Project exceeds DVD space.

[John Kelly]

Hi, i am new to all this, but i had a similer oroblem just the other day. I took a 45min clip of an old movie, made a menu with 4 chapters (scene selection) saved it. then opened that encore program done what i had in there and thought just a matter of saving/ burning it.

When i trird to create the DVD or even to a dvd folder it was going to be 5.37GB I thought jayus. I thought i may have to to a dual later disc. Anyways i burnt / saved it to a folder and when i looked in the folder there was the VIDEO_TS folder at 1.69GB and also all the the other files too. it seemed to back up. saved all my original files too. hmmm.

I deleted those extra files and burned the video_ts file as normal … turned out great. try that it may help you.

Regards

[Joe Miranda]

Hi!

I have exalte the same issue and I dont know what o do now. It is a 2hour wedding video. I encoged using encoger cc vía importing timeline. 7.5 CBR m2v and it created a 6.7 gb file. When building in Encore it says project is too big. How can I keep quality and reduce file size? I am making a dvd with animated menus

Thanks in advance.

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Joe,

Using a bitrate calculator, a 2-hour video should be encoded at 4.5 and VBR would provide a better result, for example 2.5 – 4.5 – 7 for low, avg, max.

Be careful with motion menus, they can use a lot of space if not careful. You might limit the animated buttons to 30 seconds if you must have them.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Joe Miranda]

Thank you Jeff. You are a life saver. 4.7 as target worked just fine and fit. It is a 2hour wedding. Now playing on dvd player and looks great. I used vbr 2pass