Export size - HELP

I have edited a video which is just over a hour long when I export it it is 40 gig and therefore won't fit on a DVD. I'm new to this and must be obviously doing something stupid. A dvd of a film has so much more than my 1 hour film so why can't I export at a size that will fit on a DVD. I'm exporting as a quicktime movie.
Any help appreciated

Don't worry about file size at this point. Your DVD authoring program will compress and encode. About two hours of video will fit on a standard DVD. (I recently finished a 2:08 project which fit.)
I assume this is HD footage. Export a QuickTime Movie from FCE (do not use QT Conversion) and bring the resulting file into iDVD (or the authoring program of your choice). (The DVD will be standard-definition.)

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Lately I've edited a feature film and the final export is 25GB and it simply intolerable that even after encodings using simple software I got to 7Gb and quality went down significantly.
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As I have read from MacCreate.com and as I have tried and tested, Photo Stream on Aperture 3 uploads the native files to iCloud. So if you import RAW only files, it uploads RAW and pushes it to your devices. I imported some RAW photos on my iMac yesterday, when I open up my MacBook this morning it downloaded the same RAW files.
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Hi, I asked a smilar question in the imovie community but thought it would be better here. Though the nuance of this question is a bit different...
I created a montage of old pictures and video clips in iMovie '11 and need to eventually create a DVD in 4:3 aspect ratio. I exported the movie in 1080p (1920X1080).
a few questions:
1. Does the HD export size matter and will iDVD try to sqeeze the widescreen format into a 4:3 ratio?
2. Should I instead export it as large 960X540 to prevent problems when I make the DVD?
3. How does export size affect the ultimate aspect ratio? ( saw some similar posts but not really what I need to know)
thanks

Since you're using iMovie 11 use the Share ➙ Media Browser menu option and, yes, select the Large size.
Do not use the Share ➙ iDVD option since that throws away every other line of the movie resulting in a greatly reduced image quality.
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image and launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was good.
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I have a 12 minute movie with audio, video and stills in it.
Currently when I export it the file is 865MB... I need it to be less than 100 with decent quality. It is a tutorial video that will be downloaded from the web.
Can you please give me some direction on how to do this? On what variables to change etc. I know if I exported this out of Camtasia Studio, it would be around that 100 or less bench mark .... problem is I don't know what the settings for the Camtasia preset are.
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Summary:
Output:
1400x790, 15(fps), quality 100
48000 Hz, Stero, 16 bit
H.264
Source:
Sequece, 01-OverviewSWKit
1920x1080 (1.0), 24fps, Progressive, 00:12:03:12
48000 Hz, Stereo
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Video Codec: H264
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Quality 100
Width/height (1400 x 790
Aspect: Square pixels (1.0)
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Depth: 24 bit
Advanced Settings
Key Frame every 1 frame - "UN" checked
Optimize stills - "UN" checked
Frame Reordering "UN" checked
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Use Maximum Render Quality - "UN" Checked
Use Previews "UN" Checked
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Short of changing the dimensions of your destination video, decreasing the frame rate, or changing the bitrate of the video and audio streams, you will eventually reach a limit of how much you can push one parameter or another. You might try using H.264 in the Format (not codec) dropdown; this will give you a bit more control over encoding to an H.264 MP4 file. Unless you specifically need a QuickTime MOV, you might find you get better results with the H.264 MP4.
These are of course just the options in Premiere itself. Once you go outside the castle walls, you can find a whole bunch of other options, though they usually come at a steeper learning curve. The big thing to remember is that there is no free lunch when it comes to encoding; you have to give a bit here to gain there, and it's all about setting thresholds of what you're willing to accept.

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Thanks for the advice, yet ideally i was hoping to use Toast to burn the dvd, and was wondering the best way in which i could keep the best quality of the movie and the format type to use to achieve this
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Terence, you've helped me on a lot of things, so I guess I am going to further ask for clarification....
I have recently been trying to use Aperture solely (and pretty much abandon iPhoto.). But, when I say export a file to jpeg (whether it is currently a RAW or JPEG file, I am concerned about my settings-- by default, the setting "export jpeg in original size" has settings as 72 dpi. I have changed that to 300dpi. Is this why I have 15-20MB files? Is this the correct setting? I don't want any printer to have a false representation of how much data is there. Nor do I want to lose any data either.
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mahalo,
paul

What we need are the clip properties & sequence settings in Final Cut Express. Your screenshot is from a Finder window.
It would appear you have a clip with nonstandard frame size (1366x768) in an H.264 file. FCE cannot edit this material. FCE is limited to specific codecs and frame sizes. You need to convert your clip to QuickTime/Apple Intermediate Codec. If it's highdef widescreen then convert it to QT/AIC 1920x1080i. Try using MPEG Streamclip to convert the source clip.
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Hi Bengt, thank you, i figured that out too, i am stupid, it was on transitions
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