Not enough disk space / avi too large / stupid something

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Tin Man

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Ok my guru brothers,

this may sound stupid but here goes.

every once in a while i get asked to convert a VHS to DVD for friend. I do this by using old VHS player with RCA out to pass through sony dv cam via firewire to PP2.0.

sounds straight forward right.

so, now i have avi of about an hour of footage. standard default 4:3 project and when i try and render out to dvd, PP2.0 says insufficient disk space. meaning the avi is too large for 4.7 g dvd.

now i realize some of the compression, but i have dvx100b and have imported 2 to 4 hours of video from camera to PP2.0, took 13 gig file into PP2.0, edited and then rendered out to dvd compressed. no problem.

am i missing something here ?

am i mistaken on avi direct or via my pass through ?

should i be doing a cheap mpeg capture rather than avi ?

basically why cant i fit a 1 hour avi from VHS on a dvd.

thanks bro's in advance.

Tin Man
 
easy fix...

export your audio only and convert it to ac3 if u can or .mp3 from the .wav
audio takes a ton of room.

put the mp3 back in and u'll be able to fit it in.
 
Hi,

The DV file is 13 GB per hour, a DVD file is an MPEG compressed file which is scalable and can be from maybe 90 minutes to 120 minutes per DVD. So it's an apples/oranges comparison of CODECs (compression/decompression) that you have trying to work going from tape to hard drive to optical media.

If you want to keep the content to "DV" type content, you might try to capture 18 minutes of it - 4 GB and drag that to a disc. It would take more discs, of course, but you'd have all the content in its original form at the best compression.

This is, of course, if I understand what you mean. :thumbsup:
 
you can have best compression for video but audio doesnt need to be that large. If you look @ retail dvds all the audio is in .ac3 format. wich is good quality but small. When i did my first film i looked into it, and i had a similar issue, i coudlnt burn a 40min dvd cuz the audio was .wav. So i did resarch and all dvds have .ac3 audio wich can be 5.1 or stereo or whatever. So i had the audio exported as .ac3 file, put that in my timeline and it worked out great. If you are making a quick thing for family, if u export audio to .mp3 it'll be just as fine.
 
Hi Saturnin,

I've re-read Tin Man's original post and I think what he wants to do is just convert VHS to a DVD format, in which case you're completely right. If there isn't any desire to edit or put any content on the timeline to edit, any conversion to anything but either AC3 or MPEG audio would be a waste of time.

I'm unclear of how Tin Man's doing this though. Capturing through a DV device on the timeline and exporting using a preset using an MPEG audio or an AC3 as you recommend should do it.
 
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