Capturing video to burn to DVD

[kyle.wylie]

Hi. I'm hoping someone out there can help me. I'm sorry if this is
straight forward question but I'm not really sure what I should be
searching for.

I'm capturing video from my Panasonic DV camera and I want to burn it
to DVD. Now anywhere I look I'm told that to burn to DVD I need to
capture in DVD-AVI format. The problem occurs with the space required.
The video is roughly 70mins long and I have no problem saving to the
computer as it's only goin to be tempory. The problem is burning to
DVD, The end result is going to be around 13GB and I cannot see this
fitting on a DVD.

Is this compressed when it is burned or is the 13 gig file I see the
final "DVD size"? I know I have the option to capture video using a
different format but I would really like to keep the quality I'm
getting with the avi format. Is there anything I can do to keeep this
quality but get the whole lot fit onto one dvd?

 

[Wojo]

Hi. I'm hoping someone out there can help me. I'm sorry if this is
straight forward question but I'm not really sure what I should be
searching for.

I'm capturing video from my Panasonic DV camera and I want to burn it
to DVD. Now anywhere I look I'm told that to burn to DVD I need to
capture in DVD-AVI format. The problem occurs with the space required.
The video is roughly 70mins long and I have no problem saving to the
computer as it's only goin to be tempory. The problem is burning to
DVD, The end result is going to be around 13GB and I cannot see this
fitting on a DVD.

Is this compressed when it is burned or is the 13 gig file I see the
final "DVD size"? I know I have the option to capture video using a
different format but I would really like to keep the quality I'm
getting with the avi format. Is there anything I can do to keeep this
quality but get the whole lot fit onto one dvd?

Don't concern yourself with the filesize so much as the movie length.
The movie, as you guessed, is compressed to MPEG2 and converted to a VOB
file by your DVD Authoring program. Basically in the highest quality mode a
DVD will hold approximately one hour of video. Yours isn't much more than
that so depending on what software you use you will not have to change the
quality settings much to fit 70 minutes on a disk so your quality will still
be fine.
As far as the size on your hard drive remember that you need twice as much
free HD space as the size of the file for rendering purposes.
-Wojo

 

[Guest]

Yep, I created a movie last night that was 1hr 5 mins in length. After
saving back to the computer and taking over to Sonic it said the file size
was 4.8GB, 0.1 GB more than a DVD can handle (aaarrrrrggghhh). I then went
back to MM and cut the length back to just under one hour and got the files
size down to 4.5GB. I then encountered the problems which I've detailed in a
separate post. Please help!!
Thanks