Can't save to DV-AVI..... continued

[Guest]

I'm having similar situations from other user postings that I can't save to
AVI format. I a have 37 minute project which will equate to 8.7 GB AVI file.
I've got two questions. First, if I do succeed in creating this AVI file,
will it not burn to a DVD+R because of the gigantic file size which the DVD
media only burn 4.7 GB? Second, I created a copy of the project and trimmed
it down to a 4.5 minute video (890 MB). I did this to test a theory. I have
..jpeg and .wma with lots of transitions and it created the AVI file without a
glitch. Which leads me to believe that the project file size has something
to do with it and not the audio or photo types as suggested in other
postings. I do have 10.7 GB of free HDD space to create a 8.7 GB avi file.
Do you think I should have more space for a buffer size? My paging file is
set at 768 - 1568 MB, should I increase this? To what size?

 

[Guest]

Ok. I got the answer to the first one. When I begin authoring to DVD, it
will compress the AVI to MPEG2.

For second question on why MM2 won't create the AVI file, my hardware is
capable. I have an AMD 2800+, 512MB and HDD is formated as NTFS

 

[Graham Hughes]

You need as much as twice the size of the movie or more to save as a dv-avi
as it needs to render any transitions/stills etc to temp files to enable it
to make the finished product.