Problem with Ulead inaccurately predicting project size

[steppenwolf_27]

I have Ulead Movie Factory 3.5, and when I go to burn a DVD on LP mode (where you're supposed to get 180 minutes on a regular DVD), the software seems to think that the project is going to require more space on the DVD than it actually does. When the software says the disc will be full and I do the burn, it ends up using only about half of the disc and examining the disc's properties reveals that the disc only has about 1.7 GB of information on it, rather than the 4.6 that Ulead was certain would happen. I tried just adding more media than Ulead thought the DVD could handle, but I knew would be fine, but the program won't start the burn when I try that. So, does anyone know how to fix this so that I can fill up the whole DVD?

Thanks

[Jayhawk]

I have version 3.0 (upgraded with major pathches last November) so this may not help. I did have the problem of improper size estimates before the patches were applied so you might want to explore that first.

Since my captures are already mpeg2 compliant, I always tell Movie Factory NOT to recode compliant mpegs. Perhaps Movie Factory is estimating the "re-coded size". Just a thought.

One workaround (which you shouldn't have to do but might give you more information) is to output an ISO or TS-Folder instead of directly burning a disc. Movie Factory will output a file larger than 4.6 but not directly to disc. You can output an ISO and burn it with Dvd DeCrypter or a TS-Folder and input it to DVD Shrink which will call DeCrypter to burn the created ISO.

Sorry I can't offer more but like I said, I had the same problem but the patches fixed it.

[steppenwolf_27]

Thanks for the suggestions! I downloaded the patch, but it still seems to be having the same problem. The "do not convert" box seems like it might work, though. Are AVI files mpeg 2 compliant?

[Jayhawk]

Nope, AVI's are totally different from Mpeg2.