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Hi,
I'm trying to troubleshoot for my frustrated wife. New computer... HP 3GHz
250 Gig Intel... bells/whistles... MM2.1 Sonic myDVD+. First try at creating
movie and transferring to DVD. She makes a 1h30m movie, w/music background,
dissolves, the works. Has PapaJohn's excellent instructions about editing in
MM and burning in Sonic. Mistakenly saves as .wmv (chooses the high quality
video NTSC format.)Boils the flick down to about 2.5 Gigs. Imports into
Sonic which says it'd be 6+ gigs too big for a 4.7 G DVD.
Fine. I step in. Read everything I can find... determine we should save as
DV-AVI from MM. MM estimates the file will end up being 18G on save. I'm
thinking... is there any way if we do that that Sonic can save it down far
enough to fit on a DVD?
That's the first question. Would it? Seems if the compression for a .wmv
can get the file down to 2.5 G then taking the other route from Project to
DV-AVI to Sonic compressing as MPEG would fit on a DVD. But I don't know.
Thoughts?
Second --worse-- probem: We can't save as DV-AVI to even test the thing
above. Every time I try MM crashes and gives the dreaded "Send error report
to MSFT" windoid. So I can't even test the issue detailed above.
So is this file just too big to save? I read PapaJohn's info but despite
the detail I couldn't figure out an action plan to help my wife. Does she
have to break it into, say 2 or 3 chunks and span 2 or 3 different DVD's?
Related question: How silly can that be? I mean, I get a DVD from Netflix
and it will have 2 to 3 hours of content on it. Why isn't there an easy way
to take our 1.5 hr movie and just put it on a DVD?
Lastly... for the NEXT opus... should we have captured it in a different way
to reduce file size? WE captured on Sonic as DVD quality. Is it the fact
that she's layered in mp3 audio here and there? Is it the number of
transitions/dissolves she included? Is it the still photos? Or is it simply
the length of the project in toto that's hogging space?
Or is our MM2.1 program just SNAFU and we should trash it and buy a
different movie program?
Thank you in advance for your patience and for your help.
Anthony Moor
I'm trying to troubleshoot for my frustrated wife. New computer... HP 3GHz
250 Gig Intel... bells/whistles... MM2.1 Sonic myDVD+. First try at creating
movie and transferring to DVD. She makes a 1h30m movie, w/music background,
dissolves, the works. Has PapaJohn's excellent instructions about editing in
MM and burning in Sonic. Mistakenly saves as .wmv (chooses the high quality
video NTSC format.)Boils the flick down to about 2.5 Gigs. Imports into
Sonic which says it'd be 6+ gigs too big for a 4.7 G DVD.
Fine. I step in. Read everything I can find... determine we should save as
DV-AVI from MM. MM estimates the file will end up being 18G on save. I'm
thinking... is there any way if we do that that Sonic can save it down far
enough to fit on a DVD?
That's the first question. Would it? Seems if the compression for a .wmv
can get the file down to 2.5 G then taking the other route from Project to
DV-AVI to Sonic compressing as MPEG would fit on a DVD. But I don't know.
Thoughts?
Second --worse-- probem: We can't save as DV-AVI to even test the thing
above. Every time I try MM crashes and gives the dreaded "Send error report
to MSFT" windoid. So I can't even test the issue detailed above.
So is this file just too big to save? I read PapaJohn's info but despite
the detail I couldn't figure out an action plan to help my wife. Does she
have to break it into, say 2 or 3 chunks and span 2 or 3 different DVD's?
Related question: How silly can that be? I mean, I get a DVD from Netflix
and it will have 2 to 3 hours of content on it. Why isn't there an easy way
to take our 1.5 hr movie and just put it on a DVD?
Lastly... for the NEXT opus... should we have captured it in a different way
to reduce file size? WE captured on Sonic as DVD quality. Is it the fact
that she's layered in mp3 audio here and there? Is it the number of
transitions/dissolves she included? Is it the still photos? Or is it simply
the length of the project in toto that's hogging space?
Or is our MM2.1 program just SNAFU and we should trash it and buy a
different movie program?
Thank you in advance for your patience and for your help.
Anthony Moor