made a DVD in Sonic DVDit and it's too big????

[jw33]

I took 2hr 17mn of some VHS footage and pressed it down to 3.5gig adn added some menus and sound in DVDit and came up with a Video TS folder of 4.5gig. Went to burn it with Nero and it says the disc can only hold like 4.3.. what?

[Gees]

Your authoring program may have made lpcm audio or re-encoded files to be within spec.

All is not lost. :c) Use a transcoder like DVDshrink to resize your existing files down to fit DVDr.

No need to start over.

PS - even though DVDr discs are labeled "4.7", it is actually less, as Nero was advising.

[lordsmurf]

I took 2hr 17mn of some VHS footage and pressed it down to 3.5gig adn added some menus and sound in DVDit and came up with a Video TS folder of 4.5gig. Went to burn it with Nero and it says the disc can only hold like 4.3.. what?

DVDit! has a flaw. It should NEVER have let you author the 4.5 GB project, but it does. DVDit! thinks 4.7GIG DVD-R is a 4.7GB file. It is not a 4.7 GIG DVD-R is really 4.38GB on a computer.

If you have the PE edition, you can make the audio AC3. It is likely PCM causing all that lost space.