Exceeding Content Duration -- Plenty of space

Hi,
I'm attempting to burn about 8 hours of video onto one DVD. I've compressed the whole package of QT video to less than 4 gigs to fit onto one DVD data-wise, but I cannot build or burn in iDVD because the duration of the videos, time-wise, is too long.
Is there a way to change preferences to allow for this? Essentially, all I need is a menu for the videos so people don't get just a data cd filled with QT videos. Is this possible?
Thanks in advance for any help.

I'm attempting to burn about 8 hours of video onto one DVD. I've compressed the whole package of QT video to less than 4 gigs to fit onto one DVD data-wise, but I cannot build or burn in iDVD because the duration of the videos, time-wise, is too long.
iDVD is NOT the product for you! With a single layer disc you are limited to 120 minutes - that's it!
You probably could use Roxio's Toast Titanium, it has a compress to fit option. However, 8 hours of mpg-2 video (that's what is on a video DVD) on a single layer DVD sounds like the image quality would be VERY, VERY poor!

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I can't burn my movies with idvd. The following message occurs.
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Your project exceeds the maximum content duration. To burn your DVD, change setting in the Project Info window.
Now, the file is about 690 MB, but the total time of the project is 1:30:00.
How do I get my movie burned?

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Your project exceeds the maximum content duration. idvd

please help !! pleaseeeee
i have been reading everyones questions and the answers!! but i still cant work it out as dont have a clue what im doing!!it says:-
Your project exceeds the maximum content duration. To burn your DVD, change the encoder setting in the Project Info window.
how do i do this
my movie is very long !! but i want it all i dont mind having it on different discs !
Project:
- total project duration: 175:49 minutes
- total project capacity: 8.867 GB (max. available: 4.172 GB)
Menus:
- number of menus in project: 1 menus
- total menu duration: 14:56 minutes
- total menu capacity: 63.243 MB
Movies:
- total movies duration: 160:53 minutes
- total movies capacity: 8.805 GB
please can someone help me just burn it
many thanks

iDVD encoding settings:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/11417.html
Short version:
Best Performance is for videos of up to 60 minutes, and uses Constant Bitrate (CBR) encoding.
Best Quality is for videos of up to 120 minutes
Professional Quality is also for videos of up to 120 minutes but of even higher quality (and takes much longer). Both Best Quality and Professional Quality uses Variable Bitrate (VBR) encoding. The advantages of VBR are that it produces a better quality-to-space ratio compared to a CBR file of the same data. The bits available are used more flexibly to encode the sound or video data more accurately, with fewer bits used in less demanding passages and more bits used in difficult-to-encode passages.
A detailed explanation on how VBR encoding works can be read here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_bitrate
In both cases the 'maximum length' includes titles, transitions and effects etc. Allow about 15 minutes for these.
You can use the amount of video in your project as a rough determination of which method to choose. If your project has an hour or less of video (for a single-layer disc), choose Best Performance. If it has between 1 and 2 hours of video (for a single-layer disc), choose High Quality. If you want the best possible encoding quality for projects that are up to 2 hours (for a single-layer disc), choose Professional Quality. This option takes about twice as long as the High Quality option, so select it only if time is not an issue for you.
Use the Capacity meter in the Project Info window (choose Project > Project Info) to determine how many minutes of video your project contains.
This article has useful additional information:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080812050651997
NOTE: With the Best Performance setting, you can turn background encoding off by choosing Advanced > “Encode in Background.” The checkmark is removed to show it’s no longer selected. Turning off background encoding can help performance if your system seems sluggish.
And whilst checking these settings in iDVD Preferences, make sure that the settings for NTSC/PAL and DV/DV Widescreen are also what you want.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1502?viewlocale=en_US

Project Duration: project exceeds the maximum content duration

Your project exceeds the maximum content duration. To burn your DVD, change the encoder setting in the Project Info window.
this is the message i get when i try to burn the DVD. I do have a super that does or is capable to burn a dual layer DVD. How do I change the settings?
any help would be great thanks jim k.

