Burning large file onto CD or DVD

[Tom in HD]

I want to burn a quicktime video file onto a CD or DVD because I am sending it to a film festival. Not for playing in a DVD player, but simply as data that can be dragged to another computer. I do it all the time with smaller files but this one is 22 gigs in length. None of the CD's or DVD's I know of can hold something that big. DVD's hold about 4 gigs but it's not enough. So my question is, are there special discs that can hold a lot more data?

Thanks

[guns1inger]

Bluray, if you have a bluray burner. Otherwise you will have to either chop it up into smaller chunks, re-encode it to be much smaller, or use something like a large memory card or portable USB HDD.

If the file is DV then you could consider re-encoding it to H264, which will reduce the file size substantially while maintaining quality. Even a 90 minute DVD would be of good quality and would fit on a DVD5.

Of course it also depends on what the requirements are for the film festival. Some set pretty stringent conditions on the format of movies submitted.

[tomlee59]

In some cases, they will accept files stored on a USB flash drive, so that possibly gives you another option. 32GB drives are now going for ~50-75 dollars, so it's not totally loony.

[rumplestiltskin]

If the movie is only going to be viewed on a computer, why not just transcode it into H264 with a frame-size small enough to fit a single-layer DVD? Any (reasonable modern) computer with QuickTime installed will then be able to play it.