Burning movies to CDR or CDRW....

[kentodd]

Most movies are usually 650 to 750 MB in size with the majority
over 700 MB.
My goal is to burn movies to CDR or CDRW since I'm still waiting
for DVD burner prices to come down...
As I understand it a CDR can hold 700 MB.
This is where it gets confusing...
Try the following...
- Open a folder you keep your movies in...
- Next to the files it shows the file size...
- Now R-Click a file and select properties...
- This shows 2 different sizes...
The one in ( ) is different than the first.
- Now...move the 'properties' window out of the way and look
at the file size listed for that same file in the folder...
- THREE DIFFERENT SIZES!!!

Which one do I go by to see if it's gonna fit on a CDR???
And if the actual file size is slightly over 700MB, is there any way
to squeeze it on to one cd? Or will I HAVE to use 2 cds to burn
one movie?
I keep all my new stuff on my hard drive for file sharing, but
after the new wears off, I want my disk space back!

Movieman

...feed my brain...


p.s. How do I change my username?

[setarip]

The smallest number is the actual number of bytes/Megs in the file itself...

[andrewpk200]

Right,
dunno about you but i am running XP, in that the file size in () is the amount of bytes used where as the the other figure is the SAME amount but in MB, or GB if it is big enough
the size below that related to the amount of space it uses on the harddrive,

the easiest way to make sure it will fit on a cd is to use nero, it has a progress bar at the bottom of the main window showing how much space there is left on the cd

[kentodd]

Link please...

Please gimme a link where I can d/l nero...

It would be nice if ripping/compression programs (which I know
squat about) had a setting to yield a file of 700MB maximum.
I'd be glad the give up the tad of quality that shaving
10 to 40 kb would cost so it would fit on a CDR!!
Idealy I need to cough up $300 for a DVD burner but I'm gonna
wait till they get around $200.


Q: How complicated would it be to, lets say, chop off the credits
at the end which might be enough in most cases to knock
the file size down to less that 700MB?
By the way I have zero experience in video editing...
I've read that video editing can require some 'muscle
under the hood'...I have a 1.6 P4 Dell w/ 512MB DDR
and an ancient GeForce2 64MB MX400 AGP graphics card.
Zat enuff??

[setarip]

"Q: How complicated would it be to, lets say, chop off the credits
at the end which might be enough in most cases to knock
the file size down to less that 700MB?"


Not difficult at all.


Cutting with VirtualDub (or any of its variants):


1)Load your original (DivX-compressed or otherwise) .AVI into VirtualDub
2) Set BOTH "Video" and "Audio" to "Direct Stream Copying"
3) Move slider to the starting point of the scene you wish to delete
4) From the "Edit" dropdown menu, select "Go to next keyframe"
5) From the "Edit" dropdown menu, select "Set Selection Start"
6) Move slider to the ending point of the scene you wish to delete
7) From the "Edit" dropdown menu, select "Go to next keyframe"
8) From the "Edit" dropdown menu, select "Set Selection End'
9) From the "Edit" dropdown menu, select "Delete frames"
10) Save with a new filename

[kentodd]

Kool...

Thanx for the crash course...
I figured out where to get nero and virtualdub...duh....
Pardon the brain fart...
Does this work only with .avi files? MPEG too?

Thanx Again...

[Deus]

Yea contrary to popular belief a kb is not exactly 1000 bites, a mb is not exactly 1000 kb, and so on. Thats why file sizes telling the total number of bites might be different from other measurements.

[setarip]

"Does this work only with .avi files?"

Yes.

For MPEG files, try MPEGCutter v.1.0.5 ("MPEG2CUT.EXE") - it's blazingly fast and easy to use...

[SKD_Tech]

1024bytes = 1KB
1024 KB = 1 MB

I am pretty sure that is right

[Deus]

Ya and in binary

10010010 = 1 byte

and 1 digit of that = a bit

[pops]

I'm gonna try and explain the kb issue and perhaps confuse you guys even more.

1 KB = 2^10 bit = 1024 bit
1 MB = 1 MiB = 2^20 B = 1 048 576 B
1 GB = 1 GiB = 2^30 B = 1 073 741 824 B

That is how most people and software use the different units although new standard has been aproved.

Check this link out for more useful info

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

[kentodd]

Givin' me flashbacks...

SKD...I think you reactivated some dormant brain cells of mine.
If I would have thought back to my college daze, I waz well
versed in binary, hex-decimal (aka 'machine code' 0-9, A-F, which is what all instruction code is coverted to for execution) and Boolean logic (digital by nature). It's been a while...
My 1st. computer was called the Challenger C1P by a company
called Ohio Scientific Inc. (OSI), it boasted a massive 8K of
memory and used a portable cassette player as it's only storage
device, ('80-'81), later came the infamous Commodore 64 with
a 300bps modem, 1200bps for $150 more.
When I graduated college the IBM XT 386 w/ a 80 meg. hard
drive (8088 CPU) was considered THE hot rod of the time.
All this makes me sound old...I'M ONLY 31!!
"Blink and you'll miss it!"

[cypher007]

your biography

your biography sounds alot like mine im also 31. i had a secondhand zx80 which had been upgraded to a 81. then had a brand new zx spectrum 48k. then had a secondhand c64. then a brand new amiga 500. then a brand new cd32. then a secondhand 1200. then i built my first pc a amd k5-166 with 32mg and a 1gb harddrive back in 1997.