Encoding for DVD with DVDit PLEASE HELP ME

[Neishaverse]

I have a 1hr 35 min video project. I used Sonic Foundry's Video factory to encode it at MPEG-II with video bit rate of 5900 and audio at 192. This gives me a MPEG file 4.23 Gigs in size. I tried to burn it on DVD with DVDit! PE Ver 2.3.3 and it's telling me it wont fit. It says the project is over 5 GB when I go into the project settings before i do the burn. In the audio setting of DVDit! I have selected to use Dolby Digital at 192, 160, and even 128. I went back in Video Factory and took the 12 plus hours to re-encode the project at a lower rate of 5200 and audio at only 160. The new file was only 3.72 GB, and DVDit! STILL claims the project is too big. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?? Also I am using a simple image as my menue with only 1 button. A extreamly simple DVD layout. I would hate to have to go under 5000 bit rate for project only 95 minutes long. I don't see how so many places claim a DVD can hold about 133 minutes, when anything over 95 minutes is gonna look so crappy.

PLEASE HELP ME!!
Barney

[Jestorius]

The 4.7 DVD-R is only ca. 4.2 Gb. Before you burn your DVD you have to refresh the project settings. If you had some other project in DVDit, than it keeps the size of the file even if you start a new one.

Do you have the correct media-size? CD-R or DVD-R?

At least you can use http://www.tecoltd.com -s bitratewiever to check the mpg2 file.

I had many problems becouse the spike size in my mpeg file. You can cut off the user data at the end of the mpeg.

[Neishaverse]

I have refreshed my project size, and like I also said I even made my file well under 4GB. For some reason DVDit! adds almost a full 1 Gig to my actual MPEG file. Someone told me it's because DVDit! converts my MPEG's audio to PCM. I would accept that if I only had the LE version of the softwear, but I don't. I have the full PE version that allows for Dolby Digital compressed audio. If I go into the Audio settings and leave it at PCM Audio the project size is abut 1 GIG larger then my MPEG file, and if I change the audio to Dolbdy Digital (Even as low as 128kbps) save my project and then refresh the project size, it's still says the same size.

[Gary]

I have this problem with DVDit all of the time. Make sure that the Audio is not set to PCM, then change the size from DVD to User defined and bump it to like 6Gb or so. Then use DVDit to create your DVD files to directories rather than burn to the DVD. Once this is complete you can look at the total size of your VIDEO_TS folder to make sure that it fits on the DVD. Use Prassi to burn from the hard disk files as it won't burn if it doesn't fit!

Good luck!