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Need to Fit 17GB avi file onto 4.7GB DVD
I am trying to burn footage onto a DVD. The footage is a total of about 90 minutes, so when i tried to burn to DVD, it said the DVD didn’t have enough space… I exported the movie and the avi file came out to 17GB… how can I compress this enough to fit onto a 4.7GB DVD? I’d appreciate any help. Thanks.
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I have always used Export to DVD with the settings of 4mb VBR 2 pass NTSC Progressive using the media encoder dialog box that pops up when exporting to DVD. Thats if you want straight to DVD.
Otherwise…take the AVI file and use Sorenson to squeeze using Mpeg 2 compression and bring that into Encore. Or you can bring the AVI into encore and have Encore do the math and encoding.
Theres tons of ways to skin a cat as they say. Bottomline is that mpeg compression is for that very reason…to take digital files into encoded authorable DVD’s files.
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greg
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I believe that if you import the file into Encore DVD it will transcode it to the exact data rate to make it fit perfectly. Saves trouble.
Steven
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If you are looking to archive your avi without loosing quality, you can always use winrar to compress, and choose to split the archive into several files with a size limit of 4.3 GB. An uncompressed 17 GB avi should fit into 2 dvds after winrar compression. The downside is it takes a very long time to compress and decompress, even with a fast computer.
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