[MacDV] Help! Can't get my DVD Studio Pro project to fit... :(

[Wayne E. Miller]

I had the same problem with transfering my VHS tapes to DVD.
I could only get about an hour and a half on each one. Searched
the net and found this web page:

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/a_pack_warmouth.html

Using his tip and encoding with A.Pack I can now get over 2
hours on a DVD. As long as all you need is simple stereo sound
it works great.

Wayne

Peter Payne wrote:

> 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
>
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