[MacDV] DV file Data Size

[Djwp]

This is interesting to me because I was just about to write a question 
to list this on a similar topic.  I'm working on a short (15 min) music 
video using scenes from various commercial DVDs.  The DVD scenes are 
ripped to my harddrive and converted to Quicktime DV movie files before 
being used as clips in my FCP project.

I am about 3 minutes into the project.  The music track has been laid 
down in its entirety and I have about three minutes of clips with 
transitions completed.   I did an export to DV just to test the waters. 
   The quality of the clips are excellent - superb really, compared to 
video clips imported from a camera.  But the size of the exported .dv 
file is already 2Gigs for only 3 minutes.

I became concerned that I was going to hit some wall in size at which 
point iDVD would not allow me to import for DVD creation.

Is 12G the limit?  If my DV file turns out to be over 12G but under in 
actual time, will iDVD compress appropriately or will it not even allow 
me to import into a project?

I'd like to know if I'm headed for trouble before I go any further.

Thanks for any insight you might have,
Jill


On Oct 25, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Gregg Gorrie wrote:

> on 10/24/04 3:38 PM, Robert L. Vaessen at rvaessen at mac.com wrote:
>
>> All -
>>
>> Does anyone know a way that I can burn digital video (.dv extesnion) 
>> to
>> a DVD without using iDVD?  I have been having absolutely no luck
>> getting my movie to disc by following Apple's standard iMovie to iDVD
>> to DVD workflow.
>>
>> I have a working digital video file that plays fine in QuickTime 6.5.1
>> (Pro version). The movie is DV/DVCPRO - NTSC format with 48Kb stereo
>> sound. Data size is 13GB. Duration is 32 minutes 27 seconds.
>
> Do you mean the DV file (.mov) data size is 13 GB? A DV format movie 
> file is
> approximately 12 GB/hour, so it makes no sense if you say your movie 
> is 32
> minutes 27 seconds - your movie file should be just over 6 GB if it is
> indeed that time length.
>
>> What can I use to encode it into a Transport Stream (VIDEO_TS) and 
>> burn
>> it to disc?
>
> As mentioned earlier, you can make a DVD in Toast.
>
> Just as an addendum, we had a similar issue (crashing while exporting 
> to
> MPEG-2) on our school computers when we first upgraded to G5's. This 
> was
> using FCP and DVD SP. It turns out that the apps had to be installed 
> in a
> very specific order. Quicktime, DVD SP, and FCP all installed their own
> versions of the Quicktime MPEG-2 extension and apparently there was a
> problem if one installed over the other.
>
> Maybe try to re-install the apps if you haven't already done so.
>
> Good luck!
>
> -- 
> Gregg
>
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