I'm having the same problem:
I have an imovie project which I exported to the media browser on the medium setting. The movie is only 29 min 29 seconds long, 640x360, 345.1 MB. When I try to burn in iDVD I get an error message saying there is not enough disc space. I have tried it with a regular DVD and a duel layer DVD - neither work.
What is the problem? I did a longer movie from the same footage earlier with no problem.
I also went in and changed the idvd preferences to "High Quality" - still no luck.

Project Exceeds maximum content Duration

I have a movie from iMovie that is 106 minutes long. I sent it to iDVD and/or Media Browser. As I place it in iDVD it says the project exceeds the Maximum content duration. It is my understanding that projects can be 2 hours long. The file is only 1.2GB. In iDVD it says the project is 5.85GB for some reason and at 106 minutes it exceeds the duration. Any ideas.

Hi
Yes iDVD doesn't care about GBs at all only duration of movie + menu
and 60 or 120 minutes for SL DVDs
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Project exceeds maximum content duration. New solutions?

Okay, I've done in the past few years at least 50 DVDs (from 1-2 hours long) using iDVD and this is the first time I've had this problem where it keeps telling me that my current "project exceeds maximum content duration," though the project is clearly under 2 hours.
I've searched this forum for solutions, but none came to solve mine. I'm wondering if I'll have to redo this project. I changed the Project Info to Best Quality. I looked for any stray files inside menus, and I even tried deleting a few extra movie clips.
Project: total project duration: 103:52 minutes
total project compacity: 5:570 (max. available: 4.172 GB)
That simply seem right. I've done equally long projects using same camera and iMovie edit and have never experienced this problem until now.
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If you had some large files in motion menus, that could have been your problem. (In the standard definition mode, you can have up to 15 minutes of menu content, and this counts against the 'Best Quality' 120 minute limit.)

"Project exceeds maximum allowed content duration" in iDVD

Trying to burn in iDVD 4.0.1, two and a half hours of video captured in FCE4. Size of file: 31.8 GB.
Got the above error. I was able to burn a one and one half hour capture, size 20 GB.
These are the original QuickTime Movie files produced by Capture. I did not Export.
Anyone know what iDVD's max content duration is? Is it a time max or a file size max?
Would exporting compress the file such that I could get more minutes of video on one DVD?
To try to answer that, I then did File/Export on the 2.5 hour QTMovie file, yielding a 1.62 GB FCEMovie file, still 2.5 hours. I tried to burn DVD but got the same error message - exceeds max allowed content duration.
Thoughts on max duration? Rental movies go longer than 2.5 hours, right?
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TT

hey there TTTTTT,
iDVD has time limits--2 hours on a single-layer DVD, 4 hours on a dual-layer. commercial DVDs may employ a dual layer disc to get more that 2 hours on a disc or use other options for getting more info on a disc--reducing the bit rate for the audio, using variable compression on the video, etc... commercial discs are usually replicated from tapes(DLT) & maybe authored using hardware accelerated very, very expensive software. if your Mac has the capability, try using a dual-layer disc. you can find this info this way: click the Apple> About This Mac> More Info> System Profile> Disc Burning.
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Your project exceeds the maximum content duration.

Save as VIDEO_TS folder....
Your project exceeds the maximum content duration. To burn your DVD, change the encoder setting in the Project Info window.
Is there any way to get rid of this dumb lenght restriction??? I never put them on DVDs, so lenght or size of data doesn't matter. Any one know of another program that doesn't have this crummy restriction??
To Export movie files, I simply convert them to VIDEO_TS, and then back to movie files using DVD Ripper. Quicktime Pro has the export option, but it can't handle exporting a lot of videos at the same time with out slowing the computer down, and the Quicktime exported files are way bigger than when I use iDVD and then DVD Ripper to convert them back to a movie file.

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