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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.
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