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WebbySP
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21. September 2003 @ 12:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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
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Discmania
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21. September 2003 @ 15:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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.

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WebbySP
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21. September 2003 @ 19:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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
Discmania
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22. September 2003 @ 05:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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.
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22. September 2003 @ 05:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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

Nothing here to see, move along folks.

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 22. September 2003 @ 05:45

yuedana
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22. September 2003 @ 06:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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.
Discmania
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22. September 2003 @ 12:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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

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WebbySP
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22. September 2003 @ 12:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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
Discmania
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22. September 2003 @ 14:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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.
WebbySP
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22. September 2003 @ 20:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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 ;)
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TokyoPete
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18. October 2003 @ 09:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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.
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