Compress file to fit on DVD

Does compression take place automatically at some point from Imovie to IDVD so tath it can be burned to a DVD. I have 120 minutes of a movie.

yes, exactly, that is what the iLife suite is made for: edit in iM, create videoDVD in iDVD... iDVD cares for all that encoding/converting/compressing...
besides:
try to edit a little more, 120min is max. for socalled single-layer dvd-r media... could be, that iDVD asks for a double-layer media (fits 240min), but these are much more expansive...
pic quality depends on length...- best results are with projects of <60 minutes...

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Any way to compress an 18GB m2v file to fit 4GB DVD?

Hello all, the original post can be found here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2327129&start=0&tstart=0
I finally made my file and its way too big to fit on a DVD, is there any other compression I can do to get this to fit on a dvd, or possibly a dual layer disc? It took about 2 days to get this working file so if I have to start over I might cry a little any ideas? thanks

The simple answer is No, you can not fit 18GB of material on a DVD.
In a nut shell - a standard single layer DVD-5 disk will hold ~ 4.5 GB of data which effectively translates to ~2 hrs of video + ac3 audio at reasonable bit rates. You can hold more time but you have to reduce the bit rate of the video so low, the image quality will likely decrease to a level most may find problematic.
A dual layer DVD-9 disk will hold ~double the material of a DVD-5.
I have not read your other threads but, from this one, it appears you lack a fundamental understanding of how DVDs work. I'd suggest you start the the DVDSP Manual and read through all the basic background information as well as the getting started chapters. It is well written and very informative.
x

Getting iMovie file to fit on DVD

I have a 1 hr 12 minute iMovie file with video clips, audio, some titles and stills that is 14.47 G total. When I use "create a DVD" I get the "duration is too long"message. I have made sure (following Karl Petersen's advice) to have ONLY the video clips I want in the iMovie file. I exported all clips to Full Quality Quicktime, deleted all clips in the iMovie file, re-imported the .dv files to get my final movie file. I also set the iDVD prefs to Best Quality, not Best performance.
From searching this forum, I read that a movie that is 1 hr 55 minutes should fit on a 4.7 G DVD. The capacity status pane in iDVD shows 4.8 G.
My question (which is obvious already, I'm sure) is what is happening? The file is only 1 hr 12 min long, including everything. My original file after converting from analog to digital was 14.96 G, so it went down a little, to 14.47 G. Seems crazy to split this into 2 DVDs.
When a video is converted from analog to digital, what settings should it have in regards to bit rate, etc? I'm new to this (like lots of people I use an old Formac unit to convert the video VHS tape to digital using NTSC, about 30 frames per second, high performance (but not best), and no compression. Not sure if any of this is helpful or not to my situation.
If there is a comprehensive answer already out there, I'd love to know. thanks for the help!

A few hours sleep and things are starting to look up! Thanks everyone for the help and suggestions!
I did check the QT show movie info (thanks Hui!) and it shows the file as being 21.88GB. Yikes! The resolution is 720 x 480, 48kHz, 16 bit, NTSC. When I look at the movie in QT it shows it as being over 2 hours long, with the second hours' worth just being white screen. When I look at the exact same, unadulterated file in iMovie it only shows the 1 hr movie. When the playhead reaches the 1 hour 17 min mark, it skips back to the beginning of the movie. Therefore, I was not able to "see" and thus remove anything in iMovie that corresponds to the white screen time I found when playing the file in QT.
Now, I have no idea why there is and extra hour in QT, or why QT info shows the "true" data size of the file and it doesn't show up anywhere else, but my solution (trying it anyway to see if it works) is to convert the movie again (done), check the data size in QT (turns out to be 14 GB, yeah!) and import it back to a new iMovie file (next thing to do). Hope this works!
QUESTIONS: What resolution do people usually use when converting video to DV? Does the resolution of the original VHS recording impact the resolution when it is converted to DV?
Also, Joel, I would like more info on the AVI Divx for storing raw footage files. I am crammed tight for space and need room to maneuver on my hard drives. Could you point me to a web site with info?
Thanks everyone!! I can breathe again!

Export HDV sequence to QT file to fit on dvd

I've been working on a hdv sequence and exported it as uncompressed 8 bit pal which looks great, though its about 6GB. The only other problem is that one of my green screens I had keyed out and shows up as being keyed out in FC showed up on the export. What's happening here?
So apart from the green screen issue, I need my clip to be in quicktime format to play of a projector screen off a PC computer. Needs to be in SD sizing which the export already did for me. I need to be able to reduce the 6GB to fit to a dvd. What's the best way to do this without loosing the great quality.

