.mov too large for DVD

[franbemadd]

Hi,
I have a video which I want to put on DVD. I captured the video using an Alchemy caputure card. It's now on my HD as a .mov file, 6.4 GB. I tried dropping it in Toast to burn to a DVD but it's too big. How do I compress it to fit? I thought I might be able to open it with DVD2one, but it's greyed out. Would saving it as a disk image help, and if so, how? I have MacTheRipper. Can anything be done using that?
Thanks, Frances

[alexjs77]

toast 6 can save it as a disk image...

[pluche]

if you are using Toast 6,.. then a 6.5 Gb MOV file is no problem at all : I have converted much larger mov files with toast
you have to use the video option for that conversion/burning
Toast 6,.. will do the conversion to DVD formatand then burn; because of the 2 operations, it can take a while

[terryj]

I have encountered this also, where you select the video tab,
and drag and drop a HQ QT mov file of about 6 or 7 GB into
the window, with DVD selected, and it tells you not enough space to author it.
Try checking the location of your Roxio Converted items folder.
If it is on a disk with less than TWICE the amount of the mov file,
then you need to re-assign this scratch folder to somewhere with that amount of space. I have a 100 GB drive, partitioned out to two 30 GB partions for dumping DV video, and two 20GB partions,
one of which to just be assigned as my Roxio Scratch folder.
Now, I never see the problem again.


Or if you only have one drive, try cleaning it up and archiving off crap you don't need anymore to
CD or DVD.
Or at the very least, if you still can't make enough room equal to
14GB, then you will prbably need to use Quicktime Pro to save a lower version of the movie, about med Quality.

Post back and let us know first though if you have enough HD space....

[Ladd]

I have noticed that sometimes Toast 6.x won't let me do a direct AVI-to-DVD-to-burn DVD-R conversion, quoting the "not enough space" error.

I have gotten around this by having Toast convert the AVI-to-DVD to a DVD disc image. The DVD disc image is usually smaller than 4.36 GB, which I can than burn directly to a DVD-R.

(Note: if the DVD disc image is NOT smaller than 4.36GB, you'll need to use something like DVD2oneX to compress the VIDEO_TS folder created by Toast down to 4.36GB).

To do the AVI-to-DVD Disc Image conversion using Toast 6.x:
Select the "Video" Tab. Open left "option" pane (if not already open) by clicking the button just left of "My DVD" in the main window. Select DVD option. Drop the AVI into Toast and then select "Save as Disc Image" from the "File" menu.

Perhaps this might help a bit...

[franbemadd]

Thanks for the info. I have my internal HD, with 32 GB free, which is where the converted items folder is, and I have a partitioned external, with 130 GB free on the partition where I save my movies. So, plenty of space.

What do you do exactly with the Disk Image created by Toast? Do you just drop it into Toast, and it will burn it just like a movie compressed by DVD2oneX?

Pluche, what do you mean exactly by “you have to use the video option for that conversion/burning. Toast 6 will do the conversion to DVD format and then burn; because of the 2 operations, it can take a while” ? Do you mean it can be done in one operation?
Frances

[pluche]

yes, Toast 6,.. can convert MOV files directly to a DVD format and burn in one operation;
I've done that with MOV (high quality) files up to 18 Gb so far
when you open Toast, on top you have 4 Tabs: Data, Audio,Video and Copy;
you have to select "Video" and then on the left side you get the advanced options and select: DVD Video, Pal or NTSC , high quality, and eventually "create DVD menu"
drag your MOV file into Toast and push the record button (don't forget the dvd-r disc)
now Toast 6 starts the conversion of your MOV file to DVD format and at the end burns it to the disc
a few more details: in the Toast preferences you must select a location on your HD for "converted" items, it is some kind of scratch disc; that should have enough room - at least similar to the MOV you are converting

[Ladd]

What do you do exactly with the Disk Image created by Toast? Do you just drop it into Toast, and it will burn it just like a movie compressed by DVD2oneX?

Yes, that's correct, if the DVD Disc Image produced by Toast is less than 4.36 GB. If it is more than 4.3 GB, than you run it through DVD2oneX to get it down to DVD-R size.

[franbemadd]

Not doing too well here. I opened Toast, selected Video, DVD-video, PAL, high quality, and from the file menu selected "Save as disk image". It took 8 hours, and saved it to a .toast on my desktop. It still wouldn't burn as it was 6.3 GB. Then opened DVD2oneX, and browzed for the file, but it was greyed out, so I couldn't select it. Trying to burn it as a DVD rom under the Data menu with Toast doesn't work either, as it's too big.
Ladd, how did you save it as a DVD disk image? I got a .toast disk image. Would exporting it as DV give a DVD disk image?
Frances

[live4ever]

How many minutes of video was the original .mov file?

[Ladd]

You saved ok, it was the next step that I could have explained more clearly.

Now that you have the DVD image file (the .toast file), open up Toast again, click the "copy" tab, select the "image file" radio button on the left "Options" window pane, then in the main window select "mount image".

Navigate to your .toast image file and mount it. Do a "get info" from the Finder on the mounted disc image to confirm that it exceeds 4.36 GB. If it does, you can run DVD2oneX on the mounted disc image to get your DVD-R sized VIDEO_TS file.

Sorry about not being more specific earlier!

[franbemadd]

Gottit!Thanks Ladd. It finally worked. DVD player kept popping up, and once that was out of the way, I could get at the mounted disk and run it through DVD2oneX.
Thanks again. Frances