I need help burning a 14GB film done in vegas studio to a DVD

[Stephen Mann]

As Douglas said, you have the problem of too many cooks in the kitchen.

You have a simple problem with a simple solution. No need to confound it with more advanced technologies such as double-sided or blu-ray disks.

Since you don’t know what file formats you are seeing on your PC, you probably have the fie suffixes turned off (the Windows default). On Windows XT (I can’t help you if you’ve downgraded to Vista) Go to Control Panel, Folder Options, View, and uncheck the “Hide Extensions for Known File Types”. Then, when you look at the files in your folder, you will see that the 14Gb file is probably an .avi file.

Your solution should be simple, but I use Vegas Pro so I don’t know the limitations of the Studio versions. In Pro, I would use Vegas to encode the AVI file into an MPEG file, and adjust the bit rate to get to a file size that would fit on a 4.7 Gb DVD. (The audio is compressed separately into an AC3 file, but this is on Pro).

A 14 Gb AVI file is about right for a 1-hour video and should encode to MPEG for DVD easily.

In Studio, I think your best and easiest solution is to drag the AVI file into the DVDA workspace and let DVDA do all the work. (As I said, I don’t use Studio, but it can’t hurt to try it).

Hope this helps.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Monica Villarreal]

Many thanks Steve. I made the change in control panel and tomorrow will try draging the AVI file into the DVDA workspace and see if it works. Hope it does!

Monica

Monica