One hour movie = 15GB

[Blast1]

In the Burn DVD window what does the Status say? “Media not Present” or “Insufficient disc space for burning”? have you hit the rescan button?
If “Insufficient Space”, in the Encoding section of the Burn DVD window have you tried different settings? If the preset isn’t correct for the size you have the Burn button will be greyed out

[Howard Mills]

Blast1, the message say’s “Insufficient disc space for burning” And no, I have not tried diffrent settings. I did not want to mess around so I left everything at default. How would I know what to change the settings to and maintain excellent quality?

Dell XPS 400,
2.80 MHZ,
1 GB Ram,
1-160 GB HD,
Win XP Pro SP2,
Canon XL1,
JVC-BR- DV3000U,

[Tclark]

The only thing you can do is Mpeg-2 for DVD. The next option would be to use dual layer. That would give you more space. That is what the Hollywood DVD’s are. Dual Layer burners are dirt cheap.

[Harm Millaard]

If you consider that your 15 GB file needs to be compressed to around 4 GB to fit on a DVD, you can imagine you lose about 75% of the info in the file, thus reduction in quality. Adjust your compression settings to fit on a DVD. You could use a bitrate calculator to make it fit.

[Harm Millaard]

The media are not (yet).

[Tclark]

I guess the project is not that important. The media is not that bad.

[Howard Mills]

I’m not at all concerned about the cost of media. So from what I have been told there’s no way I can export a 15GB clip to a standard 4.7GB DVD and maintain quality?

Dell XPS 400,
2.80 MHZ,
1 GB Ram,
1-160 GB HD,
Win XP Pro SP2,
Canon XL1,
JVC-BR- DV3000U,

[Blast1]

[HowardM] “Blast1, the message say’s “Insufficient disc space for burning” And no, I have not tried diffrent settings”

You have to play off Project size vice Project settings, just clik on the settings button in the Encoding section of the Burn DVD window, then you will get a Export Settings window, in the top right hand area is a Preset: open the drop down and select a different one quality setting down for the listed one ex:
if it says “High Quality 7mb VBR 2 pass” select 6mb then clik OK and if the parameter is with in your size range the “Insufficient disc space for burning” will leave and ready will show up in the status and burn button should be ok.
CBR = Constant Bit Rate, can be used where space in not important and motion is minimal
VBR = Varible Bit Rate, varies the bit rate according to the ammount of motion present, more motion higher bitrate, no motion,minimum bit rate for the quality
1 pass = the encoder makes one pass at compression
2 pass = the encoder makes two passes at compression, can improve low bitrate quite a bit
If you don’t want to use presets you can use the custom setting at the top of the drop down.
You can also use the DVD Layout selection in the “Window” menu, it has DVD menu templates to enhance your DVD construction and has the same Burn DVD setting menu under Burn DVD as above
Its a good idea to review the Ppro manual and also avail yourself of the help menus.

[Howard Mills]

Blast 1, I followed your advice and was finally able to burn my project to a DVD. Thanks for the help.

[Kamrul Hasan]

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