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iDVD issue with encoding

welshred

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Hi,

Mac newbie here, I have 4 movie files that are all mpeg files and I am trying to create a DVD using iDVD with all 4 movies on the disc. Two movies are 1.5Gb & Two are 700Mb so plenty of room I though.

When I use the wizard to create a DVD it tells me that there is not enough room on the disc and says the file size is 22Gb!!!

It's also encoding these files as I speak.

What am I doing wrong?

Welshred.
 
MightyGem

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How long are your Movies? A standard dvd will take about 1h 30m of video. If you look in iDVD's Project menu and Project Info, you can alter the quality of the video to try and fit it on a standard single layer dvd, or choose a dual layer disc.
 
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iDVD doesn't care about how big your movie files are in their present form -- it MUST convert them to MPEG-2 before it can then further encode them into DVD format. This often expands the file size exponentially.

As MightyGem said, what matters is the *running time* of those movies. If that's more than two hours, forget it (in terms of putting it on a standard DVD).
 

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