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.

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Movie file too large for iDVD

I have a 13GB .mov file created using FCE Exported w/QT Conversion (prior it was a 30GB file) but it's still too large to place on DVD using iDVD. Is there a way to (1) Shrink my file size to be compatible with iDVD or (2) re-set iDVD to accept larger file sizes (I don't use dual layer discs)? If the answer to both of those is no, is there a specific DVD conversion software that is more versatile than iDVD? Thanks

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.
Thanks

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!
To troubleshoot further... the DVD itself, via Apple's DVD player plays successful on you Mac but not on a tabletop DVD player? If so, have you played ANY home burned DVD movie on the table top player?
Mike

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I finished a project that is 2hrs:19:00 min and when I export to QT file( not self contained) and try to burn with iDVD it states that file is too large...How can I split the movie in 2 parts and still keep my chapter markers or should I try to copmpress to fit into iDVD...? Help. Thanks

The new system for discussions asks that after you mark your question as answered, you take the time to mark any posts that have aided you with the helpful tag and the post that provided your answer with the solved tag. This not only gives points to the posters, but points anyone searching for answers to similar problems to the proper posts.
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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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Movie too large? Compressor??

I just finished editing our "Trip to gramda's" movie. It's too large for iDVD. Tho it's 2-1/2 hours, it's also about 24GB.
This seems like a job for Compressor; any suggestions on which settings are best for A)getting it onto DVD (single layer) and B)keeping the quality the best it can be?
thanks!
r

iDVD doesn't take Compressor crunched files. It only takes full rez movies, as it does all the compression internally.
2.5 hours is LONG! A Trip to Grandmas might put people to sleep. I mean, I have been to people's houses where they had shorter slide shows and...
Sorry...all kidding aside, I think that iDVD will take anything over 2 hours. And even at 2 hours, it is compressing it at a higher compression.
Looks like you are going to have to break it into two.
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The item "Mam's Australian Adventure.mov" can't be copied because it is too large for the volume's format

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I notice that there is also a new sparse bundle.
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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For "most" users, I think this is probably the best plan because you preserve all your old backups in case you need them at some point, and you start over again with a new Time Capsule so you have plenty of room for years of new backups.
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SQL Error: ORA-12899: value too large for column

Hi,
I'm trying to understand the above error. It occurs when we are migrating data from one oracle database to another:
Error report:
SQL Error: ORA-12899: value too large for column "USER_XYZ"."TAB_XYZ"."COL_XYZ" (actual: 10, maximum: 8)
12899. 00000 - "value too large for column %s (actual: %s, maximum: %s)"
*Cause:    An attempt was made to insert or update a column with a value
which is too wide for the width of the destination column.
The name of the column is given, along with the actual width
of the value, and the maximum allowed width of the column.
Note that widths are reported in characters if character length
semantics are in effect for the column, otherwise widths are
reported in bytes.
*Action:   Examine the SQL statement for correctness. Check source
and destination column data types.
Either make the destination column wider, or use a subset
of the source column (i.e. use substring).
The source database runs - Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - 64bit Production
The target database runs - Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
The source and target table are identical and the column definitions are exactly the same. The column we get the error on is of CHAR(8). To migrate the data we use either a dblink or oracle datapump, both result in the same error. The data in the column is a fixed length string of 8 characters.
To resolve the error the column "COL_XYZ" gets widened by:
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-alter table TAB_XYZ succeeded.
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select max(length(COL_XYZ)) from TAB_XYZ;
-8
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alter table TAB_XYZ modify (COL_XYZ varchar2(8));
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SQL Error: ORA-01441: cannot decrease column length because some value is too big
01441. 00000 - "cannot decrease column length because some value is too big"
*Cause:
*Action:
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My guess the error has something to do with the storage on the target database, but I would like to understand why. If anybody has an idea or suggestion what to look for - much appreciated.
Cheers.

843217 wrote:
Note that widths are reported in characters if character length
semantics are in effect for the column, otherwise widths are
reported in bytes.You are looking at character lengths vs byte lengths.
The data in the column is a fixed length string of 8 characters.
select max(length(COL_XYZ)) from TAB_XYZ;
-8
So the maximal string length for this column is 8 characters. To reduce the column width back to its original 8, we then run:
alter table TAB_XYZ modify (COL_XYZ varchar2(8));varchar2(8 byte) or varchar2(8 char)?
Use SQL Reference for datatype specification, length function, etc.
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HT1229 My iPhoto Library (version 8.1.2) is 280GB (greater than 50% of my 500GB total storage memory on my iMac. It was too large for me to drag it to a new hard drive so the Apple geniuses did it for me. However they did not delete the Library from my

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the new backup drive
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