DVD Moviefactory, ISO files, and burning them

[Merijeek]

Okay, here's the story.

I have gotten roped into making some DVDs from some low-quality movies. I'm cramming about 4.5GB onto each disc, each of those containing about 4 hours and 15 minutes.

I went ahead and setup all my DVDs...7 of them. I then used MF2se's output to ISO function. Now I've got 7 complete ISOs.

I've done them at different times and have done some experimenting, so there's probably some differences between my configs on them. However, all of them will be set for 352x240.

My big problem is this. I went through and did all this rendering. One of the DVDs is small, only about two hours of low quality, so it's only 3.7GB. That one's the anomaly, so we'll drop that from the list.

So I've got 6 DVDs ISOs. Two of them are fine, but the other four are between 6GB and 7.3GB. Now, the thing is that I am absolutely 100% sure that when I did the ISOs the first time through, they were under 4.7GB.

When I load an ISO in MF2se or Nero or something, I can't change the project properties or anything...

So, are my ISOs useless? Am I going to have to sit through another 30 hours of rendering?

What did I screw up?

Thanks
-Joe

[Merijeek]

Bump.

To add some info, I went ahead and did a reencode on one of those files at the absolute lowest quality.

Acording to DVDMF I was supposed to have a 2.4GB disk.

The size when I tried to burn the .iso? That's right, over 7GB.

Obviously, I'm going to give Ulead the finger and continue on with TMPG utilities. However, I do have about a weeks worth of work invested in these Ulead ISOs I've made.

So, any help will still be appreciated to save me from having to redo these babies. Again.

-Joe

[Specialist]

Please know that the *actual* capacity of current consumer DVD discs is not really 4.7gb.

Instead, the actual capacity is 4.37gb.

So you must keep your content's file size below the 4.37gb mark to assure it will fit on a consumer DVD.

Also, if you start with a file that is too large, then I would suggest that you DE-select the DO NOT CONVERT COMPLIANT FILES check box.

Also, choose an encode setting that will assure your material will fit on the disc.

Some suggested benchmarks:

ONE HOUR PER DVD:

MPEG files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
(DVD-NTSC), 4:3
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 8000 kbps)
LPCM Audio, 48 KHz, Stereo

1.5 HOURS PER DVD:

MPEG files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
(DVD-NTSC), 4:3
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 4000 kbps)
LPCM Audio, 48 KHz, Stereo

2.0 HOURS PER DVD:

MPEG files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
(DVD-NTSC), 4:3
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 2500 kbps)
LPCM Audio, 48 KHz, Stereo

3.0 HOURS PER DVD:

MPEG files
24 Bits, 352 x 480, 29.97 fps
(DVD-NTSC), 4:3
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 2500 kbps)
Audio data rate: 224 kbps
MPEG audio layer 2, 48 KHz, Stereo

Hope this helps,

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

[joepic]

I went ahead and setup all my DVDs...7 of them. I then used MF2se's output to ISO function. Now I've got 7 complete ISOs......

So I've got 6 DVDs ISOs. Two of them are fine, but the other four are between 6GB and 7.3GB. Now, the thing is that I am absolutely 100% sure that when I did the ISOs the first time through, they were under 4.7GB......

So, are my ISOs useless? Am I going to have to sit through another 30 hours of rendering?

The latest version of DVD Shrink 3.1.7 will take a .ISO file as input. You could shrink it down to 4.37GB.