Just a thought (hope I've not missed something in the thread) are you writing an ISO to folder? Could it be that the drive is formatted FAT32 which has a 2GB file size limit?

Quote Just a thought (hope I've not missed something in the thread) are you writing an ISO to folder? Could it be that the drive is formatted FAT32 which has a 2GB file size limit?

Hi Longedge, Good thought. I have many 8 gig files on same PC.

Just thought of something. Created a 1080 WMV of same 74 min video and it is sharper. Normally would be 6-8 gigs as 10 mbps.

It is only 3.03 Gigs! 75% of video is me speaking in front of a stage backdrop. So compression will work superbly on this, maybe 70% of screen is static for 75% of the time.

So is it possible it wrote 2 Gigs because there was no way at 720x480 to use the full disc because of MP2 compression? Guessing same is true if it was 5 min video.

Not sure but nothing else makes sense.

Its off to replication already but if could solve it could tell then to wait for another disc.

See this sticky: https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/50109.page#post_box_263498 and post your DxDiag.txt file as an attachment. Please also click on the word PowerDirector on the top right of the edit screen and post a screenshot of that popup window. On your timeline hit the movie button and then hit the end key on the keyboard and post a screenshot showing the end of the movie. This will help in determining the possible cause.

Quote See this sticky: https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/50109.page#post_box_263498 and post your DxDiag.txt file as an attachment. Please also click on the word PowerDirector on the top right of the edit screen and post a screenshot of that popup window. On your timeline hit the movie button and then hit the end key on the keyboard and post a screenshot showing the end of the movie. This will help in determining the possible cause.

Thanks, here they are

Quote See this sticky: https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/50109.page#post_box_263498 and post your DxDiag.txt file as an attachment. Please also click on the word PowerDirector on the top right of the edit screen and post a screenshot of that popup window. On your timeline hit the movie button and then hit the end key on the keyboard and post a screenshot showing the end of the movie. This will help in determining the possible cause.

Tomasc, what about the idea above, that since 75% of teh screen is static the compression makes file smaller than disc? I presume a 5 min video does not right the whole DVD also.

Quote Tomasc, what about the idea above, that since 75% of teh screen is static the compression makes file smaller than disc? I presume a 5 min video does not right the whole DVD also.

Looked at the mpeg-2 DVD HQ profile. It appears that cvbr (variable) instead of cbr (constant bit rate) is used. You have to create a custom profile with constant bit rate for what you want. There would be no advantage to it if the video is pretty much static as you say. You did say earlier that this is the first time for such small files created. That would explain it.

Most users would not see this issue as all my videos have constant motion and so do the images used in my motion slideshows. cvbr and cbr would produce about the same file size in this instance. cvbr would produce smaller files if there is little or no motion. Very few of us have tested that but it does make sense.

Your PD13 is already patched to build 3516 as shown in the screenshot. You could probably fit 2 hours on this particular dvd project but not if you use videos that have a lot of motion. Your timeline of 1 hr. 13 min. show no chapters. Adding a lot of chapters could increase the file useage another gig if used with a menu. Looks like that you are good to go!

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Quote Tomasc, what about the idea above, that since 75% of teh screen is static the compression makes file smaller than disc? I presume a 5 min video does not right the whole DVD also.

Looked at the mpeg-2 DVD HQ profile. It appears that cvbr (variable) instead of cbr (constant bit rate) is used. You have to create a custom profile with constant bit rate for what you want. There would be no advantage to it if the video is pretty much static as you say. You did say earlier that this is the first time for such small files created. That would explain it.

Most users would not see this issue as all my videos have constant motion and so do the images used in my motion slideshows. cvbr and cbr would produce about the same file size in this instance. cvbr would produce smaller files if there is little or no motion. Very few of us have tested that but it does make sense.

Your PD13 is already patched to build 3516 as shown in the screenshot. You could probably fit 2 hours on this particular dvd project but not if you use videos that have a lot of motion. Your timeline of 1 hr. 13 min. show no chapters. Adding a lot of chapters could increase the file useage another gig if used with a menu. Looks like that you are good to go!

Thanks, it ended up just being a matter of extra compressable video. I will remember it and hopefully this helps others.