If you do not intend to ever burn your project to an optical disk, why don't you just PRODUCE your project to a format that works and then play the resulting PRODUCED file on your computer? No need to go to the CREATE DISC module at all.

Have a great day.

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Quote: If you do not intend to ever burn your project to an optical disk, why don't you just PRODUCE your project to a format that works and then play the resulting PRODUCED file on your computer? No need to go to the CREATE DISC module at all.

Have a great day.

Regards,
-Phil

Hi Phil,

Thanks, that is what I have been doing mostly (Produce section) - I just made an error in my post - I meant to say "may never be writing it to disc" [I will edit the above post]. I would like to save it on a disc eventually perhaps, but if it is oversize a little bit at the moment, I would like to just 'force the program' to Produce it now, and I would just use another program that can compact/recompress the project to fit a disc (such as Nero's Recode utility) later if need be.

I have created slightly oversize projects in the past with Sony's DVD Architect software, and that software allowed me to 'produce anyway, even if oversize' and then I would shrink down the project the rest of the 'little bit of overage', to fit on a disc (usually only a 2-10% recompression anyway, resulting in similar quality to the original output).

I was just looking for a way to do everything in one program: edit, add effects, produce to disc, resize if necessary, and override the warning that it is slightly over the size of a disc, in case I want to 'make it fit' later; that's all.

"...it would help to make PowerDirector an all-in-one solution..." <--- might be going into The Suggestion Box

PowerDirector does have a "Smart Fit" utility in the Create Disk module to reduce the file size, but the reviews are mixed in terms of the output quality. You could try that on your project and determine if you are happy with the results.

Have a great day.

Regards,
-Phil Windows 10 Pro x64
Dell XPS 8930
Intel CoreT i7 (4.6 GHz)
32 GB DDR4-2666 RAM
1 TB PCIe -x4 SSD
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
PD14 Ultimate x64, 4207
CD4 Ultra and AD6 Ultra
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Quote: PowerDirector does have a "Smart Fit" utility in the Create Disk module to reduce the file size, but the reviews are mixed in terms of the output quality. You could try that on your project and determine if you are happy with the results.

Have a great day.

Regards,
-Phil

Thanks for that idea, I have in fact tried the Smart Fit utility and it seems to work well for compressing the project; but as you say, it lowers the Quality quite a bit. It seems to be very conservative [for compatibility with standalone players?] with resolution and uses high bitrates for the screen size it chooses...

Thank you though again for your input.

If you are burning a DVD (Standard Definition), go to 2D > DVD, and use the drop down and select 8.5 GB.

If your project is less than about 2 hours in length, it will fit on a Double Layer DVD.

One hour and under will fit on a Single Layer DVD (4.7 GB)

If you burn a Disk Folder and not Burn a Disk, you can then see the actual size of the Disk folders.

Same thing for a BluRay disk (High Definition), 25 GB, 50 GB, 100 GB or 128 GB disks.

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Quote: If you are burning a DVD (Standard Definition), go to 2D > DVD, and use the drop down and select 8.5 GB.

If your project is less than about 2 hours in length, it will fit on a Double Layer DVD.

One hour and under will fit on a Single Layer DVD (4.7 GB)

If you burn a Disk Folder and not Burn a Disk, you can then see the actual size of the Disk folders.

Same thing for a BluRay disk (High Definition), 25 GB, 50 GB, 100 GB or 128 GB disks.

Thanks,

The entire project totals about six hours I believe, which I was going to recompress to fit a disc later on, but play it from the folder for now, but it wouldn't let me export it 'because it was too big'.

Thanks for reminding me that BluRay goes up to 128GB -although, I'd rather use MPEG4 instead of MPEG2 if I could

Thanks for reminding me that BluRay goes up to 128GB -although, I'd rather use MPEG4 instead of MPEG2 if I could

BluRay is both MPEG-2 and H.264. H.264 is AVC or .m2ts files.

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Quote:

Thanks for reminding me that BluRay goes up to 128GB -although, I'd rather use MPEG4 instead of MPEG2 if I could

BluRay is both MPEG-2 and H.264. H.264 is AVC or .m2ts files.

Oh, thank you. I don't know as much about the final disc authoring as the editing before it... I was under the impression that I could only use MPEG-2 on a BluRay if I wanted the fancy menus, etc (not just a bunch of MPEG4 files on it). If I could use AVC and still have a nice menu function that'd be great.

Yes you can create videos with menues. As Carl312 pointed out choose 100gb or bdxl and burn to folder only. PD has always overestimate the final disc size. 3hr of 17mbps camcorder video will fit a 25gb bd for sure. Don't know about game capture. You can estimate closer than what PD can. Do one and see what the folder size is and you can calculate which way to go (interpolate).