[MacDV] Re: More than 90 minutes

[Michael Winter]

On Dec 4, 2003, at 11:14 AM, Preston wrote:

>>
>> It said there was not enough room on the disk.
>
>
> Instead of thinking DVD disk, think Hard Drive disk. Toast needs room 
> on your internal HD to encode your project before it burns it to your 
> Blank DVD media. Make more room on your HD or get an external FW 
> drive. Just give your project plenty of space and you should be fine.

I just gave it another try (video length is 1:33:51), and get the same 
message :

"There's not enough free space on this disc: 2358902 sectors (4.5 GB) 
are needed, 2298496 sectors (4.4 GB) are available."

There's over 25 GB free on my internal (startup + applications) disk, 
and over 30 GB free on the Firewire drive containing the iMovie 
project. I even tried selecting "Standard" video quality instead of 
"High" as someone else has suggested.

Any other ideas? I'm wondering if the "real" cutoff isn't somewhere 
between the 91 minutes that someone else got to work and the almost 94 
minutes that I have. Just doing a little quick math, 2358902 
sectors/5631 seconds = 418.9 sectors of disk required for every second 
of video, thus the DVD (2298496 sectors) will hold ~91 min 27 sec of 
video. Has anyone else successfully gotten Toast 6 to write a DVD 
longer than this?

I guess its back to looking for other tools to do the encoding.

TIA

-Mike