8mm to DVD

[Guest]

I made a movie using imported 8mm home movie footage and adding music. It says
I don't have enough HD space (14g free) to save it as DV-AVI. The movie is 2
hours
long. I can save it to an external HD, how is it then supposed to fit on a
DVD? MMM says the movie is 28560 MB. Can I use a program like DVDDecrypt to
compress it?
or possibly use a different format. Thanks, first time movie maker.

 

[John Inzer]

I made a movie using imported 8mm home movie footage and adding
music. It says I don't have enough HD space (14g free) to save it as
DV-AVI. The movie is 2 hours
long. I can save it to an external HD, how is it then supposed to
fit on a DVD? MMM says the movie is 28560 MB. Can I use a program
like DVDDecrypt to compress it?
or possibly use a different format. Thanks, first time movie
maker.

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If you can save it on the external hard drive...
give it a try. Your authoring software should
burn the DVD based on the length of the
movie not the file size.

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[John Inzer]

BTW, your authoring software may offer you
an option of fitting the two hour movie on a
single layer DVD...otherwise you will need
to split it half and burn in on two DVDs or
possibly use a dual layer DVD if you have
that type of burner.

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******John Inzer********
**MS Picture It! MVP**

*****Digital Image******
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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........I am a volunteer.......

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you.

Proceed at your own risk.

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*******Consider********
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[Walter]

I made a movie using imported 8mm home movie footage and adding music. It says
I don't have enough HD space (14g free) to save it as DV-AVI. The movie is 2
hours
long. I can save it to an external HD, how is it then supposed to fit on a
DVD? MMM says the movie is 28560 MB. Can I use a program like DVDDecrypt to
compress it?
or possibly use a different format. Thanks, first time movie maker.

A bit off topic ... but how did you transfer/import 8mm home movie
footage? I have a bunch of them that I haven't been able to figure out
how to transfer.

 

[Mike]

I recently had a Wedding Video I created that was about 30 minutes long.
When I save it to a DV-AVI file it was amost 8gig. I used Nero7 to create a
DVD and the files were about 2gig.

In regard to the question about transferring 8mm home movie footage I used a
company called Home Movie Depot. Go to www.homemoviedepot.com for pricing
and details.