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[NickM]

I have some old 8mm movies that were converted to VHS and recently captured as video on my PC.  The quality is not that great so I decided to burn all to 1 DVD using the "fit to disc" option.  I added all the files to a MyDVD project but when I went to burn the DVD, it dispalys a message that it is too large to burn and the burn button is greyed out.  I double checked project settings and it is "fit to disc".

The documentation is minimal for MyDVD so I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.  

Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks

[ggrussell]

NickM, on Aug 29 2006, 08:58 AM, said:

The quality is not that great so I decided to burn all to 1 DVD using the "fit to disc" option.

How much video (time wise) do you have? There is a limit to how much it will fit on one disc.  You should be able to fit two hours easily.

[NickM]

Gary,
I have over 2 hours.  I thought the fit to disc option would work the same as my DVR (i.e. reduce the quality to fit it on the disc).  But unless I reduce the number of files in the project to under th 4.6gb, it won't burn.  

Am I missing something with Roxio's fit to disc option in MyDVD?

I notice that you also have an m7248n - have you had the problem with MyDVD menu styles with the preview picture causing the machine to crash and restart?  I saw another thread that gave me a workaround (use a different style) and a fix to do something with dao, but I'm not sure if that applies.

Thanks again
Nick

[myguggi]

NickM, on Aug 29 2006, 09:41 AM, said:

Gary,
I have over 2 hours. I thought the fit to disc option would work the same as my DVR (i.e. reduce the quality to fit it on the disc). But unless I reduce the number of files in the project to under th 4.6gb, it won't burn.

Am I missing something with Roxio's fit to disc option in MyDVD?

I notice that you also have an m7248n - have you had the problem with MyDVD menu styles with the preview picture causing the machine to crash and restart? I saw another thread that gave me a workaround (use a different style) and a fix to do something with dao, but I'm not sure if that applies.

Thanks again
Nick

Burn you production to an image file and then use DiscCopier to burn the iso file to DVD. DiscCopier will transcode the file to fit on a DVD and it does a much better job the trying to use "Fit to Disc". Why are you trying to cram more then 2 hours on a DVD? You will lose quite a bit of quality since the video has to be highly compressed. At the price of DVDs I would recommend burning to sveral DVDs by keeping the video below at most 90 minutes.

[NickM]

myguggi, on Aug 29 2006, 11:27 AM, said:

Burn you production to an image file and then use DiscCopier to burn the iso file to DVD. DiscCopier will transcode the file to fit on a DVD and it does a much better job the trying to use "Fit to Disc". Why are you trying to cram more then 2 hours on a DVD? You will lose quite a bit of quality since the video has to be highly compressed. At the price of DVDs I would recommend burning to sveral DVDs by keeping the video below at most 90 minutes.

Thanks for the tip, I'll try it.  Normally I would not do it, but these files are video captured from VHS tapes that were created from old (1955-1969) 8MM film.  I thought I'd try it to see how much degradation occured.  Also would be handy process for video that just goes over the limit.  

I like the idea of using the image file for repeatability.

The manual with EMC8 really sucks when it comes to any detail.  Do you know of any book that gives better detail on how and what you can do?  Otherwise I'll continue to display my ignorance on the discussion group.

Thanks Again,
Nick

[ogdens]

NickM, on Aug 29 2006, 03:58 PM, said:

Thanks for the tip, I'll try it. Normally I would not do it, but these files are video captured from VHS tapes that were created from old (1955-1969) 8MM film. I thought I'd try it to see how much degradation occured. Also would be handy process for video that just goes over the limit.

I like the idea of using the image file for repeatability.

The manual with EMC8 really sucks when it comes to any detail. Do you know of any book that gives better detail on how and what you can do? Otherwise I'll continue to display my ignorance on the discussion group.

Thanks Again,
Nick

This may help you     http://www.amazon.co...0...ks&v=glance

[NickM]

myguggi, on Aug 29 2006, 11:27 AM, said:

Burn you production to an image file and then use DiscCopier to burn the iso file to DVD. DiscCopier will transcode the file to fit on a DVD and it does a much better job the trying to use "Fit to Disc". Why are you trying to cram more then 2 hours on a DVD? You will lose quite a bit of quality since the video has to be highly compressed. At the price of DVDs I would recommend burning to sveral DVDs by keeping the video below at most 90 minutes.

One last question on the "fit to disc" option.  What does it mean in MyDVD.  It didn't seem to matter whether it was set or not with respect to burning a DVD.
Thanks

[myguggi]

NickM, on Aug 29 2006, 03:58 PM, said:

Thanks for the tip, I'll try it. Normally I would not do it, but these files are video captured from VHS tapes that were created from old (1955-1969) 8MM film. I thought I'd try it to see how much degradation occured. Also would be handy process for video that just goes over the limit.

I like the idea of using the image file for repeatability.

The manual with EMC8 really sucks when it comes to any detail. Do you know of any book that gives better detail on how and what you can do? Otherwise I'll continue to display my ignorance on the discussion group.

Thanks Again,
Nick

I'll agree with you that the manual is not much help when it comes to details, even some of the basics are very poorly covered. I found the best information is from experimenting and asking questions on these forums or just reading the forum. I have not found any other book that is useful

[grandpabruce]

NickM, on Aug 29 2006, 03:27 PM, said:

One last question on the "fit to disc" option.  What does it mean in MyDVD.  It didn't seem to matter whether it was set or not with respect to burning a DVD.
Thanks

It means that it will compress your production to fit on a regular DVD.  It means nothing for a DL disc, since I don't believe MyDVD is capable of burning more than 2 hours of video.  It may be capable of burning more, directly to a disc, but if you burn to an .ISO file, anything over 2 hours will be cut off.

[ggrussell]

NickM, on Aug 29 2006, 09:41 AM, said:

Am I missing something with Roxio's fit to disc option in MyDVD?

I'm sure MyDVD is working as designed. I have no clue exactly how 'fit to disc' works, but you should be able to manually fit more.

Go into MyDVD project settings. If you aren't too worried about quality,  uncheck 'fit to disc' and then select another video resolution.  352x240 is the lowest and then slide the Bitrate all the way to the left (4MB). This is the lowest video quality and the MAX amount of time.

To squeeze a few more minutes out, you can also change the audio bitrate to something lower.

Edited by ggrussell, 30 August 2006 - 05:58 AM.

[StanC]

If quality does matter, you can split the video into sections using Video Wave, and then burn it to dvd.