Files too large to burn?

[antbarson]

Hello

 

I raised a ticket for this but the fix hasn't worked, so I figured I'd try out on here.

 

When I take a movie, say either an AVI, MOV or MPG4 for example at around 600mb, when I drag or select the movie in Sonic, (MyDVD Plus) it runs a progress bar and then say's the file is (usually) about 4.9gb.

 

At this size, even reducing the recording quality is no go for a whole series. I have a copy of 'My Name is Earl' and I downloaded another one to make a copy (to save hassle of ripping myself) and I can get no more than 2 episodes on one disc of what was orgiginally 2 DVD's holding 8+ episodes.

 

I've cleared my temp files, run disc clean up and defagged my drives (dunno why, Roxio told me to) but it's not worked.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Antony

[Beerman]

Hello

 

I raised a ticket for this but the fix hasn't worked, so I figured I'd try out on here.

 

When I take a movie, say either an AVI, MOV or MPG4 for example at around 600mb, when I drag or select the movie in Sonic, (MyDVD Plus) it runs a progress bar and then say's the file is (usually) about 4.9gb.

 

At this size, even reducing the recording quality is no go for a whole series. I have a copy of 'My Name is Earl' and I downloaded another one to make a copy (to save hassle of ripping myself) and I can get no more than 2 episodes on one disc of what was orgiginally 2 DVD's holding 8+ episodes.

 

I've cleared my temp files, run disc clean up and defagged my drives (dunno why, Roxio told me to) but it's not worked.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Antony

The reason the file size increases is because the file you have is highly compressed and needs to be made dvd compliant. I'm not familiar with MyDVD Plus but are you saying that the 'Fit to Disc' option won't work?

[stu9000]

Im suddenly having the same problem.

 

Ive been using the

Sonic DigitalMedia Plus v7

Build: 2.6.30a

 

without a problem, until today.

 

When i Add Files the file being imported becomes massive!

For instance a 10mb file become 100mb or larger.

 

Why has this suddenly started happening.

 

Restarting does not help.

 

Its just occurred to me that the files I was adding were high quality avi files.

whereas Im this time im using wmv files.

 

Im reexporting the wmv file from Movie Maker to as an avi (use the high quality PAL setting).

Ill let you know if it works.

[stu9000]

Ive just been looking at my old MyDVD projects.

They are NOT that long in terms of duration.

Perhaps 10 mins each, 3 different files added.

 

This is using up at least 50% of a 4gig DVD disk.

 

Reading around this forum it would seem that the DURATION of the file you want to add is the main issue.

 

This is a problem for me because I want to burn to disk school performances that last 2 hours.

 

The PC I have at school has Roxio software on it (Roxio Easy Media Creator I think), not Sonic MY DVD.

 

 

But the point is i have been successfully creating DVDs with school performances of quite a long duration on until I started using MYDVD.

 

Now, I could go back and use Creator, but MYDVD has some nice options such as adding a background video loop, whereas Creator forces me to use very limiting templates (even buying an upgrade doesnt seem that good, just more templates).

 

I dont get WHY Creator can add longer durations.

I have started exporting higher quality PAL avi files from MM2 as my source files for new dvds. Perhaps it was the lower quality .wmv files i was using that let me add longer duration content to my DVDs.

 

But it all gets rendered to MPEG format anyway to be DVD player compatable. Seems very weird.

 

Is there a Guru out there that can explain, and advise on adding good quality movs of a 2 hr duration to a 4 gig DVD-R??????? After all, when i rent a dvd it has more than a half hour of footage and its high quality.

Should I use PapaJohns TNG Mpeg converter? Heeellllpppp, im going backwards here.

[stu9000]

I know, talking to myself again.

 

Just visited papajohns website again to read about his Mpeg encoder.

That guy is a DUDE

http://www.papajohn.org/

 

Download the encoder here.

http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/e_download.html

 

I have not tested it yet but the european PAL option says I should be able to get 155 mins of footage onto a standard 4gig dvd.

 

""Im reexporting the wmv file from Movie Maker to as an avi (use the high quality PAL setting).

Ill let you know if it works."""

 

When i did this it didnt save it as an avi (need to save it as dv avi for that) and it didnt fix the large file size problem

[antbarson]

In other words, you're saying it's an OEM [Orignal Eqpt Mfgr] Version - which normally has a number of features disabled.

 

I think the program is old enough you should be able to get the full Version on eBay or equivalent for a reasonable price.

 

Lynn

 

Thanks, that's a plan.

 

What newer DVD burners to we suggest? Guys?

 

Ant

[antbarson]

The reason the file size increases is because the file you have is highly compressed and needs to be made dvd compliant. I'm not familiar with MyDVD Plus but are you saying that the 'Fit to Disc' option won't work?

 

The 'Fit to disc' is disabled in my version. It's free with the PC.

 

It's not just one file., it's ALL files!

 

Ant

[lynn98109]

In other words, you're saying it's an OEM [Orignal Eqpt Mfgr] Version - which normally has a number of features disabled.

 

I think the program is old enough you should be able to get the full Version on eBay or equivalent for a reasonable price.

 

Lynn