Re: How big will output file be ?
- From: "Graham Hughes" <graham.hughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:06:47 +0100
Are you using windows media centre edition?
If so, one hour of dv.avi is about 13gb, give or take a few mb.
Using the built in app of the MCE this will allow you to author a dvd using
up to one hour of dv.avi and will convert it to an mpeg2 of about 4gb, give
or take a few mb.
These mpegs are then converted into 1gb vob files which are the files
required by a dvd player to play the disc.
Once the vobs are made the disc is burned.
This is fact, not guesswork.
Now if you don't have MCE, what OS are you using and what is your route to
make the dvd.
If you choose another encoding app, good ones like canopus procoder 3, these
can encode an hour and half (19gb) of dv.avi and produce a dvd of 4gb and it
will be of the same or maybe higher viewing quality, as the encoding engine
algorithms are far superior.
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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com
"- Bobb -" <bobb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It will compress to 4gb ?? Is that a definite thing or are you guessing
about the 13gb ? WMM gave me an error about the 11gb being "too big -
choose another option", so I couldn't choose direct to DVD ( which I'd
like to do rather than fill disk drives with DVD home movies). SO I chose
wmv format and only 225mb.
My objective is not to make high quality for sale movies - just video of
my last roadtrip to give to others on trip, so that's why I'd rather
direct-to-DVD if I can by the "error message". One step and I get a
master then just clone them and done.
Thanks
"Graham Hughes" <graham.hughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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dv.avi retains the quality though, so you want this option and a 13gb
dv.avi file will compress down to 4gb of mpeg2 on a dvd.
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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com
"PapaJohn" <papajohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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"PapaJohn" <papajohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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