size of project

[Devon Leesley]

Filmed in 720/24fps. Just under 2 hours. Going to class today. Hope to find the elusive answer.

[Jerry Hofmann]

A self contained movie that is of that codec and frame rate SHOULD be that large if it’s about 2 hours long.

I think you don’t understand that when you make a DVD from this file, it is compressed to MPEG-2 from the DVCPROHD and becomes small enough to fit on a DVD… You can use DVD SP or Compressor to make the files necessary for playback on a DVD from the file you’ve exported that’s nearly 100gb… THe compression settings used will dictate how small or large the resulting file is. You need to make it small enough to fit on a single or dual sided DVD. There are presets in Compressor for this very thing in fact, just apply them to the file you’ve exported and import the resulting MPEG and audio files into DVD SP for the burn.

Jerry

Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann

DVD:https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup

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[Devon Leesley]

I appreciate your time and expertise Jerry. I’ll take your notes with me to class today and hopefully my teacher can walk me through the steps. I said it before, this is all new to me. I can write the stories, run the camera, direct the action, and do all the music and even edit film, but some of this high tech stuff is above my pay grade.LOL! thanks.

[Devon Leesley]

So confusing that when I send to idvd, i can burn dvd, no problem. When I send it to pro studio, 95gigs.This jungle has some twists and turns for sure.

[Jerry Hofmann]

That’s because iDVD compresses the video when you burn a DVD with it. Playable DVD’s all have to have their video compressed to MPEG-2 in order to play in a DVD player.

Jerry

Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann

DVD:https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup

8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX Cinema Displays

[Devon Leesley]

i think i’ve got it figured. My initial problem way back was that 3 quarters of the way into movie on the burned dvd, it would go out of sinc, video/audio. I was using a dual layer dvd. I now have movie below 2 hours. It seems the chapters were taking up 10 minutes worth making the total 130 minutes. I am now burning to a single layer dvd. I hope this solves the ‘out of sinc’ problem. I’m just guessing but is it possible that when the dual layer flips to the second layer, it would throw audio/video out? I don’t know. I hope I’m on to something. I’ll know by 6:30 this morning, central time.

[Devon Leesley]

Well, my burned dvd is still out of audio/video sinc in the same spot. Could there be something wrong with idvd? I’m still trying to figure SP out. Class again today. The nightmare continues.