Room for DVD

[chips034]

I like to know how much room do i need to leave on a 4.7 dvd when making one...I have 2 small movies with a total of around 4.1GB and making it with DVDit it says the project size is 6.4 GB! So just looking for a little info so i can get the right size before i encode it...thanks

[Bel]

The problem with DVDit (if I remember correctly) is that it doesn't support compressed sound (.mp2 audio), thereby making the audio portion of the movie much much larger. Most other dvd authoring programs do support compressed sound, so if you get one of those you'd probably have no troubles burning your files as is (assuming they're compliant).

My personal experience with dvdit is it will probably crash half way through the authoring process anyways, but you may have better luch then I ever did. The only way to predict the project size would be if you prepared you mpeg before hand using uncompressed PCM (WAV) sound. On a side note related to this .mp2 sound is not within the NTSC dvd spec, so there are a few dvd players out there that will not play .mp2 sound. But most of them do. If you are in PAL land, I believe .mp2 is a part of the spec and therefore all PAL dvd's should play it.

[chips034]

Thanks,I'll try ulead dvd movie factory..