Roxio Popcorn 3 - HELP?

[jphuber1959]

I have a 2.25 hour EyeTV file, that I export to Toast. Then, I place it in Popcorn 3 (which is supposed to compress the video to fit on a 4.7g DVD-R). I get this message:

"The DVD-R requires 4.43g of space and you only have 4.38g avaiable"/

What do I do to solve this issue?????

[lawnman]

Your Computer Specs say you are running Panther, is Popcorn 3 compatible with Panther?

System Requirements for Popcorn 3

* Macintosh computer with PowerPC G4, G5, or Intel® processor
* Mac OS X v10.4.10 or higher
* 300 MB of free disk space to install
* Up to 15 GB of temporary free disk space during usage
* QuickTime 7.1.6 or higher

Did you update Popcorn to 3.0.2?

It supposed to fix:

Popcorn 3.0.2:
- Popcorn 3 is now compatible with Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard)
- Resolves issue where DVD chapters were not correctly preserved as bookmarks
- DTS audio is no longer incorrectly identified as MPEG-1
- Language of audio tracks is now correctly displayed to user
- Users can now properly switch between PAL and NTSC output settings for DVD-Video
- Should no longer receive error 1634955892 when using physical DVD source
- Exporting from DVD source should longer cause error –43 or -206
- Resolves issue where exporting to 3G format would generate an error message
- Resolves synchronization issue experienced when using 24fps H.264 content
- Resolves issue where disabling Fit-To-DVD compression generated -50 error
- Resolves issue where Fit-to-DVD video compression calculation was incorrect
- Resolves issue with black frames appearing in video after conversion
- TiVo recordings created after TiVo’s Fall 2007 DVR update will no longer cause the application to hang during encoding

Toast Video Player v1.0.2:
- TiVo HD recordings now play back at correct speed

[jphuber1959]

Unsure why the computer specs say Panther. Machine specs are:

Tiger OS, latest version
G4 dual 1.25
1 gig of ram
Pioneer DVR-105 drive

Popcorn 3.0.2, plus latest version fo Toast
Latest version of EyeTV 2 was used for the video capture from broadcast

[ffooky]

At the risk of sounding condescending, have you put a check in the box that says something like "Use Fit to DVD Compression" which is in the bottom left hand corner of the main Popcorn window ?

[jphuber1959]

Yes - I made sure of that

[Frobozz]

Popcorn only does the compression after the video has been authored into a VIDEO_TS folder. So what you need to do is first choose Save as Disc Image from the File menu. When that is done select the disc image using the Image File setting in the Copy window. Now when you go to burn the DVD Popcorn will do the compression before burning the disc.

[ffooky]

Have you tried the Roxio Popcorn forum ? All I can suggest is maybe trying another of EyeTV's export options, maybe the program stream one and have Toast make a DVD from that.

Come to think of it, why do you need to go through Popcorn, I thought Toast itself was capable of requantising or whatever the compression process is called.

[jphuber1959]

The disc image to video_TS approach is one I have not tried yet. Thank you.

On the other post, I have both Toast and Popcorn because I thought they were both needed to cover all the different possibilities.

[Frobozz]

I like having both Toast 8 and Popcorn 3. Popcorn is my preference when doing the projects that it is designed to do. It is better than Toast at some of those tasks and identical at others. Toast, of course, does many other things plus has a few video features not in Popcorn.