Pinnacle still says File still to large for DVD

[flameout]

I'm real new at doing this, even though I had bought Pinnacle Studio 9 last year. I have about a 90 min video, which I saved to my HD by running my old Sony TRV-65 through my Canopus ADVC-100 (Saved as an .avi file capturing with Pinnacle).

I did lots of editing, attempted a few menus and chapters, and final video is about 72 minutes, and it says it's still to large for a 4.7 gig DVD. I changed Settings to show it's going on a 8.5 gig DVD instead, thinking I could later use something like DVD shrink to burn to a 4.7 DVD. (although reading through some posts, it looks like I need to change the bitrate to make it fit??)

I'm rendering right now. Looks like it may take a few hours (P4 3.2ghz) Should I have captured this as an mpeg rather then avi? I thought the avi would be a higher quality

[mats.hogberg]

If you're going to put it on DVD, it will be mpeg anyway. If you have the opportunity to capture straight to DVD mpg, and don't plan to do any edits, there's no reason to use AVI as an intermediate step.

/Mats

[donpedro]

On the other side... never capture to MPG if you are planing to do editing. DV AVI is your best option (just data copy=no loss from MiniDV camcorder)

[gguerra3]

Prior to rendering video adjust the data rate and other settings so that it will fit on standard 4.7gb DVD.