Or if you're using FCP HD and DVD SP, export your sequence using Export Using QT Conversion, select MPEG2 and go to Options. It'll show you what your output file size will be, so bump up the bitrate as high as you can without exceeding the capacity of a DVD. I'd keep it under about 4GB.
Also, here's a bitrate calculator to determine what bitrate to use...http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm
Doug

Compressing files to fit on CD?

Is there a way to compress a playlist or the audio files in a playlist so I can fit more than 20 songs on a CD-R disc?

If you are burning an audio CD, it will hold 80 minutes, regardless of the size of the files you start with.

Compressed Project won't fit on DVD

I edited a FCP project that ended up timing at 1hr. 59 minutes, and 27 seconds.
I exported the project using Compressor, and chose my presets as MPEG-2 120min High Quality encode (choosing "All" for both video and audio).
I then brought this into DVD Studio Pro and proceeded to make the menus and chapters, etc.
First Question: I was surprised that the compressed audio and video were seperate (an aiff and then a m2v). Is that supposed to happen? Did I do something wrong since I had to add the aiff file seperately to the DVD?
Also, now that I have both on there, I'm being told it's too large to fit on the 4.5 GB DVD. My MPEG-2 file is 2.92 GB and my aiff file is 1.28 GB. Plus the templates are using some minimal space.
Is this because my project's too long? Or did I choose incorrect settings?
I then tried the fast encode because I thought the file would be smaller. That didn't work.
One more question! What kind of discs are compatible to burn in the super drives?
I had some TDKs, but those didn't work on another project I tried to burn.
Thanks!
Sally

It sounds like you're using Compressor 1 (or some variant, like 1.2). Please confirm if that's correct.
If that is the case, your fix might be an easy one. Locate a program called A.Pack on your machine (it should be in the Applications folder) and use it to create a Dolby Digital file.
If you use the .ac3 file that A.Pack creates, and delete the .aiff file from your DVDSP project, that should save you more than enough space to burn your project onto a standard DVD-R.
As for what kind of discs are best with your SuperDrive, that's a bit of a crapshoot (because different products lines from even a single manufacturer aren't guaranteed). But anyway, I've had great luck with Verbatim's DataLifePlus series (I usually get them from B&H).

How do I compress a large pdf file to fit in an email?

how do I compress a large pdf file to fit in an email?

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How downsize a 112 GB .mov file in DVDSP to fit standard DVD?

Help, please. I burned a Quicktime .mov file from HD footage off my FCP 7 timeline. The resulting file is 112 GBs. I took it into DVD Studio Pro as I thought DVDSP would downsize the file to fit on a standard DVD. But the Disc Meter shows the size to be 6.2GB. I went into Preferences to lower the bit rate, but it had no effect on the size. It is still 6.2GB.
Is there a place in DVDSP to adjust the setting to fit the file so DVDSP will burn it? Or will I have to first take it through Compressor?
Thanks! Duncan

I did a test, and I think it would be very helpful for all of us if anybody else could reply to this with their experience/comments.
I started with an hour long project in HD. Then did the following:
1. Dragged HD sequence from Browser into an SD timeline. Rendered. Exported video (in this case, just a short 1 minute clip for testing). Burned this clip to SD DVD via iDVD.
2. In original HD sequence I exported a short 1 minute clip. Dragged this clip into Compressor with DVD settings. Let it process and then burn to DVD from within Compressor.
RESULTS: ON SD TV: There is not much of a difference in quality (at least not on a typical 20-some inch TV), HOWEVER, on an HD TV, the Compressor version (#2 above) looks far better than version #1 above. When viewing the video on an HD TV, the video from version #1 is virtually unusable. I would not even give it to a client. Image quality is very bad. Version #2 still looks not very good but it is far better than the other.
I have not tried using DVD SP pro yet to see if there is any difference.
Hope this helps and would love to hear other experiences.
Eric

HELP! Cannot Compress Footage to Single Layer DVD...

Here's my problem.
I cannot compress footage to single layer DVD. I'm trying to make a DVD with motion menus and a full length feature. TRT 1 hr 47 min 3 sec. I compressed the video and audio using compressor after it did not fit on one single layer DVD the first attempt. The file sizes of the newly compressed video and audio are adequate to fit on the 4.7GB DVD but after importing the into DVD Studio Pro 4 (DSP4) the disc size comes out to 5.1GB. After DSP4 does its own encoding the file sizes double. I cannot figure this out. Please help.
-Alex-
G5 2.5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.4) Running Avid Xpress Pro, After Effects, and DVD Studio Pro 4

