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I do NOT mean data DVDs. That would be easy to do with WinRAR or Nero.
I mean videos in whatever format a job requires.
As in the example above, if I end up transferring the following to digital video:
7,000 feet of 8mm home movies from film
3 VHS tapes
15 Hi8 tapes
Now I have a bunch of video data that I need to put on DVDs to watch on TV.
The videos are all different lengths.
How I do it now is very clumsy and inefficient: I estimate the length of the initial video data and drop a few videos into a timeline (Premiere or PD). I use the disk burning features to see how much will fit on a DVD at a given bitrate and frame size, then trim the video or add more, accordingly. If I need to trim, I save that off to add at the beginning of the next DVD.
I then do this over and over and over to end up with however many DVDs I need to hold all the movie data I have. DVDs that are playable in standard DVD players.
There must be a better way to put a lot of movies on the fewest DVDs possible.
Estimating and trimming excess manually seems to be something a computer could do really well.
They do it for data disks now. Why not DVD movies?
Say I have 60 gigs contained in 100 movie clips, and I exported those to play at 1920x1080/60i. I want to burn those to playable DVDs.
I saw another post about creating a single massive project in PD, then splitting out the first DVD, marking the location, creating a new project, splitting out the second DVD, marking the start and end locations, then creating a 3rd project, splitting out the third DVD, and so on.
This seems incredibly time consuming and error prone.
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Hi JL_JL,
I'm looking for an intelligent way to distribute, let's say, 30 - 40 gigs of video over x number of standard DVDs, in sequence, without having to manually split every disc out one at a time.
"60 minutes" is meaningless until the software does it's work with bit rates, etc.
Sometimes I'll use SD quality, sometimes full HD. I don't know why you assumed the former 
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I'm transferring multiple tapes and films to disk. I want to put them on multiple DVDs.
Is there any intelligent way to know how much movie can fit on a dvd, and split the videos to fit?
I always run into this issue. I'll have too much to burn to a single DVD, and I'll trim it, exporting the remainder to add to the beginning of the next set of movies. It seems there would be a better way.
Say after transferring from all the tapes/films/whatever, I end up with 15 videos of varying sizes, from maybe half a gig each to 5 gigs each. How can I intelligently combine and split these up to more efficiently fit DVD disks?
I'm happy with 5 or 10 or 20 DVDs. It doesn't matter how many, and I don't mind splitting movies over more than one disc.
I see a lot of data burning software that spans multiple discs. I need something similar for DVD movies.
Any thoughts?
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Hello Barry,
Actually, no. I saved and left. When I came back and opened the project, nothing was there. I just assumed that anything captured would still be in the window.
Evidently it's session based?
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Hi all,
Using PowerDirector 13.
I'm capturing from a Sony Digital 8 camcorder. The capture works perfectly, and the media shows up in the Captured Content window just fine (in the Capture module).
I save the project, and when I return, the Captured Media window is blank.
I do have Add Captured Files to Media Library checked in Preferences->Capture.
Any ideas?
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