Oh dear God, please someone have pity and answer me my dilemma. I'm trying to use MyDVD to put burn two .avi files onto a blank 4.7GB DVD. The two .avi file are 631MB and 573MB respectively, and yet I can't seem to fit them onto the disc. Does burning the .avi files in DVD format *really* expand them *that* much? I mean, after putting in just the first file, it swallowed up 90% of the disc space?!? I went into File->Project Settings and changed the Default Encoding Settings to Low and the audio track from Dolby Digital AC3 to MPEG, and it still says I'm 47.7MB *over* on disc space. C'mon... can this reallly be true? 1204MB of .avi = more than 4.7(FOUR...POINT....SEVEN!!!)GB of DVD in crummy low quality? Ack.
I have prostrated myself before thine keen tech intellect, beseeching you to magnanimously remedy my insipience, for surely this is a quandry of mine own making. It *must* be a result of my own technical ineptitude, for surely it cannot be that 1.2 is greater than 4.7!!!
Seriously though, I've been stranded on this for five or six days now, and if I squander any more time I'll have to gouge out my eyes. Please tell me this is do-able. I don't want to waste two blank dvd's on what should fit on one. There has to be something I'm not seeing, and whoever helps me out automatically goes on my Christmas card list....
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Oh dear God, please someone have pity and answer me my dilemma. I'm trying to use MyDVD to put burn two .avi files onto a blank 4.7GB DVD. The two .avi file are 631MB and 573MB respectively, and yet I can't seem to fit them onto the disc. Does burning the .avi files in DVD format *really* expand them *that* much? I mean, after putting in just the first file, it swallowed up 90% of the disc space?!? I went into File->Project Settings and changed the Default Encoding Settings to Low and the audio track from Dolby Digital AC3 to MPEG, and it still says I'm 47.7MB *over* on disc space. C'mon... can this reallly be true? 1204MB of .avi = more than 4.7(FOUR...POINT....SEVEN!!!)GB of DVD in crummy low quality? Ack.
I have prostrated myself before thine keen tech intellect, beseeching you to magnanimously remedy my insipience, for surely this is a quandry of mine own making. It *must* be a result of my own technical ineptitude, for surely it cannot be that 1.2 is greater than 4.7!!!
Seriously though, I've been stranded on this for five or six days now, and if I squander any more time I'll have to gouge out my eyes. Please tell me this is do-able. I don't want to waste two blank dvd's on what should fit on one. There has to be something I'm not seeing, and whoever helps me out automatically goes on my Christmas card list....
Please help,
Geoff
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