Hi there. I just finished a project, editing 2 nights of danceshows, and it has become a registration of nearly 3 hours of dance / music. First I made 1 evening, and edited a nice DVD with Ulead Moviefactory. No problems whatsoever. But now I merged the two projects (evenings) into 1 project, and rendered the 3 hours into one AVI file of 43Gb (....). Now I have 86Gb's free to render and such, but when I use Moviefactory it says at the end (!!) : "cannot create file" ! There is still more than enough space to write, so I guess this is due to another problem. Is there a maximum filesize, because Moviefactory indicates that it will be a 7,7Gb DVD (I wanted to uses DVDshrink after making the movie....with a nice menu....), and I thougth it would compress the 43Gb AVI to 7,7Gb DVD VOB/IFO files and such. Maybe there is a simple way to compress the AVI before using Moviefactory ? Because I get no problems with one evening (20Gb)... Help ? The dansstudio would really like to see the final DVD :s
Sorry mate you must be getting the size wrong - it can't possibly be a 43Gb AVI file at only 3 hours - maybe you mean 4.3Gb's? Check again.
I'm not wrong....sorry.....it IS a 43Gb AVI (rendered by Adobe Premiere)....... Spec's of the file : 720x576 (16:9) duration : 3:01:43 at 1536 kbps 16bits sound/PCM 25 fps
There is still a problem. DVD video files consume much more space than AVI - infact nearly four times as much and yet the average three hour movie on DVD will only be about 8- 9Gb.
hi Um something not right here? ok how big was the first night AVI as you say that was fine? and how big was the econd night AVI ? Thx... EDIT: keep first night dvd vobs and then keep second dvd vobs then merge that way! listng secon lot of vobs as at strat of end of first amount! vob_01 \ vob_02 |<--- first dvd vob_03 / vob_4 \ vob_05 |<--- second dvd vob_6 / you may need to change IFO cant remember for sure but someone here will see you ok on that! thx_X_X_X_X_X_[small]XP 1700 TBred [o/c 2004mhz = 12X167/33 = FSB-334mhz] A7V8X SATA150/RAID 2x80 gig [Bios 1012] HERCULES 3D PROPHET [9700 Pro] XMS Corsair Platinum pc3500 2x512 1024 meg ENERMAX PSU 550watts [/small]
no, he is right. When I download an hour from my minidv camcorder, the uncompressed avi file is about 13(thirteen) gb. Can you reauthor the dvd files to the harddrive instead of the dvd-r so that you can try to shrink it. If you have to you could try to write to two dvd-s, and then shrink and then reauthor. I am not sure if it can be done like that but let me know.
I didn't realise you had downloaded from your DV camera. Well the maximum size of a DVD must be no more than 4.38 Gb. In order to use DVD Shrink the files must be DVD video compliant i.e VOBs, IFO's etc so you would have to find a way of rendering to your hard disc the whole 3 hours first to that format. To join the movies together you can use get this tool;http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_tools/AVI_MPEG_RM_Joiner.cfmHowever I don't know of any cheap encoders that will render that size AVI file to DVD video compliant. This one is very expensive: http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_encoders/cinema_craft_encoder.cfm
I am now processing it with tmgenc, would that do the trick (it takes a loooooooong time to finish....) ? I am thinking of making 2 dvd's, and then I could easily join them ? Is that what you're saying ? I never done that before, so is there a tool with a wizard, or a tutorial of this ? Regards, Marco
Not sure that Temgenc will do it but if I were you I'd forget trying to make one disc and just create two seperate - you can add a caption at the end of the first like 'end of part one' or something.
Well, that is someting I can fall back to. For now I'm trying to create 2 directories woth VOB/IFO files (almost done), and with AVI_MPEG_RM_Joiner it would be possible to join them together ? Well, I'll try some things to get it to work on 1 DVD, and if everything fails, I'll burn 2 DVD's. If there is somebody who has an idea how to get it on 1 DVD, please reply
Why not convert it all to divx suitable for CDs use and then reconvert it to Mpeg 2 and if still too big use dvd shrink again. Just an idea.
