QT Pro avi to mpeg export help

[pgseye]

Am I missing something here?

I am wanting to convert avi files to mpegs so I can burn them in Toast as a VCD. I have tried exporting a 650 meg avi file with QT Pro and it gives me an error message saying that the movie will not fit on a CD once exported.

Do I have to split the file into smaller segments first?

Does QT normally export large avi files with no trouble?

I have just tried exporting a 134 meg avi and that gave me a 300 meg mpeg file. How much decompression do you on average get, going from an avi to an mpeg? For example, does a 650 meg avi become a 1.3 gig mpeg (2x)??

As an aside, I understand that divx is a highly compressed format, but if I had the choice between downloading a movie that was both in avi and VCD (bin/cue) form (and download time/size wasn't an issue), which should I get? Which gives the better quality picture?

[ZeroSix]

when exporting to mpeg within quicktime, the file size of the source file is irrevelant. What QT looks at is the DURATION. You can only fit 74-80 min of video ona a single VCD. You would need to split the movie to fall within those guidelines.

Hope this helps.