Saving movie w/ movie maker file too big

[Guest]

I burned my home movies onto a dvd, then converted it to AVI on to my
computer to import into movie maker. Now that I'm ready to save my movie on
to my computer (AVI-DVD) to then burn to a dvd the file size is about
40,000mb (it about 2 hours long) is it supposed to be this big or is their
something I can do to compress it before saving? I only have 22Gb available
on my hard drive and it says thats not enought to save.
Thanks

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Your third party DVD burning software will probably compress the file to
make it fit on the DVD. It's not the size of the file that counts, it's the
length and normally (in SP mode) about 90 minutes fits on a DVD, but third
party software can make LP and EP modes.

 

[Guest]

Thank You...buut right now my problem is having to first save it to my
computer before I can burn it. Movie Maker says I do not have enough space
to save it.
so can i compress it before saving it to my computer?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Uh, oh, you appear to be out of hard drive space. Run a Disk Cleanup to see
how much you can free up..... a two hour movie in DV-AVI should be about
24gb (it's roughly 12gb per hour).... you may just be able to squeeze it on,
but the real solution here is a second (or third) new hard drive.

 

[Guest]

thanks

Uh, oh, you appear to be out of hard drive space. Run a Disk Cleanup to see
how much you can free up..... a two hour movie in DV-AVI should be about
24gb (it's roughly 12gb per hour).... you may just be able to squeeze it on,
but the real solution here is a second (or third) new hard drive.