Project exceeds the capacity error in Encore

[shh1cd]

I made a dvd and when I checked the file size, it was 4.6 gb.
Then, as soon as I imported it to Adobe Encore to create a dvd,
it says that "4.86 gb is used." How does this thing happen?
That means I cannot build it after an hours' of work?
Could any body gives me some clue?

[aedipuss]

most likely you are using GB and encore gb. not the same thing. shoot for 4.365GB or less. you really don't want to use the last couple hundred MB of a dvdr anyway, too many errors out on the rim, so more like 4.2GB is reasonable.

[jagabo]

To a disc manufacturer GB = 1000 * 1000 * 1000 bytes, ie 1,000,000,000 bytes. To most software a GB (more formally called a GiB) is 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes. So a 4.7 GB (as reported by the disc manufacturer) disc holds about 4.3 GB (as reported by most software) of data.

[shh1cd]

Aha...that is what it is. Thank you so much.

[RabidDog]

just create yout dvd image (as an iso, 4.6gb) then use dvdshrink (shrink to std dvd) to shave off the extra ugly pounds of (fat) size. Quick simple and worth knowing for the future.