Okay i would love some help on this, i have a couple movies on my computer in AVI format, i have roxio easy cd/dvd creator, and a dvd rw drive in my computer so i am capable of burning dvds, i have burned numerous dvds for mostly music videos and live songs, but when i try to burn my AVI files to a DVDR it says that they are way too big for the dvd, i have followed the instructions in the AVI to dvd thread but still cannot fit my movies onto a dvd, pleaseeeeee someone help me its really frustrating, any help at all is greatly appriciated. thanks
You didn't say how many you were trying to fit on a disk. There is a limit as to how many can go on a disk since the disks have a finite storage limit.
You can only get around 4300MB onto a DVD5 and a tad more than 8GB onto a DVD9.
What software are you using? AVI2DVD or some other?
Are you trying to convert them to be DVD compliant so they'll play back on standalone players?
Well you can actually get around 4464MB on a SL blank. Most authoring apps have a place to adjust the video bitrate, NeroVision for example has pre-sets plus a place to actually enter a numerical value. Some apps may have a 'Quality' setting that adjusts the bitrate. High Quality might mean about an hour per blank, with the bitrate being maxed at about 8000. The bitrate corresponds to the length (in minutes) of the original source.
im only trying to fit one movie on a dvd, i used TMPGEnc to lower the bitrate but the movie came out a shape that it wasnt in before, i didnt think that was supposed to happen.
All have free trials. ConvertX and DVD Santa watermark their trial version output. There are so many different combinations and ways of converting the files--too many to elaborate.
These AVIs will already be of reduced video quality as compared to the original source so I wouldn't recommend putting more than one to a DVD. I assume these are 90 minutes plus movies. You can of course put both on the same DVD, but the video quality will be reduced even more and I wouldn't recommend it.
