Re: How big will output file be ?
- From: "PapaJohn" <papajohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:09:52 -0400
Movie Maker can't make a DVD or the MPEG-2 files that go on it. When a Media
Center Edition of XP has a save to DVD option, it passes the files to a
Sonic plug-in which does the DVD work. In Vista's Movie Maker 6, the option
to go to DVD is taken care of Windows DVD Maker..... never by Movie Maker
itself.
Standard video DVDs can only be made using MPEG-2 files and Movie Maker
can't make that file type, so other software is needed.
As DVD making software can usually take either DV-AVI files or WMV files as
inputs, then yes, saving your movies to WMV files instead of DV-AVI can
lower the amount of hard drive space needed to get through the DVD making
process.
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PapaJohn (MVP)
"- Bobb -" <bobb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When heading to a DVD, an hour of high quality video fits on a disc,
regardless of the source of the files... as your videos will be converted
to MPEG-2 files to go on the disk, with appropriate compression to put
the hour on the disc.
Some DVD software will compress to more than an hour... with a slight
lowering of visual quality for the extra compression needed.
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PapaJohn (MVP)
re: " Some DVD software will compress to more than an hour", aren't we
both talking about using WMM ? So OTHER companies' software may vary, but
WMM should be one hour ?
As I was posting the question yesterday, I was building a project and
moved all my vacation stuff into the collections and - as I'm going
along - just using the timeline to create the movie - I was thinking of "
how much will fit ? ". When the movie got to about 30 minutes I clicked -
"save movie" and the default was DV-AVI mode. It showed error message
"file too big", because the 30 minutes of pictures/video was going to take
11.5gb - I chose wmv as output and the final outfile size was 223mb. So my
settings are wrong somewhere - if 30 minutes = 11gb ?
Also since it took WMM about 100 minutes to "compile/save" that wmv file,
I'm thinking that converting my '.mov files' to avi is wrong ... If WMM
wants mpeg-2, maybe I should just choose to convert to MPEG-2 instead ?
( I currently use Total Video Converter ) and not bother with AVI ? If I
do that then WMM "would already see the file in correct format" ?? and
maybe save 80 minutes of that 100 minutes ?
Sorry for all the questions, but I'm not getting my head around all the
alternatives for getting media onto a DVD ?
"- Bobb -" <bobb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My objective is to record all vacation pictures and video onto one DVD :
1. While creating a project and dragging/dropping pictures/video in
there ( A LOT), how can/would I know how big the wmv fiile will be ? In
less than 4gb fine , but I do NOT want to click on " Create Movie" and
have it take 12 hours to produce a file that is 6.1gb as it will then be
too big for one DVD. Nor "not put it all on there" and have it only come
out to be 3.2GB ( so I COULD have had the rest on there ! )
Any advice or how to estimate output file size ?
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