Is there a way to edit out source material when trimming clips?

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What I have now is 30 minutes of source video trimmed to 17 minutes in MM
(with a few jpegs and an an mp3 audio track), still creating a 3.9 GB DV-AVI
movie file. I know the resulting menu and sub-chapters in Sonic My DVD will
take up a few MBs, can I really only expect 20-something minutes on a
resulting DVD?

I know from the MM Help File that "Trimming does not remove the information
from the source material." I should think, though, that if I could somehow
actually remove what I'm cutting, this would cut the file size of the
resulting DV-AVI file.

Any expert input would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
HI Dave,...

MM only uses the parts of your 'source material' you choose. All other
source info is just left on your hard drive...so don't worry about total
length of original footage. Saving a movie file captures your timeline plus
audio and stills and and your DVD program will (as PAPAJohn says) encode the
AVI (or other file type) to mpg2 which shrinks the total file to be
caompatible with the dvd creation process. Generally,...my 1 hour videos are
about 12 to 13 gigabytes of data as avi and reduced to high 3 to low
4.something gigs after encoding to DVD format within my Roxio Easy Media
Creator program. A single layer DVD will hold 4.7 gigs...but double layer
writers are out and prices are coming down!

Good luck

RandyPC
 
Great explanation. Thank you. I tried it like you guys said and was able to
use a full 12GB of edited MM video for a DVD. Many thanks.
 
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