BassPig
20th November 2003, 12:15
This one really has me over a barrel:
The sum total of all assets for a particular DVD project is 4.29GB.
When authored in Scenarist Pro, this expanded to 4.58GB mysteriously and resulted in a failure due to inadequate space on the target DVD media. (DVD-R)
The first time I became aware of this inflation of project size was when I chose to reauthor a project I had originally done in DVD-it. The project had a similar size for the assets, actually, a little larger, about 4.31GB total--which successfully authored in DVD-it. I took those same assets and reauthored them in Scenarist Pro and the project image size became too big to fit.
So now here I am blowing a deadline because I have to go back and reencode the whole darned project, re import the MPEG, re add the chapters, marry it to the ac3 track and then put it all back together in the Scenario editor. Easily another whole day. Problem is, release day is Nov 22nd, and I have to FedEx the "gold" master to the venue owners where the video was shot, for clearance today.
The problem is that I don't know how much smaller I need to make the MPEG bitrate. I used a bitrate calculator to arrive at my settings. I hit my target filesize and am actually a little smaller than my 4.31GB target for the assets combined. But Scenerist refuses to burn the master disc because it reports an image size of 4.58GB.
Where is this extra size coming from? That's some 270MB of extra unknown data that somehow developed. Any ideas?
The sum total of all assets for a particular DVD project is 4.29GB.
When authored in Scenarist Pro, this expanded to 4.58GB mysteriously and resulted in a failure due to inadequate space on the target DVD media. (DVD-R)
The first time I became aware of this inflation of project size was when I chose to reauthor a project I had originally done in DVD-it. The project had a similar size for the assets, actually, a little larger, about 4.31GB total--which successfully authored in DVD-it. I took those same assets and reauthored them in Scenarist Pro and the project image size became too big to fit.
So now here I am blowing a deadline because I have to go back and reencode the whole darned project, re import the MPEG, re add the chapters, marry it to the ac3 track and then put it all back together in the Scenario editor. Easily another whole day. Problem is, release day is Nov 22nd, and I have to FedEx the "gold" master to the venue owners where the video was shot, for clearance today.
The problem is that I don't know how much smaller I need to make the MPEG bitrate. I used a bitrate calculator to arrive at my settings. I hit my target filesize and am actually a little smaller than my 4.31GB target for the assets combined. But Scenerist refuses to burn the master disc because it reports an image size of 4.58GB.
Where is this extra size coming from? That's some 270MB of extra unknown data that somehow developed. Any ideas?