[Amplus]

Set up an iDvD project with menu and three episodes of a show. The episodes are about 200 mb each. Insert a 4g DVD+r disk and it tells me it isn't big enough. wtf? So i was thinking it must re-encode the files so length of the disk in time (120min) is the limiting factor not storage capacity. So I change the project to only two episodes (80 min total). Still not a big enough disk. It will let me burn the project with only one episode but its a real waste of a disk to do that.

Anyone see what I'm doing wrong here? It's a 17" G5 iMac running IDVD5 I believe.

I've reposted this thread in a different forum that seems more likely to get a response

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...37#post2977037

[tooki]

Please, use smart thread titles: this thread isn't about you being a newbie, it's about having iDVD tell you that it won't fit. Good thread titles are a summary of the question, not an announcement that you have a question! (Unfortunately, I have no idea what the answer to this question is.)

tooki

[Amplus]

I agree that was a poor choice in thread title. Anyway I can edit it?

[icruise]

In order to put video on a DVD, it has to be converted to MPEG-2, so no matter how small your original files are, you're limited in the amount you can fit on a DVD (this is particularly true with iDVD because it seems to use very high bitrates). Earlier versions of iDVD were limited to 60 minutes of video, but I thought there was an option in later versions to up the compression and fit in 90 minutes.

iDVD really isn't very well suited to making DVDs of TV shows. There are other programs around that might work better (that will allow you to adjust the bitrate, for example) but I'm not sure what the best one is. I used an earlier version of DVD Studio Pro to get around 3 hours of video on one disc (admittedly not perfect quality). But I can't recommend using that program, since it's expensive and relatively hard to use -- definitely overkill for this use.

[Amplus]

I was looking into Toast to do this. From what I read it is similar to iDVD but more flexible with media types and compression options.

[MRTrauffer]

Toast would definitely be a good choice.

As for DVD Studio Pro, I agree about it being expensive and overkill for this kind of project, but I have to say that it's not that hard to learn. It's layout and workflow are pretty simple to adjust to for you can lay it out to be a simple interface, or advanced...your choice. Very Flexible, but also a pretty large investment.

[icruise]

For the record, I was using the previous version of DVD Studio Pro, which had a completely different interface from the current program. And yes, it was rather hard to learn.

[MRTrauffer]

I agree that the interface has greatly improved. I learned on DVDSP 2.