DVD Workshop end result file sizes

[Thwiipp]

Hello im just about at the finishing phase of autohoring a video. Im using DVDWS 1.3, when i go to make the iso, it tells me the size will 4.4GB, but the main video was only 2.2 GB, and the other 2 clips in there only equal about 90 MB, there are no motion menus, only 2 static menus with background music. If i use the make VIDEO_TS option it shows a smaller file size. I am not reencoding cause my file are already DVD compliant form Vegas Video 3. Anyone know whats up here? any help would be GREATLY appreciated, thanks

[rabiee140]

do you have the "do not convert dvd compliant files" checkbox marked? Might want to post on creative cow forums; they have a forum just for dvd workshop.

[Craig Tucker]

Workshop needs approximately twice the space for making an iso image. It has to create the DVD structure temporarily, then create an iso image from this structure. The temporary structure is then deleted.

So if you have a 4 GB Mpeg2 you need approx 8GB of space to create an iso image. Although the final iso will still only be 4GB