSP parameters then saved and exited. Opened DVDSP and same thing. Not enough space.
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What kind of audio are you trying to put in your DVD?
Think that 1.5 hour of PCM audio takes around 1GB in your disk.
You need to use AAC.
Rafael -
What’s the best way to convert to AAC? Will the conversion mess up any a/v sync?
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The “Dolby Digital Professional 2.0” preset that you get in Compressor are AAC.
Absolutely professional format. With some 320Kbps, the quality is astonishing while making the files five folds smaller than with a PCM format. Just import and drop it in the DVDSTP time line.
Rafael
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