Burning a Video that is too large

[Guest]

I am trying to take a Digital Camcorder and produce a Lip Sync DVD for the parent of our kids. I have no problem getting the vdeio into Movie Maker and producing the film with chapter points and intro screens for each act. I then open the produced movie in MY DVD Deluxe Version 5.2 Its a pain, but I then resestablsih the chapter points and use their feature to crete a menu of the acts

The problem is that the resulting video is too large to burn as it is 1 hr and 30 mins. The material has 600 MB of extra vidieo. So I save the project as a DVD file on my hard drive. I then open the file with DVD Shrink 3.1 and create the DVD to fit on a standard 4.7 GB disk. This worked great for the first show. Everytine I do this for the second show, the audio trails the videio by a couple of seconds. What is the best way to optimize MM video to burn on a DVD if its a little too big? What could I be doing wrong

I have 50 parents who want their DVD and school is coming to an end. Help!

 

[John Kelly]

Hello there,

Have you considered simply copying the first dvd and use that to create all
the other dvd's

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obtained by publishing in any format other peoples work

 

[Harry]

Hi there,

My workaround for a similar problem (using ShowBiz v2)
was to change the "DVD Quality" setting from "7
Mbits/sec" to "5 Mbits/sec" (the choices were 3/4/5/6/7)
and it seemed to come out OK -- so maybe check your "MY
DVD" options for a similar setting.

Good luck -- cranking out 50 of those puppies.

Harry

-----Original Message-----
I am trying to take a Digital Camcorder and produce a

Lip Sync DVD for the parent of our kids. I have no
problem getting the vdeio into Movie Maker and producing
the film with chapter points and intro screens for each
act. I then open the produced movie in MY DVD Deluxe
Version 5.2 Its a pain, but I then resestablsih the
chapter points and use their feature to crete a menu of
the acts.

The problem is that the resulting video is too large to

burn as it is 1 hr and 30 mins. The material has 600 MB
of extra vidieo. So I save the project as a DVD file on
my hard drive. I then open the file with DVD Shrink 3.1
and create the DVD to fit on a standard 4.7 GB disk.
This worked great for the first show. Everytine I do
this for the second show, the audio trails the videio by
a couple of seconds. What is the best way to optimize
MM video to burn on a DVD if its a little too big? What
could I be doing wrong?

 

[Bob [MVP]]

Video Dad,

I'm a bit confused by your terminology. When you say
the first show worked great, do you mean you were able
to burn a DVD, and that DVD plays great?

I don't understand why subsequent copies would have
sync problems if the first copy is okay. But if that's
the case, John Kelly's suggestion to make copies of
the first DVD is a good one to try.

If you don't have software that's capable of duplicating
a DVD, you might want to give DVD Decrypter a try.

Step 1: Rip your good DVD to an ISO image on your
hard drive.

Step 2: Burn the ISO image from your hard drive to
another DVD. If the copy plays fine, repeat
another 48 times.

--
-Bob
____________________________
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Media Center Edition
www.microsoft.com/ehome

I am trying to take a Digital Camcorder and produce a Lip Sync DVD for the parent of our kids. I have no problem getting the

vdeio into Movie Maker and producing the film with chapter points and intro screens for each act. I then open the produced movie in
MY DVD Deluxe Version 5.2 Its a pain, but I then resestablsih the chapter points and use their feature to crete a menu of the acts.

The problem is that the resulting video is too large to burn as it is 1 hr and 30 mins. The material has 600 MB of extra vidieo.

So I save the project as a DVD file on my hard drive. I then open the file with DVD Shrink 3.1 and create the DVD to fit on a
standard 4.7 GB disk. This worked great for the first show. Everytine I do this for the second show, the audio trails the videio
by a couple of seconds. What is the best way to optimize MM video to burn on a DVD if its a little too big? What could I be doing
wrong?

 

[print_maker]

If the video is out of sync coming out of movie maker as one huge long
movie, try saving it out as a few smaller movies. Then bring the smaller
movies into the DVD burning app and put them in order.

You might also defrag your hard drive if you have not in a while. (always a
good thing to do - kind of like crossing your fingers I suppose, it can
never hurt)

I am trying to take a Digital Camcorder and produce a Lip Sync DVD for the

parent of our kids. I have no problem getting the vdeio into Movie Maker
and producing the film with chapter points and intro screens for each act.
I then open the produced movie in MY DVD Deluxe Version 5.2 Its a pain, but
I then resestablsih the chapter points and use their feature to crete a menu
of the acts.

The problem is that the resulting video is too large to burn as it is 1 hr

and 30 mins. The material has 600 MB of extra vidieo. So I save the
project as a DVD file on my hard drive. I then open the file with DVD
Shrink 3.1 and create the DVD to fit on a standard 4.7 GB disk. This worked
great for the first show. Everytine I do this for the second show, the
audio trails the videio by a couple of seconds. What is the best way to
optimize MM video to burn on a DVD if its a little too big? What could I
be doing wrong?

I have 50 parents who want their DVD and school is coming to an end.

Help!