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[BOXINGJUNKIE]

Just started using DVD It. Having a problem. I have my movie that I encoded with TMPGE. The final size of the movie is 4.02 gig. When I load the movie into DVD It, add one menu, one button, it says the size of the project is 4.97 gig. One menu and one button takes this much room? Im not sure why it takes up so much room, is it something that Im doing or is this normal? Is there another way around this, other than cutting my video, or reencoding to a lower bit rate? Thanks.

Boxingjunkie

[lordsmurf]

It may be set to encode audio as PCM, not AC3.

[Forum Troll]

I use these tools also. I have found if I keep the final estimated size of the file in TMPGENC at 3.9 Gb, it will fit perfectly in DVDIt. I've noticed that DVDit adds about 600 mb overhead in its project size estimate, so plan accordingly when you encode your mpegs.

[turk690]

Is it a motion menu? Motion menus can occupy lots of space. They are some of the reasons it's difficult to predict exactly how big a DVD-video volume will end up. I recently concluded a 2.5hr project, where authoring was done by TMPGenc DVD-Author; the *.m2v file was taken off the Premiere timeline through MainConcept, using "4x3 NTSC medium" bitrate settings, and audio exported first as *.wav, and separately encoded to an *.ac3 stream at 192kbps (best way I've found of maintaining AV sync) with BeSweet. A 1-min *.m2v stream was used as background menu, and DVD-Author did say it was all 100MB over 4485MB (DVD-R space limit) which Nero wouldn't accept. Faced with the prospect of re-encoding the *.m2v stream, I simply took the original *.wav and ran it again through BeSweet at 160kbps (still too big), then finally 128kbps where mercifully it fit with about 40MB to spare. The audio consisted mostly of speeches and crowd noise which wouldn't sound better or worse at 128kbps, but if there was music I would have to re-encode the *.m2v because I will use no less than 192kbps for the *.ac3. I am likewise told some DVD players have difficulties playing back 2-ch DD streams less than 192kbps or higher than 256kbps.

[BOXINGJUNKIE]

Thanks for the replys. No Im not using motion menus. Just a plain background, one button and the title. Next time I will just make the file smaller in TMPGE. One more question, this time about SpruceUp. I had used Spruce for awhile and liked it. Very simple. I reformated my computer and now when I open my clip up, to set the chapter points, Spruce just crashes now. The preview wont work. I have my DVD codecs installed. I can watch DVD's on my computer so why wont the movie play in Spruce anymore??

Thanks Boxingjunkie