AS per David suggestion, get yourself on A.Pack and convert your audio to Ac3.
a link to explain how to use A.pack for a dvd project (providing that you have A.pack still, otherwise you will have to use Compressor, depending what version of the suite you have.
Still this link will help you both:
http://www.dvdxdv.com/Tutorials/ProV1/FCP.multi-channel.htm
Depending on your version of Compressor, you may have A pack or you may not...
An AIFF File could increase your project by a gig...
There shouldn't be any problem in fitting that size project on a single layer project...
Steff
G5, D2.0, 5G-ram, 250GB+500G lacie, X800XT Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Encoding file size for standard DVD too large - please advise

Hi - I shot an 6-hour training session that went well. I shot it at 1280 x 720. For the web version it will be no problem, as I'll just export to F4V.
But i'm having a difficult time figuring out the export settings for the DVD. I know that the disk is limited to 4.6 GB. I broke up the sequences in PPro CS4 to about 30 minutes or so (some are smaller or larger than others).
I first exported to QT but found that a 30-minute export way too large (8 GB) and Encore brought it down to 2 GB but that that will still only allow me to put 60-minutes on one DVD vs. the almost 2 hours I want to get on 1 disk.
AVI is even worst.
I know that widescreen is a larger size so I'm willing to make it standard NTSC but I just cannot figure out which export setting in PPro CS4 to use to make this work.
Can someone advise me on this?
Thank you.

>exported a 36-minute video in QT. It's 8 GB in size. I imported it into Encore, which encoded it down to 2.5 GB
I don't use QT at all (Quicktime is not even installed on my computer) instead using DV AVI to go from AVCHD to Encore to create a DVD http://forums.adobe.com/thread/652694?tstart=0
But, as you found, Encore encodes your "raw" input file into a "finished" DVD file which is much smaller due to how MPEG/VOB is structured
I once put 2.5 hours on a single side DVD... but that was a slideshow w/music to be a background at a party, so there was NO motion at all for the encoding process to have to adjust for to produce a good image
A fast moving video (soccer game) is going to require a lot more DVD space to produce an image that is not blurred due to the speed of movement
For a training session with (I presume) low speed movement, simply export your project in 2 hour sections and have Encore do automatic encoding to create the best fit on the disc
Note that automatic encoding is only (as far as I know) for video that you have not already compressed by using the Mpeg-Dvd output setting
Experiment to find out what works the best for you

MPEG-4 wont fit on DVD

Hello,
I'm trying to burn a video in MPEG-4 format. file size is 1.01 G's .. using IDVD'08 on Leopard. all software up to date.. the program tells me that the video file is to big for the DVD.. when I looked in the project menu, the program reports the video size as 10 G's... I don't see how it can go from 1 to 10 G's...
Any ideas?
All help greatly appreciated .
TIA.
Oscar 

Consider this, one-hour of GB material is 13GB. iDVD will compress this to fit on one single layer DVD. Two-hours would be 26GB and iDVD will compress this to fit on one DVD. That is what iDVD does. You have a VERY, VERY compressed file (1GB=3-hours). This is NOT what iDVD works with. Therefore, iDVD must try and convert your compressed file into something it can work with and then compress that back again to DVD. That is how your little 1GB file can become 10GB or more. Keep in mind that you will lose quality during all of these conversions/compressions.
Mike

Storing multiple DV files across CDs or DVDs via QTime

Folks,
A couple of weeks ago, I attempted to get an answer to questions I had about storing multiple DV files across multiple DVDs or CDs using Quicktime. I failed to truly get a straight forward answer in non-techno English so having now acquired more info, here - for the non-geeks - is what I've learned in regular human non-geek English:
DVD Rs and CD Rs are pretty much the same thing. You have to check to make sure the drive you have on your computer CAN indeed "write" to these disks. You do that by pulling down the "About this Mac..." in the menu with the Apple icon.
Someone in the Comp Forum on Craigslist posted a terrific list of all the permutations of these types of storage disks with the minor differences between each (ex., DVD-RW vs. DVD+RW - some older machines cannot read one of these and I don't remember which). I can't find link to that post but you can try a search on CL or post there asking that the info be REposted. They're pretty nice there.
I haven't pursued determining whether Quicktime will store the multiple DV files across multiple disks but there is no need to since iMovie will do it. Each "clip" in iMovie is the equivlanet to a DV file so you can just drag each clip onto the icon of your DVD or CD. You'll be prompted for a name, et al.
My 1.5 hours of DV footage required 3.5 DVDs to store.
Each DV file is exactly that - a discrete file of video data similar to one specific MS Word file so - there is no need for any sort of program to sequentially store the files on multiple disks or bring them over FROM multiple disks. You the human do that just like when you store multiple documents on a bunch of disks.
File formats were also confusing to me and not really clearly explained here in regular-speak. The DV cam format that you can shoot in is video uncompressed. DV (file will be called "filename.dv" when it is in DV format) is compressed and there are a whole bunch of different compressed file formats. The MPEG term thrown around refers to the way a particular file of video data is compressed - the "compression scheme" used - i.e., there's MPEG 2, MPEG 4, etc. I don't remember what the acronym MPEG means but it's easy to find that out.
I hope the above is helpful to others like myself (and I already know I'm not alone via my research over the past 2 weeks) who have had a difficult time getting straight answers in understandable language regarding all of this.
I also got solutions to my PDA problem w/Tiger which I posted on the Apple Discussion site here. Getting a solution and answers there was more painful than getting this particular DVD/CD video stuff straightened out but both experiences suggest to me ...are you listening Apple... that the old school of tech writers and HI designers at Apple need to be "reinstalled".

