When Converting avi - dvd.....

[Jensen]

I converted 3 avi movies appr.226mb each in dvd format. Now there over a gig each is this normal?? Why?? I m very new to burning dvd's, unfortunately invested first, learned last.... any help appreciated

[paglamon]

Size of avi is not important.The size of the DVD will depend on the time of video and the bitrate at which it is encoded.

[Jensen]

Is this adjustable? Do these numbers look normal? These are 22min clips each.....

[blutach]

1Gb for 22 minutes seems right if you encoded at a constant 6000 kbps (which seems excessive - try encoding at 4000 kbps variable).

Regards

[Chewy]

if you use a program like dvd flick

http://forum.digital-digest.com/forumdisplay.php?f=146

you can usually get 2 hours of high quality video on a single dvd, if the avi's are lower quality you can get more, if they are higher quality then go for less

always save to the hard drive before burning and test

[Jensen]

ok I looked up some info, aparently I burned at 8000 target birate. How do I change this?

Im looking at imgburn, something I've seen somewhere some I need to save/convert my avi into an ISO ?????? what is this and how would I test if it works? If I converted an avi already without the iso, I cant use imgburn . should I delete the converted files???

[blutach]

ImgBurn simply burns your project. It can't convert.

8,000 is way too high. Whatever you are encoding with, lower it to 4-5000 variable bitrate (not constant bitrate). 2 pass is best.

Once you have your DVD project completed and tested in a software player, then use ImgBurn's build mode to burn it. Guides on the ImgBurn Forum.

Regards

[Jensen]

so far I follow you except where to lower the birate in dvd flix. Are saying do a second encoding pass??

looking at the options I see 4Mbits/4000kbits
is this it

[Chewy]

so far I follow you except where to lower the birate in dvd flix. Are saying do a second encoding pass??

simply add more files to your project and dvd flick will adjust the bitrate automatically

[Jensen]

Oh so its stretching to fill the disk??

[Chewy]

Oh so its stretching to fill the disk??

yes, it won't quite fill the disk tho

the program is user friendly, even I can use it

[Jensen]

So then we could say on the safe side to keep the time around 2 hrs, and the birate not to exceed 4000? then convert to iso?

[Jensen]

another thing is Im using 4.7 g disc, but only see option for 4.3g

[Chewy]

imgburn will build the iso for you, it's not as user friendly tho, takes a little getting used to

the 4.7 vs 4.3 is just how they figure size, ignore it, dvdflick consistently outputs slightly smaller conversions, safest thing as a lot of blanks burn badly at the edge of the disk

[Jensen]

ok thank you for your help, I'll convert now. probably go to sleep. Then try to burn tomorrow. Takes a long time to burn due to my usb port 1.1 and the burner is 2.0 its backwards compatible but you can guess how that goes.