DVDit 6 Pro movie compression problem
by Tofuspeed
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Jul 4, 2006 at 4:36:18 pm
Hi, I have searched the forums but it seems like no one else has this problem that I have. After working on a indie film that I've made, I've exported it as a raw DV file that is 16 gigs big. Knowing this doesn't fit in a DVD, I encoded it in Xvid to 2 gigs to hopefully still retain it's quality and to fit a DVD.
When I drag it into my project, it tells me that I went over the 4.7 gig limit, despite the fact that it's the ONLY video in the project, it says that I have used up 5 gigs even though it's only 2 gigs. I've tried other videos that are compressed with the same method and they retain their original file size. Please help.
Re: DVDit 6 Pro movie compression problem by Tofuspeed on Jul 4, 2006 at 5:40:01 pm
Just extra stuff I've noticed too. I also made a few featurette videos which are like 5 to 10 minutes long and noticed that their file size hasn't been resized at all. Could this be because of their actual playing length that affects the compression by the program?
Re: DVDit 6 Pro movie compression problem by SS Scott on Jul 5, 2006 at 4:59:57 pm
xvid is not a legal DVD format. You need to convert the DV to MPEG-2 in order to really know what the size of the video is. DVDit will transcode your video to MPEG-2 (though I don't know if it transcodes xvid), you have transcoding settings in the project settings tab that dictate the bit rate. you may be able to play with those settings a bit to get the video to fit onto a DVD.
also, do an online search for a DVD bitrate calculator. that will let you compute how long a video you can fit on a 4.7 gig disc at various bit rates.
