Project Duration exceeds the maximum content duration ERROR.

I can't burn my movies with idvd. The following message occurs.
Project Duration
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?

Hi sunilinjapan
Welcome to apple discussions. How many GB's of available hard drive space do you have currently on the boot volume? Assuming it's at least 25 GB's, then try making a disc image to the desktop from the file menu within iDvd. Then use apple's dvd player to test for proper playback. If you get to this point, then chances are it' not your mac but rather the media (assuming the s-drive is doing it's job and you are not trying to burn back to back dvd's w/o allowing the burner to cool a few mins.)
Hope this helps but if not feel free to come on back.

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    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.

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    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.

    The short answer to your question is no.
    iDVD encoding settings:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/11417.html

  • 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:
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    - total project capacity: 8.867 GB (max. available: 4.172 GB)
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    - total menu duration: 14:56 minutes
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    please can someone help me just burn it
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    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
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    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
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    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

  • I've reduced my project size to "high quality," with a resulting 2.42GB size and 78 minutes project time. With my 4.7GB dvd, I should now have more than sufficient space, but I still get 'Your project exceeds the maximum content duration."

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    iDVD is not concerned with size, just length.
    iDVD encoding settings:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1502?viewlocale=en_US
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    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/11417.html
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