what can i do with this .mov

[gr8fl4295]

hello all,
I've got this 2.71GB .mov file that I want to burn to DVD.
When I drop it on to Toast and click burn, it says that 11GB are needed.
It's a 4 hour movie.
whats my next move?
thanks

here's the info ffmpegX is giving me for the .mov:
Video: mpeg-4, size: 704x352, 23.976 fps. Audio: faad, 44100Hz, 128 kbps.

[galactica]

wow
well you can use TOAST and save it as a disk image. once the image is done you can mount it and use DVD2ONE to make it fit to a dvdr. However that will probably look as good as looking though a glass of milk!

Id suggest perhaps converting it over to mpeg 1 or 2 depending on its bitrate. That said you can easily fit a 2-3 gig mpeg file into a dvdr with no compression needed. Since its mpeg4 simply demuxing it and authoring into dvd wont work [or will it?! with mpeg4?! ive never tried]

but i would personally get that baby over to .mpeg and then demux it and author with something like sizzle

[live4ever]

Toast needs more room to process the files than the resulting video will be. For example I just used Toast for a 1h45min movie and it said it required almost 6 gigs to process, so I changed the Preference for the Roxio Converted Items folder to another disk with more room on it.

But for you I'd split the movie in half in QT Pro and make 2 DVDs if you want to make it at least watchable.

[galactica]

if you go the sizzle route, you wont loose any quality as it can easily hold 3+ gigs of mpeg on a dvdr

[pixeljammedia]

Use FFMPEGX to get the best bitrate for MPEG2 video given the variables of 4 hours on one DVD. Using FFMPEGX would mean just one re-encode from your QT movie rather than a second re-encode with DVD2OneX after Toast is done encoding. Toast seems to have a constant bitrate MPEG2 encoder so the size of the finished product has more to do with the length of your movie than the size of your original file. The only controls Roxio gives you over the bitrate are the cryptic high or standard quality settings. Instead, find out what the best bitrate you can have to fit 4 hrs. one 1 DVD is. It seems to be approx. 3000 kbit/s, but get the actual length of the movie to try to get the best encode you can.

[thoughton]

Have you considered encoding it at half D1 (use the DVD low bitrate preset in ffmpegX)? Your 2.7 gig mov will probably come out at around 4.5 - 5 gigs at that size, and using dvd2onex on it won't be so bad.

[WiseWeasel]

Have you considered splitting the .mov into two halves, and making DVDs out of those? You'll lose less quality that way.

[terryj]

I have a file, 2 hrs15minutes, that was an .avi, and I got it to process
through Divx Doctor II to a movie file.
The resulting movie file, which showed it was compressed with 3iVX (HQ),
came to about 2.3GB! Needless to say using Toast was out of the question, even with Toast's scratch pointing towards a 20GB HD,
i still got the errors of "not enough disc space", although
mine also added that Toast would need to fit it on a 7.3 GB disc!

I ended up creating a preset in Compressor that would target my low end
bitrate at 2.3mbps, and my high end at 5.5mpbs, and the file came out
good ( no stutters, but not quite as good as say if I topped the
high end out at 7.0mbps), and only at 1.3GB. Running the audio
through a.pack got me a 231MB ac3 file, and I was able to author
with DVDSP2.

so if you can either split the file, and/or encode to MPEG-2 at a low
to med bit rate, I say go for it.