Help i need somebody...

[cam-rat]

First of all, a great site!! It´s so much to read, so little time...

A problem!

I have captured my DV tapes to adobe premiere. Im soon finished with my first movie.. It´s gonna be aprox. 30min. So, it will be like 6-7 GB in size. What i´d like to do is; Shrink my finished avi file(6-7 GB) and convert it so it will fit to 1 DVD. How is that possible?

Thanks!

Miguel of sweden...

[andkiich]

The best option would have been to convert to MPEG2 at the proper bitrate so as to get the correct size to begin with to fit on the DVDR.

Other than that, you could go all the way through the authoring process with the full size project you have now, then use something like DVD Shrink to bring the size down.

You'll get a better quality encode by encoding properly from the start as opposed to transcoding it down.

[ZippyP.]

I have captured my DV tapes to adobe premiere. Im soon finished with my first movie.. It´s gonna be aprox. 30min. So, it will be like 6-7 GB in size.

I'm going to assume that your 7 GB - 30 min. file is still in DV-Avi format. You can easily convert 30 mins of video to fit on a DVD. You need to convert to Mpeg2 (as suggested), which would allow you to fit up to 2 hours in good quality. You need an mpeg2 plug-in for Premier to do that or use another encoder like TMPGEnc, Cinemacraft, Mainconcept etc.

PS-It's the running time of the clip that's important, not the size.

[GeorgeW]

it looks like your 30-min video (6-7gb) is probably a dv .avi (just guessing here).

You need to compress it to mpeg for dvd authoring. 30-minutes of video compressed for DVD-Video disc shouldn't cause any problems (once it has been converted to mpeg, you will see that you have plenty of room to spare).

I like Ulead's DVD MovieFactory 4.0 DC -- very user-friendly interface, and there's a 30-day trial that's pretty functional...