Raring a 6 GB video for DVD burning

[DVinci]

I'm using WinRAR 3.2 and want to rar and split a DV file so I can burn it to two DVDs. It's 5.95 GB. In the wizard to create an archive, what do I put in when it's asks for the size of a single part (in bytes)? 4 700 000 000? Or smaller?

[unclebud]

Smaller or roughly half would be best unless your going to add other files to the DVD's.

[thor300]

But you dont need to RAR it. DV can be splitted without loss and rejoined again with for ex virtualdub.
Or even better, dont rejoin them! Personally i much prefer to have a lot of small DV files instead of 1 extremely big.

[dcsos]

Somewhere inside the RAR program the code is legacy and won't support files over 4GIG(3.99)

[HillJack]

Somewhere inside the RAR program the code is legacy and won't support files over 4GIG(3.99)

Actually, from the WinRAR 3.42 help: "The size of a RAR archive, as well as the size of any single file within a RAR archive, is limited to 8,589,934,591 GB (9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes). Note that to create archives larger than 4 GB, you need to use NTFS, as older file systems do not support such large files."

As for how to split them, I wouldn't use a single 4.7GB rar; if your overall file is 5.7GB and you want it spanned across 2 DVD's, *I* would split the file into 50MB chunks and create PAR2 files for them to equal 2 DVD's of space, then split all that up - PAR2 files so you can recover any damaged files should your DVD's degrade over time. You can create PAR2 files using QuickPar.

If WinRAR is asking you for BYTES, then convert to 50MB (or whatever) by dividing by 1024 repeatedly.

[dcsos]

rar works better like he said(in small chunks..works many times faster). I'm obviously using an earlier version !! see above

[NTSC]

rar works better like he said(in small chunks..works many times faster). I'm obviously using an earlier version !! see above

DVDFab is an easy solution to taking a dvd9 and putting it on 2 dvds.
Or VOB files and split to 2 dvds.

[thor300]

Thats good NTSC but his file is DV, not DVD.

No matter what i wouldnt waste time unraring it the day i needed the file(s) again. Cut with virtualdub is the easiest, then you can edit/encode the file(s) straight from the DVD, dont even need to copy it back to the harddisk.

[DVinci]

I thought about splitting the file into two avi's, but I already edited it in Premiere (months ago). If I split it, I don't know how to import those two and keep the cuts, transitions, etc, I used on the original. (I made a note to myself to keep DV files at a maximum of ~4480 mb in the future )

As for QuickPar, it looks a little to advanced for me. The interface scares me! I'll use WinRAR for now. Also, I didn't know raring smaller chunks is better. I'll try and split the file into parts of 100mb tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks all!

[thor300]

You can join the AVI files again with lots of programs. Depends on what you will do with the files later, I myself would most likely use AviSynth and frameserve to whatever app i wanted to encode with, or just join them after encoding in a dvd authoring app.
In avisynth you would do this:
AviSource("file_1.avi", "file_2.avi")
In virtualdub, load the first file, then click File - Append Avi Segment to add the next, then Video - Direct stream copy and then Save as AVI. No loss of quality. But winRAR is also loss less ofcourse