Why does DVDWS inflate my project?

[Prize Racer]

Hi all,

Though I've read similar threads herein, I have yet to find a suitable fix for my situation. I have a 3.6GB, DVD-ready .mpg plus - roughly - 600MB of additional .mpgs (short movie trailers, a "making of"). This all should total around 4.2GB. However, DVDWS inflates this to over 5GB. Why? (FYI, I cut and rendered everything through Vegas Video 3.0 - a program I've been using for over a year without prior error. Also - as per previous threads - I emptied all excess files from my project folder.)

As a backup, I tried authoring and burning with DVDit and wound up with a similar situation.

Any and all help appreciated.

Thanks!

[lgh529]

DVD Workshop is probably re-encoding the file. If the mpg is DVD compliant, then you need to tell it not to Encode compliant files. Can't remember exactly how off hand since I don't use this anymore. Search the forums since this has been discussed several times.

Forgot, DVDit always re-encodes.

[jrsdsl]

Make sure you check the "do not convert compliant files" check box". Might not be the exaxt wording of that option but close.

Hmm..DVDit never re-encoded of of the DVD's I authored, but I think you have to make the settings match exactly to your projects assets; bitrate, resolution, etc. Maybe I was just lucky