[foppie]

Hi,

I downloaded some "24" episodes. It is in AVI format. I converted them to MP4 with ffmpegX. now, the result file is 219.8 MB. when I try to import it into iMovie HD, it says it is too big. When I import two of these files (I've got 4 already), it says it is full. when I use toast, it can burn two episodes and than the DVD is full.

Can anybody help me out or does someone have advise on what file format to convert my AVI files to?

Thanks

[midwinter]

Originally Posted by foppie

Hi,

I downloaded some "24" episodes. It is in AVI format. I converted them to MP4 with ffmpegX. now, the result file is 219.8 MB. when I try to import it into iMovie HD, it says it is too big. When I import two of these files (I've got 4 already), it says it is full. when I use toast, it can burn two episodes and than the DVD is full.

Can anybody help me out or does someone have advise on what file format to convert my AVI files to?

Thanks

If you have Toast, just drag'em in. It'll do the conversion for you.

[foppie]

Yes, I have tried that, but toast cannot work with the original file. and than the question about the three 220 MB files being too big for one DVD disc.

[foppie]

By the way, I used the MP4 H.264 codec.

[midwinter]

I have seen this before, as well, and just assumed it had to do with the re-encoding to mpeg-2 bumping the file size up tremendously. You could try using ffmpegx to convert the files and create the DVD "manually."

[oni]

The problem is you can only fit 2 hours of video on a DVD (4 on dual layer)

So basically you need to look at the length of your video not its actual size in MB

[Thinine]

No, single layer DVDs can carry a wide range of times on them. Just the longer the video, the lower the bitrate has to be to fit on the disk.

[midwinter]

Originally Posted by oni

The problem is you can only fit 2 hours of video on a DVD (4 on dual layer)

So basically you need to look at the length of your video not its actual size in MB

Don't tell that to any of the DVDs I have around the house with 10 episodes of The West Wing on them.

[oni]

i took the "when I try to import it into iMovie HD" as being he was using iDVD as imovie wouldnt say they were too big.

and iDVD does imposes this limit does it not?

[larkost]

iDVD only has a fairly simple MPEG-2 encoder. So you can only fit 2 hours of video on it. For a wider range of video encoding you have to go with Apple's professional DVD package.