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are there any blank dvds available to burn larger than 4.7GB?

hello

ive been working on a highly detailed dvd the past month

unfortunatly it exceeds the file size limit of 4.7

when i go to view>project info, it gives me specs of the project

it shows a red bar full, saying 6.2GB of 4.2GB

i was also curious why it said 4.2 when most blank dvds hold up to 4.7GB?

so i am guessing my project is up to 6.2GB?

this is really hurting for me, i would love to keep all of my work on there without taking any off for the limit on burning. are there any blank dvds you can purchase that are over 4.7 GB? and if they do sell those kind is there a setting or something i can do to let idvd know im burning it on a larger disc?

i know that they sell 20GB blue ray, but i am not interested in that...i looked around for a little but pretty much saw all 4.7GB sized dvds

what should i do? do they hopefully sell larger discs? if so where?

please help! im leaving for college tues and i want to try to get this burned by tomorrow!

thankyou for your time

-mike

Posted on Sep 22, 2007 1:58 PM

47 replies

Sep 23, 2007 11:23 PM in response to elementsk8er506

I woud just give it time and let it go. Make sure your computer is set to 'Never Sleep'

Sep 24, 2007 5:35 AM in response to Beverly Maneatis

ya i let it go over night but forgot to take the sleep off so i didnt see any progress with the bars. since ive had no sleep on now, its been a total of about 3 hours where the program was just open. i havent seen any progress with any of the 30 video encoding bars yet.

i went to my preferences and set sleep to never...but kept the display sleep on...does that matter?
also how should i have my project set up? should i just leave it open showing my project main menu, or should i also open project info, showing the encoding bars, and just leave it like that? what i have been doing was showing the encoding bars in project info and letting it just sit and see what happens.

thanks

Klaus1

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Sep 24, 2007 5:46 AM in response to elementsk8er506

i havent seen any progress with any of the 30 video encoding bars yet.

30 encoding bars?? Where are you seeing that?

Sep 24, 2007 6:31 AM in response to Klaus1

Project Info:

Standard (4:3)
Encoding Best Quality
DVD Type: Single Layer

Project Duration: 115:55 Minutes
DVD Capacity: 3.7GB of 4.2GB
Motion Menus: 3:21 of 15:00
Tracks: 32 of 99
Menus: 6 of 99

Media:
(I have like 50 items in here some video, some audio, some pictures, all of them on the right hand side under status are checked).

Under that on the left hand colum it says asset. Its all of the videos (about 30)

**(My project is not one big video. It is made up of 25 or 30 short 10 minute videos)**

On the right hand side of all those videos under asset, it says encoding. All of the bars dont have any sign of progress yet :/

its been several hours now

im just nervous cause i need about 50 dvds by tonight

whats your suggestion? would the sleep display effect this? i dont know what i should do.

thanks

Klaus1

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Sep 24, 2007 10:32 AM in response to elementsk8er506

im just nervous cause i need about 50 dvds by tonight

Relax. There is no chance whatever of that happening!

I am not clear on what window you are looking in, other than it is the wrong one.

When you reset the project info, did you not go back to the main preview window, and from there click on 'save as disk image'?

F Shippey

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Sep 24, 2007 12:45 PM in response to Klaus1

Klaus,

We aren't getting throught to him.......

He has also asked the same question here: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5423461#5423461 and also here http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5421064#5421064

Fred

Sep 24, 2007 12:47 PM in response to F Shippey

Yeah, I noticed all the multiple postings, too. I thought all the instructions given were pretty straight-forward, but something is clearly not right.

F Shippey

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Sep 24, 2007 12:52 PM in response to Beverly Maneatis

something is clearly not right

I think he is in the panic mode!

He needs to remember 'Festina lente' - (Make haste slowly)

Old Toad

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Sep 24, 2007 12:52 PM in response to Beverly Maneatis

I'm wondering if he's even in the right application.

Sep 24, 2007 2:28 PM in response to Old Toad

Too bad he couldn't do a screen shot of his project.

And to Fred: Festina lente.....absolutely right!

Klaus1

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Sep 24, 2007 2:42 PM in response to F Shippey

We aren't getting throught to him.......

Glad you picked up on that.

I was beginning to lose the will to live....

Sep 24, 2007 5:21 PM in response to Klaus1

+I was beginning to lose the will to live....+

Not over this....... 🙂

He apparently made it work. Look at the link to his other posts. He is in the process of burning his 50 disks.

Klaus1

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Sep 25, 2007 1:16 AM in response to Beverly Maneatis

He is in the process of burning his 50 disks.

Should keep him busy for a few days! 😀

Don D.

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Sep 25, 2007 8:13 AM in response to Klaus1

This discussion has been very educational but I have a question about Old Toad's post dated Sep 23 at 5:56. Is there an advantage to previewing your content with "DVD Player" rather than playing it inside of iDVD?

My apologies if I'm asking this question in the wrong place.

Don

Klaus1

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Sep 25, 2007 8:19 AM in response to Don D.

You should really have started your own thread, not least because your question is completely different from the original poster's, assuming anyone can still remember what that was!

The answer to your question is: the preview window of iDVD does not give you an accurate representation of what the real quality will be like. It is reduced quality to save CPU energy.

DVD Player will show you what the DVD will finally look like on a computer.

Only burning a DVD and playing it back on a TV will actually show you the real final quality - and you will be pleasantly surprised how good it is!

But once you have done it a couple of times you will be able to tell the final quality from what you see in iDVD's preview window.

are there any blank dvds available to burn larger than 4.7GB?