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My Burning software is Nero Burning ROM. As soon as you put a Double layer Disk in the drive, the ruler shows the capacity of a Double layer disk. If the folder is too big for a single layer disk, put in a double layer disk.
In PD if you go into Disk preferences and choose the 8.5 GB disk option when your disk estimate is greater than 4.7 GB, Powerdirector will create the disk folder.
It is easy to check the size of the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders with Windows Explorer. If your Disk Folder is less that 4.7 GB you can burn to a single layer disk (4.7 GB), if it is over 4.7 GB, then burn to a double layer disk.The only difference is the capacity of the Disk. The file structure is the same for both single layer and double disks.
You do know you can uncheck the Burn Disk in Create Disk, and Check Burn Folder. No reason to burn coasters. All you have to do is look at the size of the Disk folder.
Thanks for the reply, Carl - I see I haven't been clear on a number of things:
--I never burn to disc. I always burn to folder. I meant that I want to avoid making any coasters. I still manage to make them sometimes when *other* PD problems come up that make a disc useless. But I always burn to folder first.
--I do indeed burn to 8.5 folder size often as as way of tricking PD into giving me a better/larger file size. Sometimes I end up with something that fits on a 4.7 disc, sometimes I don't.
--I always look at the actual size of the burned folder. That's why I know when a video has been rendered in a size that's absurdly too small, like the constant 2.2 size I'll get for what should be more like the predicted 4.5+ size.
--I misunderstood you earlier. I thought you were saying that your burning program adjusts the folder size automatically to fit on a disc. That's how I interpreted your earlier feedback,
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When burning a folder only, the disk estimate makes little difference in the actual burning of a disk with Disk Burning software, as the disk burning software uses what is in the folder.
I thought you were saying that file size doesn't matter, because the burning software would make it fit- shrink an over-sized folder on the fly to fit it on the disc.
Now I see you're saying that if the video folder is too large, then to use a double density disc. OK, guess I need to start doing that. I have never bought double density discs. I just now returned from Office Depot to get more discs - they didn't even have any double density, only the regular 4.7 discs I've always bought. But yes, it would be nice to go ahead and burn a video that's come out at 5.3 gigs, instead of having to re-render, in hopes of getting something decent that will fit on a 4.7 disc.
But I guess that's the key to why you guys are saying you don't care about what the predicted size is. The secret ingredient is just using whatever capacity disc is needed for the job, when all I've ever used - all I can ever Find at my store, are regular 4.7 discs.
--Barry - a DATA disc that plays in a DVD player--? I don't get that.
Randy
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