Yes. If the data you choose to burn will take up more than one disk, spanning is automatically chosen and the interface tells you how many disks you'll need. You have the option to "Avoid splitting files when spanning". A good precautionary option if you're worried about an important file not reading back off a disk it has to cross over to. You end up with as many normal disks as it takes. There's no need to read them back in any particular order as long as you don't let it split files.

Glitches in Compressed files.

For about 6 months my workflow withing Studio has been working perfectly.
FCP -> Compressor -> DVD SP
Now for some reason the compressed files are turning out glitchy in DVDSP, not the entire file but a few parts within a 2 hour file. The raw captured files play perfectly in FCP and QT.
I don't think space on hard drive is a problem... there is lot of space where i am outputting these files.
Any ideas?

Are the actual DVD's having problems, or just when you Simulate?
I would double check all the Destinations in DVDSP's Preferences, make sure all files are being sent to a disk with space.
Other than that, have you updated Quicktime lately? If that's the only thing that's changed, it might be the problem.
Good luck. Jesus.

Compressed files

can somebody explain a little bit to me about compressed files please. Obviously they r smaller but how much space do they take up? for example if i am copying dvds using toast and i chose to compress it as a .dmg file, how big is the file? also if i want to compress a folder with .wmv files in it, then i to watch them i must expand them first, but are they the same size as a .dmg file? Basically i am asking if it is worth compressing lots of stuff like movies to save space on my hard disc or is this only done for sharing files over a network or the internet?

Hi John,
Basically i am asking if it is worth compressing lots of *_stuff like movies_* to save space on my hard disc or is this only done for sharing files over a network or the internet?
Movies, sounds and images are typically already compressed. Movies especially are normally always compressed to start with, and trying to compress them further can actually result in the 'new compressed' file being larger than the original.
So to answer your main question, there's no point compressing your movies in an attempt to save space.
can somebody explain a little bit to me about compressed files please. Obviously they r smaller but how much space do they take up?
It completely depends on the original file in question so it's impossible to give a definitive answer. Text-based files will generally compress very well, sometimes 90% smaller. Most images formats already use compression algorithms to store the pictures so rarely will you see much saving in space when compressing them. Applications are a combination of binary program files, text resources and image files so compression of them tends to be somewhere in the middle.
DMG doesn't compress a file, it's simply a container for storing other files (which themselves may be compressed).
Hope some of that helps

Best compression for iDVD authoring and DVD playback?

I have some DV footage that I had captured into MPEG-2 files on my old PC, then recently got a Mac and I want to be able to edit the footage on the Mac software I have and put it onto DVD for standard playback on a TV.
I've got the latest Quicktime Pro with the MPEG-2 playback component, and MPEG Streamline that allows me to convert the MPEG-2 files into MOV files. I want to be able to edit them in iMovie and Final Cut Express, and then I want to drop them into iDVD.
I would like to know what the best compression to use would be in converting the MPEG-2 files into MOV files or other format that's compatible with iMovie and Final Cut Express that will result in the best quality for DVD playback. I don't have Final Cut Pro so I don't have Compressor, which I understand, already has a preset compression optimized for DVD authoring and playback later on.

So you have some already mpg-2 compressed files you want to edit in FCE. Using MPEG Streamclip, I suggest you convert them to DV video (which runs about 13 GB per hour) to work on them in FCE.
As far as recompressing the edited video, I really doubt the mpg-2 encoding mode used will make much difference since you took the real quality hit when you initially mpg-2 compressed to content.
If you want to take the additional time required, you can try the new 'Professional Encoding' option in iDVD 7, but I seriously doubt it will improve anything. (You know the old 'silk purse out of a sow's ear' thing...)

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