Toast encoded film won't fit on DVD

[jason_nevin]

Hi All

I've created a film in iMovie and saved it as a disc image using Toast. Now I'm trying to save the image to DVD-R and I'm getting the message "There's not enough free space on this disk 2443440 sectors are needed 2298496 sectors avilable." I'm using a G3 and it took 4 days to encode this video. Is there any way that I can reduce the size without re-encoding?

Ritek media and Pioneer DVR106 writer. Toast 6.

Thanks.

[chikanakan]

You could use Popcorn.

http://www.roxio.com/en/products/popcorn/index.jhtml

[Frobozz]

Never mind what I posted earlier. The solution is using Popcorn.

[jason_nevin]

Took chikanakan's advice and purchased Popcord. Working a treat so far! Cheers all.

[decay]

how much free space on the hard drive that Toast uses as a scratch disk?

dk

[Frobozz]

how much free space on the hard drive that Toast uses as a scratch disk?

dk

Are you asking about Toast or about Popcorn?
With Toast you can select the location of its scratch folder (called Roxio Converted Items). How much space it needs depends on what you're needing to encode. My experience is that you need about twice the space of your DVD.

As for Popcorn, it starts by making a disc image file that is the same size as the VIDEO_TS folder you're trying to compress. When the compression reaches the end, that disc image file magically changes size to 4.32 GB.