[MacDV] Re: More than 90 minutes

[Brent Radbourne]

You're getting too complicated.   Simply, the capacity of a blank dvd 
is 4.4 gig.


On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 01:28  PM, Michael Winter wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
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