Burning DVD after editing

[Videographer]

I use Pinnacle Studio 12 and just edited a video which is too big for a 4.7 GB DVD disc, or at least that's what Pinnacle shows. The original video has a .MOD extension and when I edited and redered it, now it is an .AVI video. My question is, is there any way to edit it using another type of video format so that it can fit on a 4.7 GB DVD disc? and if there is no way, how can I burn this video on several DVD disc?, how can I figure out how many video clips can be burnt on a standard 4.7 GB DVD disc?.

Thank you all for your help.

[aedipuss]

avi isn't dvd compliant. you need to create a dvd folder with ifos bups and vobs. or export dvd compliant mpeg-2 video and ac-3, mpeg-2 or pcm wav audio and then author to a dvd folder.

[gonwk]

Hi Videographer,

Try DVDFlick ... under Project Settings ... use DVD(4.3GB) ... I think that might do the trick.

G!

[yoda313]

To videographer - what is your end goal? If you want this to be playable on a dvd player you will need to properly encode and author it as a dvd. Pinnacle has a profile to output to dvd - and to size it to fit your destination size.

If you have a dual layer dvd burner you can buy dual layer dvds and burn it if its 8gb or less (it gets technical on the true "definition" of what 8gbs is in real world terms). But you will only be able to use it as a data file on a computer in its current state.

As I see it you have a few options:

1 - copy the file to a usb hard drive or flash drive that is large enough for it (again for computer playback only)

2 - go back to your source material and use pinnacle to output a proper dvd for a single layer disc - or dual layer disc if you can burn dual layer - and you have dual layer discs to burn to

3 - use another program to convert the avi to dvd with menus and burn to disc - as gonwk mentioned dvdflick can do it as can multiavchd or avstodvd or any other number of good freeware programs


-----I think for best quality assuming you still have your source files and your project saved in pinnacle is to load your project again and reencode it from the source files into a proper dvd structure. Choose dvd single layer 4.7gb as your output destination and pinnacle will get you your video_ts folder ready to burn the first time around when you restart the encoding.

But you should reencode from the ORIGINAL files to get the best output.

You can reencode to dvd from this avi that you made but you should start over from the source files to do it right the first time.


Edit - you don't mention what type of "avi" file this is. If its a divx or xvid or h264 file you MIGHT be able to play it back on a dvd player or bluray player as it is. But you won't have menu support it will just be the file - unless you made a divx plus video with menus - but your player must be divx plus certified to read the menu - otherwise it would just see the files.

Also if this is high def video regular dvd players 99% of the time won't play back high def divx files. And I don't know if there are any dvd players that play back h264 video at all - there probably are but I don't know which ones do and they still won't likely playback high def h264 at any rate.

Edit 2 - one last thing - if you go the route of making a dvd from your avi but you didn't select single layer as your output you can use dvd shrink to transcode it to fit a single layer dvd. However this will further reduce quality. How much so depends on how much over a single layer disc you are.

Again this is why it is important to start over with the source files and choose a single layer dvd as your destination the first time around to preserve as much as you can. You still might be pressing too much and you might not get great quality depending on source and video length and all that. But you should encode as few times as possible to reduce any degradation of the video.