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Splunge
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject:
Movie too long - won't fit on DVD |
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Hi gang,
I have a movie in WMM all edited and ready to burn to DVD. In WMM, it
says the movie is 1 hour and 53 minutes long.
I then use Roxio 7 and load the movie file into it. Then I try to burn
it to DVD. It attempts the DVD burning process and says "complete"
when it's done, but then I get an error saying the movie is too long.
There's nothing on the DVD either (maybe there is but I can't read it).
I've been back and forth--first I go back to WMM and edit the movie
even more to reduce the length. But I should be able to put a 1-hour
53 min movie onto a DVD, right?? I'm using DVD-R format.
I've also tried saving the movie from WMM in lower-quality NTSC
formats. That does reduce the size of the file, but the result in
Roxio is the same, it won't burn the DVD and says it's too long.
I don't understand where to go from here. I could edit the movie yet
again and split it into two movies and try to burn each separately to
DVD, but that's a huge inconvenience. Besides, commercial DVDs have
long movies on them, why can't I do the same? And I don't have any
"special features", fancy titles or anything. I have just one menu
item to play the movie, that's it.
Help!
Thanks, in advance! |
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PapaJohn (MVP)
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject:
Re: Movie too long - won't fit on DVD |
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it's the size of the MPEG-2 files that the DVD software makes from the input
movie file, not the file size of the saved movie from MM2.... and how much
fits on a disc depends on the DVD software.
I don't use Roxio 7, so don't know its limits, but that's where to check.
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"Splunge" <splunge_000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hi gang,
I have a movie in WMM all edited and ready to burn to DVD. In WMM, it
says the movie is 1 hour and 53 minutes long.
I then use Roxio 7 and load the movie file into it. Then I try to burn
it to DVD. It attempts the DVD burning process and says "complete"
when it's done, but then I get an error saying the movie is too long.
There's nothing on the DVD either (maybe there is but I can't read it).
I've been back and forth--first I go back to WMM and edit the movie
even more to reduce the length. But I should be able to put a 1-hour
53 min movie onto a DVD, right?? I'm using DVD-R format.
I've also tried saving the movie from WMM in lower-quality NTSC
formats. That does reduce the size of the file, but the result in
Roxio is the same, it won't burn the DVD and says it's too long.
I don't understand where to go from here. I could edit the movie yet
again and split it into two movies and try to burn each separately to
DVD, but that's a huge inconvenience. Besides, commercial DVDs have
long movies on them, why can't I do the same? And I don't have any
"special features", fancy titles or anything. I have just one menu
item to play the movie, that's it.
Help!
Thanks, in advance!
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KDE
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject:
Re: Movie too long - won't fit on DVD |
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Your DVD authoring program will take whatever movie file you give it and
re-encode it to a DVD compliant Mpeg2 movie, so the format and quality of
the input file doesn't really make a difference as far as final movie size.
Some DVD authoring programs do not allow the user any options as to quality
and bitrate in this process. at the high end of quality a standard DVD+/-R
will only fit approx 60 minutes of video. If Roxio has anywhere to adjust
quality you can encode the dvd at a lower bitrate and fit more video on. I
know Nero allows for this and you can squeeze close to 3 hrs on a DVD (of
course quality suffers somewhat) There are also dual layer DVD's that will
hold twice the data of a regular DVD but compatibility with your burner and
many players may be a problem
"Splunge" <splunge_000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1131635054.522848.90180@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
| Hi gang,
|
| I have a movie in WMM all edited and ready to burn to DVD. In WMM, it
| says the movie is 1 hour and 53 minutes long.
|
| I then use Roxio 7 and load the movie file into it. Then I try to burn
| it to DVD. It attempts the DVD burning process and says "complete"
| when it's done, but then I get an error saying the movie is too long.
| There's nothing on the DVD either (maybe there is but I can't read it).
|
| I've been back and forth--first I go back to WMM and edit the movie
| even more to reduce the length. But I should be able to put a 1-hour
| 53 min movie onto a DVD, right?? I'm using DVD-R format.
|
| I've also tried saving the movie from WMM in lower-quality NTSC
| formats. That does reduce the size of the file, but the result in
| Roxio is the same, it won't burn the DVD and says it's too long.
|
| I don't understand where to go from here. I could edit the movie yet
| again and split it into two movies and try to burn each separately to
| DVD, but that's a huge inconvenience. Besides, commercial DVDs have
| long movies on them, why can't I do the same? And I don't have any
| "special features", fancy titles or anything. I have just one menu
| item to play the movie, that's it.
|
| Help!
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| Thanks, in advance!
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Splunge
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Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:27 am Post subject:
Re: Movie too long - won't fit on DVD |
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Thanks for the responses. I will check into the movie size again
(MPEG-2). And I will try downloading the update to Roxio 7 and try to
burn an ISO image and then try burning that.
But just for laughs, can anyone tell me what you "typically" see for a
file size (NTSC best quality) for a 2-hour movie in Windows Movie
Maker? The files I get are quite big, some as big as 24GB (best
quality). And I know going from WAV or whatever WMM is saving as to
MPEG-2 isn't going to shrink that much, so no way it fits on a 4.7 GB
DVD. I understand that. The movie has a lot of sound/music in
it--it's a sports game I filmed and I have music playing throughout,
and the music probably is contributing quite a bit to the file size. I
might try to cut out the soundtrack and see what that does, too.
Thanks again. |
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Svendus
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Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:27 am Post subject:
Re: Movie too long - won't fit on DVD |
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It is a well known bug in creator 7 burn an hard disk image in creator
classic first then it will function download the update70to71_2 size 119 Mb
http://www.roxio.com/en/support/emc/software_updatesv7.jhtml
you have to login first to get it :-)
"KDE" wrote:
| Quote: | Your DVD authoring program will take whatever movie file you give it and
re-encode it to a DVD compliant Mpeg2 movie, so the format and quality of
the input file doesn't really make a difference as far as final movie size.
Some DVD authoring programs do not allow the user any options as to quality
and bitrate in this process. at the high end of quality a standard DVD+/-R
will only fit approx 60 minutes of video. If Roxio has anywhere to adjust
quality you can encode the dvd at a lower bitrate and fit more video on. I
know Nero allows for this and you can squeeze close to 3 hrs on a DVD (of
course quality suffers somewhat) There are also dual layer DVD's that will
hold twice the data of a regular DVD but compatibility with your burner and
many players may be a problem
"Splunge" <splunge_000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1131635054.522848.90180@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
| Hi gang,
|
| I have a movie in WMM all edited and ready to burn to DVD. In WMM, it
| says the movie is 1 hour and 53 minutes long.
|
| I then use Roxio 7 and load the movie file into it. Then I try to burn
| it to DVD. It attempts the DVD burning process and says "complete"
| when it's done, but then I get an error saying the movie is too long.
| There's nothing on the DVD either (maybe there is but I can't read it).
|
| I've been back and forth--first I go back to WMM and edit the movie
| even more to reduce the length. But I should be able to put a 1-hour
| 53 min movie onto a DVD, right?? I'm using DVD-R format.
|
| I've also tried saving the movie from WMM in lower-quality NTSC
| formats. That does reduce the size of the file, but the result in
| Roxio is the same, it won't burn the DVD and says it's too long.
|
| I don't understand where to go from here. I could edit the movie yet
| again and split it into two movies and try to burn each separately to
| DVD, but that's a huge inconvenience. Besides, commercial DVDs have
| long movies on them, why can't I do the same? And I don't have any
| "special features", fancy titles or anything. I have just one menu
| item to play the movie, that's it.
|
| Help!
|
| Thanks, in advance!
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