Fit to Disc

[kashyyyk]

Using Mydvd, when I add a couple 680MB or so size video files, I sometimes go over the disc size.

I'm using the fit to disc quality with a blank 4.7G DVD. My impression on fit to disc was that it would make the video files fit, by adjusting quality, but it doesn't. Is there a way I can do this manually to make them fit. I tried without menus, but still need about 25 more MB.

 

Thanks

[ggrussell]

What type of files are you adding? If you are are using highly compressed formats like MPEG4 or DivX, those files MUST BE uncompressed and then recompressed using MPEG 2 DVD compliant format. These files WILL BE LARGER. What's more important in this case is TIME. For best quality, only put ONE HOUR on a single 4.7 blank DVD and about 1 hr 58min on a dual layer, 8.5 disc. Once you go over that, the video must be compressed more and you start losing quality.

 

By the way using those formats isn't a good idea because once the video is compressed using MPEG 4 or DivX, you can't get that quality back. In fact, you keep losing quality because of the conversion to MPEG 2.

[bimicher]

Using Mydvd, when I add a couple 680MB or so size video files, I sometimes go over the disc size.

I'm using the fit to disc quality with a blank 4.7G DVD. My impression on fit to disc was that it would make the video files fit, by adjusting quality, but it doesn't. Is there a way I can do this manually to make them fit. I tried without menus, but still need about 25 more MB.

 

Thanks

 

File size means nothing when creating video DVDs, its the total time length that is important. A standard DVD will hold 60 minutes of video at best or high quality. I have never used the fit to disc option when creating a DVD that is bigger then 60 minutes. In EMC 7.5, I have always burned to an iso file (ignoring any warnings) and then used Disc Copier to transcode the iso file to fit on the DVD. This seemed to give better results then the Fit to Disc option. In EMC 10 I still create the iso file and then use Copy & Convert to burn the DVD. I have as yet not used the EMC 10 Fit to Disc option.

 

I am at the moment setting up a project containing two 90 minute movies that I want to burn to a 4.7GB DVD. When I use the Fit to Disc option with either a 4.7GB or a 8.5GB DVD, the program indicates that it can do it with 80-100MB to spare. So that indicates that Fit to Disc is working correctly. I have never tried to put 3 hours of video on a DVD so I am curious how good or bad the quality will be.

[kashyyyk]

What type of files are you adding? If you are are using highly compressed formats like MPEG4 or DivX, those files MUST BE uncompressed and then recompressed using MPEG 2 DVD compliant format. These files WILL BE LARGER. What's more important in this case is TIME. For best quality, only put ONE HOUR on a single 4.7 blank DVD and about 1 hr 58min on a dual layer, 8.5 disc. Once you go over that, the video must be compressed more and you start losing quality.

 

By the way using those formats isn't a good idea because once the video is compressed using MPEG 4 or DivX, you can't get that quality back. In fact, you keep losing quality because of the conversion to MPEG 2.

 

These files I'm using DivX and quality is not a concern. But I will create them using MPEG 2 to begin with and see how they fit. I'm just archiving stuff I made, but no longer use or need, but do want to keep some record of. I'm just being cheap and trying to use as few discs as possible. Plus it gives me practice with this new software.

 

Thanks

[ggrussell]

If you want to keep the files in DivX, just burn the files to a data DVD using Creator Classic. Those will playback on any DVD player that supports DivX, but not any other DVD player. Playback on any DVD player the files must be MPEG 2 and burned as a video DVD.