fitting captured video on dvd

[illyad]

I am using Nero 6 ultra edition and I want to know how to burn a captured video to dvd-r. The captured video is too long to burn on a single dvd. I need to know how to divide the captured video into two or multiparts. I can't seem to find the proceedure in the user guides. TIA.

[mats.hogberg]

In what format is your capture?
The procedure is to either capture at the correct bitrate mpeg, or encode the captured AVI to the correct bitrate. "Correct bitrate" is found using a bitrate calculator.

/Mats

[gjvdwiel]

Hello,

after finishing a DVD project I output it to a DVD folder on my harddisk, whether it would fit on a DVD or not. Then I use DVD Shrink to analyse and backup the contents of the folder. Then I use Nero to burn the backup folder to DVD.

Regards,

[mats.hogberg]

IMO, using shrink should be a last resort, when you've made an irreversible f*ckup earlier in your process - not a standard procedure. Encoding at random bitrates, then shrinking to fit yields lower quality than doing it "right" to begin with.

/Mats

[smkranz]

To answer the original question about how to split the video into two and burn to two DVDs, maybe this is a little pedestrian, but what I would do is first add the entire file to your project, then go to Edit Movie. What you'll do here is simply delete a portion of the video from this project, then either Export it if you want to save that half as a separate file, or just continue to burn that portion to DVD. Use the slider underneath the little TV screen and/or hour/minute/second arrows to navigate to where you want to split the video. Hit the "Split Item" button underneath the viewing screen...it's the button that looks like a ladder (supposed to be a film clip, I guess). This will create two objects in your storyboard or timeline. Click on and delete the one you don't want for this half of your video, then proceed to either Export it as a new file, or proceed to burn it to DVD-R. If you export it, just make sure you give it a different name so you don't overwrite the original file.

Then start another project and do the same thing, by reopening the entire original file, go to the same "split point", and deleting the other half of the original video.

[reboot]

The captured video is too long to burn on a single dvd.

No such thing (almost).
Start by looking in the guides for avi -> mpeg conversion.
Read up about bitrate.
What type of file is your source?