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

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Well there you have it.

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PJ


In a message dated 3/17/2004 5:29:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, Peter Payne <peter2 at jlist.com> writes:

>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
>
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