[MacDV] How to fill a DVD

[Steven Rogers]

On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 07:01 PM, Shirley Kehr wrote:

> On a DVD that had a 26-minute movie and a couple slide shows, only 
> about half the disk was used (as determined by turning it over and 
> looking at the color change).
>
> I really wanted another slide show on the DVD, but didn't know if 
> there would be enough room. In this case, should I have assumed that 
> the movie would fill about 2 GB and then add up the original file 
> sizes of the slides to see how many I could fit in the other 2 GB?

In the status tab of the theme window, it tells you how much time is 
currently used on the disk.

The simplest thing, if you have doubts, is just to drop the asset in 
and see whether iMovie says it fits or not. If you go over 90 minutes, 
iMovie will tell you.

> Or, does iDVD compress the slides so that they don't take up anything 
> close to their original sizes?

Right

SR