[MacDV] Help - Can't burn 330MB onto a 650MB CR-ROM

Michael Winter winter at mac.com
Thu Jan 13 08:21:48 PST 2005


On Jan 13, 2005, at 9:54 AM, Art Amolsch wrote:

> I downloaded SJ's Keynote. The file is 329.9MB.
>
> But when I try to burn it to a blank CD using TOAST 6,
> An error message tells me I need 1GB of space and so
> can't complete the burn. Naturally, this has me puzzled,
> and if someone here can tell me what I'm doing wrong,
> I sure would appreciate it.

I'm guessing you're trying to burn it as a VCD? If so, its going to 
transcode it to MPEG1 and the file size will increase. You can only fit 
~1 hour of video on a VCD using  Toast 6's built-in encoding.

-Mike



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