dv-avi movie too large to fit on DVD?

[Sheryl B]

I have finally finished making my first MM2 movie.
Burned to DVD with Sonic & it is very low quality video
when played on DVD player (choppy, fuzzy, etc.) Source
video is clear when viewed straight from camcorder to TV.
I read this site & Papa John's site & decided to save
movie as dv-avi since info seems to suggest that will
improve quality on the DVD. I have just finished saving
as dv-avi & now the 37 minute movie won't fit on the
4.7GB DVD+R. Message says I need to "remove 3300GB from
project". Posting this is last resort since I have been
struggling with this for weeks! Can anyone help?

 

[Graham Hughes, MVP Digital Media]

DVD making is not as easy as most people think. It has so many variables
that it really is a minefield.
The dv-avi file at 37 mins should quite easily fit on one dvd, the general
compression used to reduce this would mean a movie of up to one hour will
fit on at the best quality you can get. Sonic should compress your movie to
fit on, it may be you are not following the correct route for authoring.

Graham

 

[Sheryl B.]

Thanks so much for reading this. I am not exactly a
computer wiz though & I don't understand your last line
about the route for authoring. I just clicked away in
the Sonic program, following the prompt. It seems easy.
Was there something else I should have done?

Sheryl B.

 

[Guest]

Perhaps you're trying to put the DV-AVI file directly on the DVD. Such files are huge and might not fit. If I'm not mistaken, video on a DVD has been compressed into the MPEG-2 format. It seems as if this last step is what you are lacking. 37 min of MPEG-2-compressed video should fit on a DVD. I would go back and check out the help files for your Sonic software. It could be that that software simply copies the file and doesn't do any conversion. Don't quote me on this, though--I'm new to the whole process myself.

 

[Dr Evil]

I agree with Glen, you should have plenty of room. Can
you not use MM2 to create the DVD rather than Sonic? It's
definitely a compression issue.

-----Original Message-----
Perhaps you're trying to put the DV-AVI file directly on

the DVD. Such files are huge and might not fit. If I'm not
mistaken, video on a DVD has been compressed into the MPEG-
2 format. It seems as if this last step is what you are
lacking. 37 min of MPEG-2-compressed video should fit on a
DVD. I would go back and check out the help files for your
Sonic software. It could be that that software simply
copies the file and doesn't do any conversion. Don't quote
me on this, though--I'm new to the whole process myself.

 

[Graham Hughes, MVP Digital Media]

You cannot use MM2 to make the dvd as it doesn't do it!!
The route for authoring was as picked up in the last but one post, the way
in which sonic is told to do the job, it should compress the file to a mpeg2
file type which will fit on the disc, so somewhere along the lines you
haven't completed the instructions properly