Lost in Japan

[Laurie, Richard]

Lost in Japan,

It looks like you are bumping up against the 2 hour limit for single
layer DVDs. Your movies are over two hours and when you add in the
menus, you are getting files over the 4.7 GB that you can fit on the
disk.

I am not familiar with DVD Studio Pro, but are you supposed to be able
to create DVD of over two hours? If not, you will need to edit down your
movies to free up space for your menus.

Richard


Message-Id: <p0602044abc7dd8e18f4a@[192.168.1.224]>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:29:08 +0900
From: Peter Payne <peter2 at jlist.com>
Subject: [MacDV] Help! Can't get my DVD Studio Pro project to fit... :(

I am burning my first "professional" DVD projects, but I'm having the 
hardest time getting the media to fit into 4.3 GB of space. I've got 
two movies, which are an hour and 18 minutes, and 47 minutes, I need 
to fit onto the disc. I've tried a variety of ways of making the 
media smaller, but it always seem to want to be 4.7 GB or more when 
displayed in the DVDSP disc meter. I cannot get the movies to fit, no 
matter what I do.

I've tried various things. Of course I've tried changing the bit rate 
setting in DVDSP, but it doesn't seem to change the size of my 
project at all. Instead of exporting full-quality Quicktime movies 
with Final Cut Pro Express 2 and importing them into DVDSP, I am 
playing with doing the conversion in Compressor, but so far (using 
settings for 120 minutes) I am getting nowhere -- when I import those 
MPEG-2 movies into DVDSP and put them in my project, the overall size 
is way too big again.

Can anyone help? Why does changing the bit rate in DVD Studio Pro to 
1 or 2 product no overall difference in the size of my project as 
written out to a DVD-R?

Thanks in advance

Lost in Japan