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Making movie into DVD
Hello,
I hope this is the right place to ask my questions. I am a great-grandmother who basically “knows from nothing” about this stuff, but I’ve been studying all the help I can find. I made an almost 2-hour movie to be Christmas gifts for my family using Vegas 11. The movie combines various video of their great-grandfather and me when young, slides of their ancestors and my late hubby and my lifetime together and their childhoods, music, and text, etc. I want to give my family something really special for Christmas, as I know they don’t have some of these images. I rendered it to my hard drive and the third time I think I did it right, because it plays perfectly!
I thought it would be easy to burn the finished product onto a DVD – so far, it’s been impossible! I thought I needed to render it again to a DVD instead of my hard drive, so I rendered it (same version that played perfectly) to be burned as DVD. It took 9 hours, (same as it did to the hard drive) but then seemed fine.
My laptop keeps telling me I have files waiting to be burned. I inserted brand new Verbatim DVD-R discs that say they hold 120 minutes, but repeatedly get a message that says either insert a new disc or that there’s no disc in the drive (when there is). I don’t know what to do now to get this wonderful memorial to my husband and history for my grandchildren onto DVDs that they can either play on their TVs or in their computers. Please help!
Do you think the problem is the Windows Media Player burner that’s installed on my laptop? Do I need to buy a new external DVD burner? If so, what kind? This is the only thing I want to use it for. I don’t make or play many DVDs otherwise. The one in my computer has worked for music in the past, but doesn’t seem about to burn my movie now.
I don’t know what I should do next, whether it’s the laptop’s burner or if there is something I’m doing wrong in the way I’ve done this…. (which has been through spit and prayer and more than a little swearing here and there!) But it all plays so perfectly now in the “video clip” version on my hard drive – the whole 1 hour and 54 minutes of it! Why won’t it copy onto DVDs for me? Can you help?Thank you,
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Hi Patricia
In light of no other response to this dilemma of yours let me suggest something.
Your two hour video is never going to fit onto a DVD at any ‘watchable’ quality; I am afraid the file is just too big. A DVD fits 4.7 ish GB of information and your video sounds way too big for this in my experience.
Now, most home videos go on for way too long so firstly I would suggest you take a good hard look at your video (which I am sure you are quite rightly very proud of) and, if you have the time and the inclination, see if you can take to it with the erasure and cut it right back to critical footage.
If you are keen to keep the video the way it is then think about using a dual-layer DVD (if your burner supports that medium) or even a USB, which many media players and even modern tvs can handle these days. If using a USB you will need to render into a different format though.Ask your family if possible, what their tv systems are capable of playing.
I am sure there are other solutions. Maybe others can help you out here.
Good luck though and great that you are enjoying this ‘hobby’ of yours. Oh, and I always find a small whiskey helps to soften the swearing!
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Thank you, Phil. I love the idea of putting it all onto a flash drive. Hadn’t thought of that at all, but it seems a very good solution. My movie is currently 24.3 GB. I was just going by time, but I understand now from you that the size is far too large for DVDs. I’ve ordered a 32 GB flash drive to try. I think that should work well. Thank you for taking the time to help me with what must be a very obvious solution to those of you familiar with these programs.
Pat
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The problem sounds like you are trying to copy the render files to a DVD and it doesn’t work that way. This will make a data DVD but you want a Video DVD and Video DVD’s need to be authored with special software into a format that a set-top DVD player can play back.
If you don’t have DVD Authoring software like Sony DVD Architect, then in Vegas Pro 11.0 go to:
Tools | Burn Disc | DVD…
and follow the prompts. Vegas Pro 11.0 will convert your project into a video that can fit on a DVD and then burn a DVD suitable for giving to your family so that they can play it on their TV.
~jr
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