Spliting a movie on multiple dvds

What is the best way to split a movie over 2 or more dvds? My file is about 10gb more than will fill a double layer disc. I don't want to save in smaller format as I will lose resolution. Thanks for ny help.

First, know that the amount that will fit on a DVD has nothing to do with how large your source video files are. Before being loaded to a DVD, the program will transcode it to DVD files, so that you can fit about 60-70 minutes on a DVD at full quality.
That said, if you still need to split your movie into two DVDs, the smartest way is to:
1) Export your entire movie as a DV-AVI using Share/Personal Computer/AVI.
2) Open a new project, import your AVI and place it on the timeline.
3) Trim the clip in half, then author and output your DVD.
4) Do a Save As and save this project as Part 2.
5) Untrim your AVI and this time trim away the first halft, then author and output your second DVD.

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thanks for the tip on type of DVD, but my immediate problem is that when I burn to a DVD, I can only do one movie. I am looking for a way to select all of them vs 1 at a time. I tried the advanced & edit DVD contents but I still have the problem that the program will only burn one movie at a time & then because it is DVD-R, I can't add another. I need to be able to put all 8 on at once (or at least one after another). Is there a way to "combine" them for burning?

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marcr56
I am viewing your question from different perspective, that is, the issue that you face when you are ripping VOBs from a second DVD-VIDEO on DVD disc using Premiere Elements,
It is best to give the Premiere Elements version and computer operating system that it is running on. In the absence of that, I will generalize.
Assuming that you are using
Premiere Elements 12
Add Media
"DVD Camera or Computer Drive"
Video Importer
Typically the Video Importer Save In: is C:\Users\Owner\Videos
Each of your DVD discs is going to have the same names for the ripped VOBs (VTS_01_1.VOB and so on depending on the duration of the movie). Consequently, after the ripping of the first DVD's VOBs and their save to Videos, you will end up with that "files already existing..." block for the ripping of the VOBs from the second DVD.
The answer is, for each DVD disc VOB ripping, to plan ahead and create and set for different folders in Videos in the Save In field of the Video Importer.
Please review and then let us know if that works for you. Please do not hesitate to ask if you need clarification on anything that I have written.
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Why can't I get my 122min movie on a DVD-DL

Hi everyone. I am new to FCPX, but I was a quite confortable user to iMovie.
As I have to get a 122min movie on a DVD, I am obviously using dual layers.
First, I tried to do it with FCPX itself, using the Share > DVD... menu.
Setting it to Double layers, I was happy to use this function compressing my movie to 7 Go - everything works fine and the time left was in good relation with the job done. Until..
When it gets to 47% the estimated time left grows up to 38 hours or so, and it just either takes 12 hours to get to 52% or the "time left" itself gets even longer !
So I decided to get Compressor and try to work with the right thing... but it just seems to do exactly the same thing.
Is there any way I could be told what's wrong in my process? I've learned and read on so many forums Compressor was the right way to do this.
What are the setup I gotta use?
My movie is a 1080p - HD - 1920x1080 - 23,98p
I am working on a iMac, quadcore, 10.6.8
Thank you for your time

Actually, the only difference between Compressor and FCPX DVD disk authoring capabilities is that Compressor offers you the ability to set chapter markers.
The typical advice one reads on these and other Compresssion-related forums is to take a short section of the source file and test it to determine quality and to verify workflow. Unfortunately, with DL DVD, things are trickier and that approach isn't really possible…we don't know whether we have a successful project until we actually burn it and it plays on DVD players.
A couple of things:
What codec is your movie sequence in? If it's H.264, consider transcoding to Pro Res. FCPX and Compressor both will probably be happier if not given a delivery codec l to down-scale from 1080 to 480, encode to DVD standards and also try to determine a break poiny in one fell swoop.
Also, consider down-scaling the movie to SD 16:9 as one stand-alone job. Then take the SD QuickTime output file and use the DVD share preset as a second stand-alone job. If you do that, use Frame Controls for the down-rez job and set the Resize filter to Better or Best.
Another point: be aware that regardless of whether you use the Compressor or FCPX Share>DVD function, you'll get only a single disk. It's not like DVDSP or iDVD where you can sequentially churn out multiple copies. (You can, of course, make copies of your disk when you have burned one successfully.)
Finally, since you have iMovie>DVD experience, I'm assuming you have iDVD installed. Were it my project, and if I didn't have DVD Studio Pro as an authoring option, I would definitely consider going the iDVD route.
Good luck.
Russ

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I have a big compilation of old tapes I imported into an iMovie project. I want to burn the clips onto DVDs readable by DVD players (so MPEG-2), but there are >14 hours of pretty uncompressed video there. I could, of course, chop the movie into parts, but then it's hard to judge how big the pieces should be because the file size on the DVD will be much smaller than my current DV files.
Is there a program or a method to easily burn one big movie file across multiple DVDs by chopping it so each DVD is filled?

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Hello,
I am trying to burn an iDVD project to a single layer DVD but the size of the iDVD project won't fit on a single layer DVD. I've already adjusted the Encoding information (deselected Best Performance and chose either High Quality or Professional Quality, forgot which one right now). But after doing this, it still won't fit nicely on a single layer DVD. Can iDVD span multiple discs for a large project?
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Neil

This is by no means a lame question. However, iDvd cannot do this for you. But may I ask exactly how long the total run time / QT playback is in hours and mins.? And how much available HD space do you currently have on the boot volume (your main HD)?
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