Re: Movie too long - won't fit on DVD

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See, it is late. I just re-read what I wrote and it should have read 12
Gigabyte per hour for the DV-AVI for the video I captured. Good night!

"dickmr" wrote:

> Hi Splunge.....just a few comments I can make about your observations and to
> add to the comments of the others. I just completed a lengthy wedding
> video.....I ended up putting it on two dvd's .....each of 1 hr and 8 mins.
> This is generally the highest quality (1 hr) that will fit on a dvd.....I use
> Movie Factory and it has 4 levels of quality, which you can choose in the
> preferences, such that you could fit up to 60, 90, 120, or 180 minutes on a
> dvd. Of course, the 180 minutes (3 hrs) is 'long play' and of lower
> quality. The 68 mins i got was the max....at the highest quality.
>
> As regards to your question about NTSC high quality and sizes....here is my
> experience. When I 'captured' the raw footage, I had over 3 hrs which I
> edited down to the final movie. That original capture as DV-AVI ran 24
> Gigabytes per hour average. When I saved the final edited movies (In
> short clips of about 15 min each) I saved in both DV-AVI and then saved the
> clip again as NTSC high quality.
> The DV-AVI files remained at 24 gig per hr of video, and the NTSC high
> quality was only at about 700 MEGABYTE per hour. You need to use the
> DV-AVI ones for DVD burning at the best quality.....and I use the NTSC HQ for
> viewing on my computer.
> Later I delete the DV-AVI files, but save the original and projects to an
> external drive.
>
> It isn't the size (i.e. 24 gig per hour) that determines the conversion to
> Mpeg from you Movie Maker video saved in DV-AVI then, it is the quality of it
> based on the time of the video on the dvd. So, I am able to save 24 gig of
> DV-AVI as a one hour <4.7g
> video on dvd at the high quality it can be at that length. I could have
> chosen a lower quality and put the whole two hours on one dvd, but I didnt
> want to do that. Professional dvd's are Dual Layer and thats why full
> length movies fit on one....thats why we now have the new Dual Layered
> Burners and Dvd's available.
>
> Just one suggestion to you.....I think you should lighten up on the length
> of your project.....2 hours of it can become quite complex and time consuming
> to make changes and re-rendering and such. Since I made smaller sections of
> my video, I was able to make changes to those individual 'modules' and resave
> much quicker.
> And then you can put all of the clips in order within your third party
> software for burning onto a dvd.....You must have a pretty good computer if
> you could save a 2 hour video without pulling your hair out.... ha ha ha I
> used a lot of effects and transitions and overlays.....and everything from
> slow motion to black chroma showing confetti falling on the dancers so mine
> was complex even in the shorter clips of about 15 mins. Anyway, good
> luck on getting your project completed. If you have your project saved you
> can always go back and delete first half/second half and save it in two parts
> for an easier method of controlling those huge files.....and with 1 hr parts
> you'll be able to burn it in the highest quality on two dvds possibly. Hope
> I made sense, it is pretty late here ya know!!!! ha ha ha bye....
>
> "Splunge" wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the responses. I will check into the movie size again
> > (MPEG-2). And I will try downloading the update to Roxio 7 and try to
> > burn an ISO image and then try burning that.
> >
> > But just for laughs, can anyone tell me what you "typically" see for a
> > file size (NTSC best quality) for a 2-hour movie in Windows Movie
> > Maker? The files I get are quite big, some as big as 24GB (best
> > quality). And I know going from WAV or whatever WMM is saving as to
> > MPEG-2 isn't going to shrink that much, so no way it fits on a 4.7 GB
> > DVD. I understand that. The movie has a lot of sound/music in
> > it--it's a sports game I filmed and I have music playing throughout,
> > and the music probably is contributing quite a bit to the file size. I
> > might try to cut out the soundtrack and see what that does, too.
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> >
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