Wedding Video To DVD

[lynnie]

I have told a good friend "yes I can put your wedding video to dvd," whoops.

Well I have managed to get it to my pc, it is 90 mins long and my pc has split it into 3 files, now the only way to get it to dvd is copying each file separately to separate dvd's, it won't let me burn the whole amount because its 2gb per file. Can I get around this? Have I got to burn 3 separate dvds? Do I tell my friend I don't know what I am talking about.

*if anybody can help I would be grateful.


Lynn

[AngusMacGyver]

Tell us more about your capture process. What was the software that you used to capture? Those 3 files are mpg, avi...?
Without these information, it's hard to help you.

[lynnie]

Hi

I used power cinema to get the video to hard drive and I am trying to use the power director pro to get it to dvd.



Lynn

[lynnie]

Sorry mpg files

[leebo]

90 minutes of video comes to 6 gigs of Mpeg2??

What are your encoding specs? You should be able to fit two hours of video on a disc (4.36gigs).

You must have encoded at a higher bitrate than necessary. Have you read up on DVD authoring b4 posting your question?

[lynnie]

Hi Leebo

Yes I am copying it at the best quality, therefore that is probably why the file is so big. thanks for help will redo and change the quality a bit.


*jeees this video is boring.


Lynn

[housepig]

check what type of audio compression is being used as well - if you're using PCM audio, that takes up enormous amounts of space, and does not sound better than AC3 or MP2.

If your capture app allows you to select, try one of those - if it doesn't, either reconvert your audio or find a more robust capture app.

and yeah... wedding vid is boring... why don't you give him the 10 minute, MTV-style edit version?

[AngusMacGyver]

My sugestion is loading those files into DVD2AVI and following guides in how convert DVD to SVCD, making adaptions when necessary.
I hope this helps you.

[spiderman2k1]

TMPG use that to make the file's small to fit on DVD-R.

[ciulian_a]

Do you have windows 98 OS?This OS don`t let you make video files
biger then 2GB.Change your OS to Win 2000,Win XP (NTFS file system) .