Newbie – Export Problems

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I have tried double-layer DVDs with 8.5gb and 240 min. of video space but the menu STILL says “Insufficient disk space for burning” ?????

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[Lord Weenis]

You need to clean out some space on your hard drive. I have the same problem sometimes. Just clean out some space on your hard drive and you should be good to go. Big projects have that issue sometimes.

[Richard Baim]

On the timeline you have a long AVI file that must be converted to MPEG2 before it can be burned to a DVD. Your hard drive must have enough space to temporarily store the MPEG2 file before burning can happen. If your DVD is a double layer and it will take up a total of 7G, you will need at least 7G free on the drive where the MPEG2 file will be written. If you have a large drive other than C with a lot of space available, you can specify that the MPEG2 file goes on that drive. It does not have to go on the C drive. Let me know if you need any more information.

Rich Baim

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Richard & Lord,

Thank you for the info. However I think I need more specific instructions. I have been able to burn small 1-2 min. videos with no problem. I have been burning them through a Nero program. (Nero however will not recognize the dual-layer disks I put in the machine??) So now I am back to trying to burn to DVD directly from the Premiere Pro 2.0 timeline.
As I stated earlier.. when I click File>Export the ‘Burn’ menu is not hilited. I gather from your most recent post this is due to a lack of space on my hard-drive. I do have a 500 GB external hard-drive available.
My questions now are…

1) How do I direct the material to the external drive.
2) What are the steps to burn the video from the external hard drive to a dvd disk?
3) When in Premiere Pro should I export the video to DVD or to Movie?

I would really like to burn my disks from Premiere Pro because I have authored the dvd with a title page and chapter settings..In Nero the options for this are limited.
The video typically saves as a windows media file. (I have not had any trouble with the smaller videos in this file type.) Do I need to convert it to a different file type?

By the way, a friend told me when I burn “movie” to go into the settings menu on the pop up screen and turn off ‘recompress’ under the video menu page. I was told the video will look better? Ever heard of that.

Uh oh.. I was in the process of burning my video to my external hard drive and got a pop-up saying not enough space available. Hmmm another hurdle. I will look into this and try again. Please help.

Thanks in advance,

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I have a 500GB external hard drive with 495 GB of free space.. however, when I try to send my 2.5 hour video (31.5 GB)to this device the premiere pro menu says “Space required is more than 4.7 GB.”
What am I missing here??

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[Richard Baim]

It would help if you tell me your exact procedure. If you select “Burn DVD”, there are three options: Disc, Folder (4.7G) single layer DVD, and Folder(8.5G) dual layer. If you only need one disc to show progress so far to a client, you can choose “Disc” but that results in a temp file that cannot be used again. The AVI is converted to MPEG2 and then burned directly to a disc. That temp file is not available later so if you burn this way again, you have to create the MPEG2 again-very time consuming. If you are totally done with authoring and you may need to make more DVDs later, choose one of the folder options. You will see a window that allows you to enter a folder name and just below that, you can select a folder location. Click “Browse” and create a folder on your large drive called “ProjectNameDVD” or something similar. This will allow you to use your 500 G drive to store the MPEG2. The default drive is C and that’s usually not a good choice. If you create a folder, you can reuse the file without converting to MPEG2 again, so it’s much faster to make additional DVDs. Since you’ve got a 500G drive, having that folder on the drive taking up space is not a big problem.
Rich

Elements 3 will automatically set your bit rate to fill up the DVD without going over the amount of room available. This is much easier than using Premiere Pro 2, where a little calculation is needed. Let me know if this makes sense.

[Richard Baim]

Here is the procedure for Pro 2. Sorry, my earlier email is the procedure for Elements 3.

File-Export-Export to DVD
There are 3 choices- Disc, Folder, ISO Image. I usually check “Folder”.
Give your disc a name such as “PeaceChurchWelcome”
Next is “Folder Location”. Click “Browse” and select the drive and folder where the MPEG2 file will be stored.
Under “Encoding” click “Settings” and choose a setting that will allow the MPEG2 to fit on the DVD. Go to http://www.video2stream.com and click on “Adobe Mpeg Encoder Bitrate Table” for a chart showing program length and bitrate needed. This is provided by Mike Velte.
You have a very long video so you will probably need to be split in two parts or else use a dual layer disc.
How are you getting a file that is 31 G? That sounds like AVI, not MPEG2. Your max MPEG2 file size for single layer is 4.38 and for dual layer, twice that.
Rich

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Rich, thanks for the valuable info. I had no problem burning to a ‘folder’ but I just couldn’t get the ‘burn’ icon to hilight when I had ‘disk’ clicked.
I finally did get it work somehow.. but I had to reduce the quality to fit it on one DVD and it did not look good.
In the end I did split my project into two parts and am now able to burn to dvd through NERO utilizing the two folders I created.

Thanks so much for your input,

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FYI – I now have to make 13 copies (thats 26 disks total) and it is taking about 30 minutes per disk. On top of that it takes an extra 30 minutes or so to burn a label to the disk using ‘Lightscribe’
Thats at least 26 hours of burning, flipping, burning, etc..

Good thing my work is a labor of love……..

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[Richard Baim]

If you use a DVD duplicator the process will be much faster. I have a tower with 5 burners and it takes 11-12 minutes to make 5 DVDs. The cost on these has dropped quite a bit. You can buy a case, Wytron controller, and burners, and then put it together yourself. I used a company called Copystars for the case, power supply, and controller, and then I put in a DVD player and 5 burners in.

Rich Baim