Wrong file sizes in Nero

[jhan]

I'm trying to make a VCD of a movie I have. The movie is about 699mb or so... so it should fit on a CD.

But when I import it into Nero, it says the file size is 1150mb, and won't fit on a CD.

Why does it balloon the size up so much? The video I'm importing is already converted, and it's the final version of what I want on the CD. How can I get it to burn without changing/re-encoding/whatever?

[Baldrick]

You can fit 74/80 minutes on a CD in VCD format, see www.videohelp.com/vcd . The source file size doesn't matter.

Burn as a DVD-Video on a DVD if you want it on one disc...or get a dvd player with avi divx/xvid support and you can just burn the avi as a data on cd.

[redwudz]

What Baldrick said. VCD format has a fixed bitrate (1150Kbps) to be compliant with the format. If your video duration is 74/80 minutes, it will fit on a CD. Nero is likely trying to re-encode the video. It does poorly at that and also routinely re-encodes compliant video.

If you plan to do VCD format fairly often, try using TMPGEnc encoder for the conversion to MPEG-1. It's freeware for that. Then you need a authoring program for the VCD format. A few here: http://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=4#4 VCDEasy is one of the best, but it is payware. Well worth the cost if you do this often.

And welcome to our forums.

[guns1inger]

If you are trying to burn a non-standard VCD then you may have to use something other than Nero.

[jhan]

Thanks guys! Looks like it'll have to be DVD then, I guess.

[jman98]

You can also buy an MPEG editor such as VideoReDo or MPEGVCR and use it to split your encoded video into 2 pieces and make 2 VCDs out of your video.