Rendered File too large for DVD

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Rendered File too large for DVD

Posted by Martin Stanesby on October 13, 2013 at 7:50 pm

Hi,
I’ve been trying to render a movie in Sony Vegas Pro 11, approx 1 hour 45 mins in length to fit on a DVD.
It’s an old movie in 4:3 format.
I went straight for MainConcept Mpeg2 (DVD Architect PAL video stream & Program stream PAL) to import to Sony Architect 6. I rendered the video separately to the audio. the video alone is 4.73GB and too large for the DVD, when rendered the audio to go with it it took it to 5.24GB.
If I rendered both together it is the same.

I can’t seem to find a way to render a standard length movie to fit a DVD??? How can I do this?

Thanks for any help.

Martin

Rolf Comez replied 12 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
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John Rofrano
October 13, 2013 at 8:19 pm

[Martin Stanesby] “I can’t seem to find a way to render a standard length movie to fit a DVD???”

Well… “standard length” is 1 hr 20~30 min at the default settings. You’ll need to decrease the bit-rate in your render template to get more than that. Use a bitrate calculator (there are lots of them on the web and VASST Ultimate S Lite and Pro both have one built in) to determine which bit rate to use. For 1 hr 45 min video use an average bit rate of about 5,500,000.

~jr

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Enrique Orozco
October 13, 2013 at 11:10 pm

DVD shrink is all you need… (many “pros” are going to disagree…)

good luck

Enrique Orozco R.
iDEA DigitalVideoStudio
John Rofrano
October 13, 2013 at 11:31 pm

[Enrique Orozco] “(many “pros” are going to disagree…)”

…and the reason they will disagree is because it makes no sense to render something at too high a bit rate in one program and then use another program to render it again at a lower bit rate, thus loosing quality, when you could have render it to the correct lower bit rate in the first place. 😉

~jr

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Enrique Orozco
October 14, 2013 at 12:06 am

I totally agree.. I just posted a quick solution if you already have made the render (DVD) slightly larger that one disc can fit… in a few seconds you can adjust the size to fit the disc… with almost no visible difference (for file size near 5 GB)..

thanks

Enrique Orozco R.
iDEA DigitalVideoStudio
Martin Stanesby
October 15, 2013 at 9:26 am

Thanks again John, that was spot on.

Martin
John Rofrano
October 15, 2013 at 10:28 am

You’re welcome Martin. I’m glad that worked for you.

~jr

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Rolf Comez
December 6, 2013 at 7:23 am

I am new to the forum ,but having troubles burning DVD with a file that is 90 min long.
The file is 6.5 GB big when I wanted to burn to DVD, I find the setting to change the bit rate but this will make a new file on my Hard drive .I like to know how I can change this that it makes a smaller file and burn to a DVD The program is Sony vegas 10.0C hope some one can help Regards

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