someone tell me!

petervaj wrote on 2/27/2007, 6:47 PM

i have 800 mb video clip that i imported into dvd-a...and dvd-a tells me that i have used up about 1.4 gig of the disc space...its that bar on the bottom right hand corner...why does dvd-a do this...is there a way i can change it...cause its not accurate...

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johnmeyer wrote on 2/27/2007, 7:11 PM

Open a new DVDA project. Then, drop that file into DVDA. Don't do anything else and then look at the estimate. If it still says 1.4 gig, check the audio file that is being associated with the video file. If it is a PCM (WAV file) then that is probably the reason. If you encode using AC-3, you will be able to fit MUCH more video onto a DVD without degrading the audio very much at all.

Finally, DVDA estimates are sometimes too high, although usually not by the amount you report.

MPM wrote on 2/28/2007, 9:43 AM

"...why does dvd-a do this..."

A pure guess: DVDA doesn't know how big some content files are going to be until they're in final form. DVDA 4 will drop the estimate after you render the proj to hdd, after it's compressed the video menus, along with any audio/video content. In your situation *maybe* DVDA is figuring the size of an intermediate video file -- maybe an uncompressed avi ? Orrrr... Maybe it includes the minimum 1 gig of data Nero I think refers to for compatibility when burning DVDs?

Either way it's probably not a good idea to rely on that *estimate* too heavily.