Burning WMM movie to a disc

[*Sarasen*]

I have recently made an extremely LONG project in WMM, the movie consists of
about 6 possibly 7 hours of video files (in AVI format), some opening and
closing credits, some photos and some music.

As yet, I have not finalised the project into a Movie (as I know it will
take a very long time to do) but once it finally is a movie, I would like to
be able to burn the movie to disc without having to fit it on several discs
(if that is at all possible!?). Or should I save it to my computer first as
opposed to saving it straight to disc?

I know definitely 7 hours of video in AVI format would easily take up more
than 1 disc, but I just don't want to have about 4 discs of 1 movie (as the
video footage is of a 4 day event, so don't really don't want it spread over
more than 3 discs). Is there an option in WMM to finalise the movie to
another format (like MPEG-2 to use less disks) without losing too much of the
video quality?

Or any other suggestions to compressing the Movie so that it would fit on 1
or 2 discs?

Thanks in advance!

 

[LVTravel]

The amount of time you can get on an individual DVD is limited by the
program you are using to burn the DVD, whether you have a single or dual
layer DVD burner and how much compression the burning program can
accomplish. While I can place 7 hours on a dual layer DVD, the output
quality isn't very good, especially on a big screen TV when played later.

When you create the movie (not knowing which version of WMM you are using)
most of them won't burn to a DVD. Those versions that will burn, I am not
familiar with the add-in program that it calls to burn and it's options (a
stripped Sonic version IIRC.) I recommend creating a DV-AVI output as one
file initially. I can be split later if needed to put it on more than one
DVD.

Using either Roxio or Nero DVD burner (there are others) to start the DVD
burning process and use different compressions to see how many disks the
burning program says it will take with the burner you have.

Hope this all makes sense and post back with any further questions.