How not to loose quality / Splitting AVI

[cbchapman]

I have a large file 2.5 GB AVI sports event that I want to burn to a 4 GB DVD, but when I go to Create it in my DVD, and try to do so on high quality, the file is to large. So I used video wave to edit out some of the events, and thought that I would go ahead and break down the whole event into the individual events and incorporate them into the disk as separate movies. When I split the Video in Video Wave I have to output it as something, everything output it as either looses too much quality or creates a file that it is much larger than it should be. Is there any way to simply split the video and save it, so that I don;t have to convert it and loose quality. Can I just split the AVI and save it as the same AVI?

 

Thanks

Brian

[Beerman]

Time is more important than size with video work what usually works well for me is to add the file to MyDVD, uncheck Fit to Disk and burn at best quality to an image file. Then, take the resulting ISO file and burn to disc in Video Copy and Convert and it will fit to disc at best quality. In v9, I've successfully burned ISO files as large as 7.2GB to DVD with very acceptable quality. I'll admit I've not tried files quite that large in v10 but as far as I know, it should work the same.

[grandpabruce]

I have a large file 2.5 GB AVI sports event that I want to burn to a 4 GB DVD, but when I go to Create it in my DVD, and try to do so on high quality, the file is to large. So I used video wave to edit out some of the events, and thought that I would go ahead and break down the whole event into the individual events and incorporate them into the disk as separate movies. When I split the Video in Video Wave I have to output it as something, everything output it as either looses too much quality or creates a file that it is much larger than it should be. Is there any way to simply split the video and save it, so that I don;t have to convert it and loose quality. Can I just split the AVI and save it as the same AVI?

 

Thanks

Brian

 

No matter what you do, it has to be made into a DVD compliant file, so you are going to lose some quality.

 

Also, the size of the original file means nothing. It is the amount of time that matters. One hour of video, on a standard DVD, at best quality is a good rule of thumb.