Ulead Project Size Size

[thecoalman]

Didn't I read somewhere that no VOB file can be greater than 1GB in size?

That's possible, actually I thought I remembered reading that myself somewhere after I wrote that above. I don't pay attention to the technicalities like that... :P

The size of the entire folder is 4,293,165,056 Bytes (3.99GB)

From my understanding the second number is the actual size of the file(s), the first is how much space it's taking up. There fore I still think you're hitting the 4GB limit somewhere. Possibly VS writes to one temp file.. I really have no idea. If not it's a pretty big coincidence.

[Nelson37]

Three different bitrates with the same size file, Something is wrong. If the bitrate is locked in and not glaringly obvious that this is so, that would be what I call a Setting with an obscure access menu. Changing the bitrate is a fundamental function, if this is complicated then I call that poor program design.

I have used three different versions of Video studio. Relults were as I indicated. Only reason I keep the prog is that it will open some oddball files that nothing else will.

Prog will under various conditions encode output exactly same as input and ignore attempts at changing this.

I found the options limited, the quality poor, and the behavior if not erratic at least not simple to determine the reasons why. It rejects some files that no other prog has problems with.

Vob files were created to defeat the 4 gig size limitation, however vobs themselves are not limited specifically to a one gig size.

If it is using temp files and not making this clear, again I call that poor program design. What the user is trying to do is fairly simple, the program is making it more difficult.

[jmsrickland]

That would be nice but I can't use Tmpgenc. I dont has a processor that supports SSE, whatever that is.

[jmsrickland]

That trial version of Tmpgenc won't work. It can't:

load project files
Save project files
Custom menu templates cannot be loaded nor saved
Watermarks appears on each page of the DVD menus

And you have to have Internet Connection to use it. The PC I do video editing on is not connected to the Internet.

So what good is it?

If any trial version of any product does not give you the exact same functionality as the bought version then I don't want to even start with it. How can you evalulate a striped-down version?

[jmsrickland]

thecoalman,

You were absolutely correct. After I re-formatted my hard drive and used NTFS instead of FAT32 I re-did the Video Studio and this time the DVD video file was complete. So it was a file limitation size problem and the system did the truncating.

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Video Studio still told me that I had exceeded the project size so I selected "No, continue" and the end results was a full movie on the hard drive.

Now what puzzles me is why Video Studio is telling me that my project size is too big. The total size of the video files is 4.26GB or 4,580,933,632 bytes, so correct me if I am wrong but wouldn't that fit on a single layer DVD disk? Besides, even if it is too big for a SL disk why wouldn't Video Studio make some assumption that I would burn it to a DL disk?

[thecoalman]

thecoalman,Now what puzzles me is why Video Studio is telling me that my project size is too big. The total size of the video files is 4.26GB or 4,580,933,632 bytes, so correct me if I am wrong but wouldn't that fit on a single layer DVD disk?

Actually you can't, something to do with how the disc manuafacturers calculate the disc size.... you can only get about 4.3. If you select yes instead of no it should adjust the bitrate for you so it fits on the disc.

Besides, even if it is too big for a SL disk why wouldn't Video Studio make some assumption that I would burn it to a DL disk?

AFAIK it's DL compatible.... I know there was even a patch for 8 or 9 when DL initailly became avaialvble so that VS was comaptible with DL.

[jmsrickland]

thecoalman,Now what puzzles me is why Video Studio is telling me that my project size is too big. The total size of the video files is 4.26GB or 4,580,933,632 bytes, so correct me if I am wrong but wouldn't that fit on a single layer DVD disk?

Actually you can't, something to do with how the disc manuafacturers calculate the disc size.... you can only get about 4.3. If you select yes instead of no it should adjust the bitrate for you so it fits on the disc.

Besides, even if it is too big for a SL disk why wouldn't Video Studio make some assumption that I would burn it to a DL disk?

AFAIK it's DL compatible.... I know there was even a patch for 8 or 9 when DL initailly became avaialvble so that VS was comaptible with DL.

I took the output of the Video Studio project, the same one that I was refering to above, and like I said it is the size I stated and I was able to burn it to a single layer DVD disc. When I put the movie in my standalone DVD player it played from begining to end and it was 100% complete and it even appeared to be a slight bit better that the one I copied it from, not much better but a bit - actually I thought the sound quality was better - the original had a slight humming or buzzing sound all through the movie and I didn't notice it so much on the one from VS.

If you can only get about 4.3 why then does it say on the disc 4.7GB? Anyway, I was able to burn that file.

Oh, and here is another thing. Just out of curiosity I loaded the file into DVD Shrink because I knew it would tell me if it had to 'shrink' it so to say but DVD Shrink reported back the the movie was 100% OK and no compression took place.

I went to Ulead to look for updates and all they had were some for earlier versions.