DonH Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 In the bitrate settings when I select "Calculate bitrate automatically to fit your video on a DVD disc", the Writing to Disc finishes and I get the message - "The DVD -R has a capacity of 4.5 GB and you are trying to write 5.5 GB. please insert a larger capacity disc or try fewer files" I thought the program would automatically alter the Bitrate setting to fit the video onto the disc. Am I right in thinking this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_major Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 How long is your video trying to export? If the video is too long it will not fit in the DVD even used lowest acceptable bitrate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonH Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 Thanks Einstein, I was wrong again!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryP Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 I too am getting a message "The DVD-R has a capacity of 4488.06MB and you are trying to write 5671.65MB. Please insert a larger capacity disc, or try fewer files." This message appears AFTER significant time invested in rendering (old PC is slow) and seems to happen just before the DVD write occurs. a) My video amounts to 1 hour and 28 minutes, per the timeline (what is DVD capacity in minutes at highest quality?) Calculate bitrate automatically is set to on. Comments/suggsions: a) message should appear before rendering, not after. Capacity should be referenced as time, bitrate, as well as MB. Ideas/help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonH Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 I'm glad someone else has had the problem. The message comes up after the video file has been converted to VOBs (over 1 1/2 hours in my case) and the program starts burn the results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_major Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 The actual size of the output can only be obtained after the video is encoded. The output size for each frame are different depend on the complexity of the scene. Automatic bitrate calculation is an estimation for average videos. If that doesn't work you'll have to set the bitrate manually. Also there is no way to compute actual output size without doing the compression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryP Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 The manual bitrate setting is a dropdown list. I'd welcome some guidelines as to what will happen with various bitrate settings. Specifically, what is the relationship to maximum bitrate in terms of DVD quality and what is the impact of maximum average bitrate? TNX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_major Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 The drop-down list includes some of the common used presets. You can see them as quality settings form low to high. You can also type in whatever number. Bitrate settings have direct impact on output quality. However the quality may various for different video even they use the same bitrate settings. It depends on how complex and how much motion in the scene. If you interested in details you can search for words like "variable bitrate", "dvd bitrate calculator" on the internet. For my own experience, it required a bit trail and error to get a good result. I would suggest select a few minutes of the typical scene in the video and try with a few different settings to see if they look alright. Multiply the time to estimate the file size and allow some extra space. Best Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryP Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Thanks for the insights regarding bitrate -- I'll be doing my Internet homework. I'd offer a suggestion regarding the error message ... additional information, like the calculated average bitrate and the maximum bitrate used for the VOB that's too big could provide some insight into the "best" manual settings. If those values in VP are available after rendering, could they be made available as part of the error message? Or as entries in the "advanced" tab for DVD Movie export? TNX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_major Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Thanks for the suggestion. Best Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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