Finished iMovie too large for iDVD

After dumping 1/2 of my iMovie into the Trash so that the total length of all clips including trans, etc. was less than two hours, I shared it to iDVD, and found it to be 232.4 minutes long and 7.5 GB! The timeline at the bottom of iMovie still read the total minutes as close to 4 hours, even after I dumped 1/2 of the movie...how should I fix this?

Use the timeline at the bottom of the iMovie window to determine the total length of your movie before you import it into iDVD. You'll have to move clips out of the timeline until it says under 2 hours. (Remember to Save.) You do not have to trash those clips; they can remain in the clips pane without affecting iDVD.
You might want to read this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2597009&#2597009
In Karl Petersen's Workaround 3 he explains how to divide a project into smaller projects. It's a fix for projects that stutter, but I thought perhaps his instructions for dividing the project would be helpful, since your project is large enough to fill 2 DVDs.

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My iMovie is 1 hr. 17 min. long. After setting preferences to Best Quality, it says the movie is too long for iDVD. How do I cut the movie into 2 sections to put onto 2 DVD's?

STR,
This may not be a practical suggestion for you, but if you had access to a good quality S-VHS recorder (or HI8) , you could export your video to two discs, burning for maximum image quality straight from iMovie, and transferring that material onto a single S-VHS tape or HI8 tape ?
I find the maximum length of PAL video I can burn onto a 4.7GB disc for best quality is less that 58 minutes; above that duration, the quality deteriorates quite badly .
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The length in time is what's important for burning to DVD, not the input file size. With iDVD you can burn a video up to 2 hours in length on a single-layer DVD-r (but that capacity includes your DVD menus, titles, etc.)
Assuming your source is DV video, your original 30GB file is about 2 hrs 20 mins long. You will either need to shorten your video to less than 2 hours, or cut your video into two segments and burn it to 2 DVD-R's (one segment on each DVD-R).
Compressing the way you did by exporting to QT Conversion is only going to make your video look worse and doesn't solve the length issue - you still have a 2 hr 20 min video. After you fix the length of the movie, you should export to QT Movie, and UNcheck the option for "Make movie self-contained".

2 movies AVI (each 600MB) = too large for iDVD? 6+ GB? Whats going on?!?!

Bottom line, two avi files, I add to iDVD and it starts encoding but somehow makes it larger than it is.
I go into PROJECT and I see now its a whopping 6+GB!
Is there something better or is there a setting I am missing? I just want to make a DVD with the existing AVI files and don't want it at 6GB.
Am confused.
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There could be whole host of issues here. It could be as simple as trying a different blank disk (Verbatim is one of the "preferred" discs). I imagine however that the answer will be a bit more elusive. It all starts with your source material... which at this point we don't know what it's format is. Once you know that, I would do a Google search on converting that format to a DV file- this is what iDVD expects. Depending on how compressed the original file is, determines what kind of quality you will get when it's converted. Once you have the "proper" file for iDVD, you can try to burn another DVD and see how successful that is.
In general, compression is achieved by throwing away redundant frames. By converting and re-compressing, we are tossing out frames, inserting new frames and then tossing them back out again.... not the best scenario!
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I have a couple of videos that I need to put on my newly designed website (in IWeb) - but they are too large.
Can you be more specific as to why "they are too large?" Based on your estimated ranges of 20 MBs/7 min (on the order of 380 Kbps) to 250 MBs/20 min (about 1667 Kbps), as well as, the "Intro" clip on your site (about 240 Kbps), I personally would not try to compress the files any more than they already have been. In fact, I personally use a minimum of about 512 Kbps for QVGA content (1600-1700 Kbps for VGA) using H.264/AAC compression rather than your H.263/QDesign combination which has greater compatibility but less video quality. With regard to Flash content if you use YouTube as an example and consider their 100 MBs/10 min limitation you are talking about a 1333 Kbps total data rate and can judge their typical quality for yourself. (While I assume you conversion would have better quality I'm not sure how much you can decrease the total data rate.)
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Movie too large for iDvd

I created a movie in iMovie (very limited editing or rendering) and it's about 45 mins and 9.5 GBs. How do I import it into iDVD so that it will fit on a standard disc?
Thanks...

Well, if you have iLife '08, you should download iMovie HD 6:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html
And Patrick is right. iDVD will compress the iMovie project. 45 minutes and 9.5 gigs is about right. 60 minutes and 12 gigs is normal.

How to backup an iMovie project that is too large for the dvd?

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DVD's can only hold about 4.7 GB's of DV Stream format (the format used by iMovie).
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Time Machine Error This backup is too large for the backup disk

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Since having my MacBook Pro repaired (for a video problem) Time Capsule returns the following message: "This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 428.08 GB but only 192.14 GB are available."
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Since TC has my ONLY backup (going back about 4 years) I am reluctant to wipe it and start over fresh as I am afraid of losing files.
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The repair shop likely replaced a major circuit board on your MacBook Pro, so Time Machine thinks that you have a "new" computer and it wants to make a new complete backup of your Mac.
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http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/12.html
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Cannot decrypt RSA encrypted text : due to : input too large for RSA cipher

Hi,
I am in a fix trying to decrypt this RSA encrypted String ... plzz help
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Hi,
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Repeat after me: ciphertext CANNOT be safely represented as a String. Strings have internal structure - if you hand ciphertext to the new String(byte[]) constructor, it will eat your ciphertext and leave you with garbage. Said garbage will fail to decrypt in a variety of puzzling fashions.
If you want to transmit ciphertext as a String, you need to use something like Base64 to encode the raw bytes. Then, on the receiving side, you must Base64-DEcode back into bytes, and then decrypt the resulting byte[].
Second - using RSA as a general-purpose cipher is a bad idea. Don't do that. It's slow (on the order of 100x slower than the slowest symmetric cipher). It has a HUGE block size (governed by the keysize). And it's subject to attack if used as a stream-cipher (IIRC - I can no longer find the reference for that, so take it with a grain of salt...) Standard practice is to use RSA only to encrypt a generated key for some symmetric algorithm (like, say, AES), and use that key as a session-key.
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843217 wrote:
Note that widths are reported in characters if character length
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The data in the column is a fixed length string of 8 characters.
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So the maximal string length for this column is 8 characters. To reduce the column width back to its original 8, we then run:
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Use SQL Reference for datatype specification, length function, etc.
For more info, reference {forum:id=50} forum on the topic. And of course, the Globalization support guide.

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