I'm having similar situations from other user postings that I can't save to
AVI format. I a have 37 minute project which will equate to 8.7 GB AVI file.
I've got two questions. First, if I do succeed in creating this AVI file,
will it not burn to a DVD+R because of the gigantic file size which the DVD
media only burn 4.7 GB? Second, I created a copy of the project and trimmed
it down to a 4.5 minute video (890 MB). I did this to test a theory. I have
..jpeg and .wma with lots of transitions and it created the AVI file without a
glitch. Which leads me to believe that the project file size has something
to do with it and not the audio or photo types as suggested in other
postings. I do have 10.7 GB of free HDD space to create a 8.7 GB avi file.
Do you think I should have more space for a buffer size? My paging file is
set at 768 - 1568 MB, should I increase this? To what size?

Ok. I got the answer to the first one. When I begin authoring to DVD, it
will compress the AVI to MPEG2.

For second question on why MM2 won't create the AVI file, my hardware is
capable. I have an AMD 2800+, 512MB and HDD is formated as NTFS

"AVI Frustrated" wrote:

> I'm having similar situations from other user postings that I can't save to
> AVI format. I a have 37 minute project which will equate to 8.7 GB AVI file.
> I've got two questions. First, if I do succeed in creating this AVI file,
> will it not burn to a DVD+R because of the gigantic file size which the DVD
> media only burn 4.7 GB? Second, I created a copy of the project and trimmed
> it down to a 4.5 minute video (890 MB). I did this to test a theory. I have
> .jpeg and .wma with lots of transitions and it created the AVI file without a
> glitch. Which leads me to believe that the project file size has something
> to do with it and not the audio or photo types as suggested in other
> postings. I do have 10.7 GB of free HDD space to create a 8.7 GB avi file.
> Do you think I should have more space for a buffer size? My paging file is
> set at 768 - 1568 MB, should I increase this? To what size?

You need as much as twice the size of the movie or more to save as a dv-avi
as it needs to render any transitions/stills etc to temp files to enable it
to make the finished product.

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com
"AVI Frustrated" <AVI (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Ok. I got the answer to the first one. When I begin authoring to DVD, it
> will compress the AVI to MPEG2.
>
> For second question on why MM2 won't create the AVI file, my hardware is
> capable. I have an AMD 2800+, 512MB and HDD is formated as NTFS
>
> "AVI Frustrated" wrote:
>
> > I'm having similar situations from other user postings that I can't save
to
> > AVI format. I a have 37 minute project which will equate to 8.7 GB AVI
file.
> > I've got two questions. First, if I do succeed in creating this AVI
file,
> > will it not burn to a DVD+R because of the gigantic file size which the
DVD
> > media only burn 4.7 GB? Second, I created a copy of the project and
trimmed
> > it down to a 4.5 minute video (890 MB). I did this to test a theory. I
have
> > .jpeg and .wma with lots of transitions and it created the AVI file
without a
> > glitch. Which leads me to believe that the project file size has
something
> > to do with it and not the audio or photo types as suggested in other
> > postings. I do have 10.7 GB of free HDD space to create a 8.7 GB avi
file.
> > Do you think I should have more space for a buffer size? My paging file
is
> > set at 768 - 1568 MB, should I increase this? To what size?