Hey guys,
Ok. I'm a noob (this IS my first post)
, not a computer noob, but a video-noob fer sure .But I HAVE been reading the tutorials and trying to figure things out myself, and reading threads, but frankly I'm stuck . I admit to being a video-idiot .
I'll try to keep my questions simple and to the point .
The specs: I have a NEC 3500A burner (dual-layer jobbie), using 700 mb/80 min blank cd-r's, a Toshiba player that plays VCD's and DVD's, and am running Win2K.
Problem # 1: I have a 716 MB avi file I want to burn as a VCD file and watch on my tv with the toshiba dvd/vcd player.
I try to burn the vcd using Roxio creator version 7 to burn it and it reports the file needs 830 mb on the cd-r
(or so) after i've edited the beginning and ending credits out of it.
My noob question is: does starting out at 716 mb avi file
(now presumably smaller as I've edited the credits out of it) , and ending up at 830mb vcd file sound right ?
Are there proggies out there that can "right-size" the burn to the 700 mb disc ?
Are there larger CD's available (e.g. 800 mb) and if so what is manufacturers name ? Does newegg stock them ?
Should I try to "overburn" to the CD-R ?
Or is there a way I can squish the file a bit with a proggie b 4 burning ?
And oh, yes, I did try to burn it as a DVD. Used TMPGEnc to convert it to DVD compliant MPEG file. That resulted in a 1.46G mpg file. Tried to burn it to a single layer dvd-r disk (4.6 gb capacity ) and it said the file was too big for the dvd disk ?
So same questions apply as above .
Or do I have to split these files into two parts are burn two vcd's and two dvd's.
Thanks so much for your patience . It's not easy being a noob, but hopefully with a few good wacks to the head from you guys I won't be much longer . I want to do a vulcan mind meld with chickenman and suck his brain dry. Would that be asking too much ? .
Ok. I'm a noob (this IS my first post)
, not a computer noob, but a video-noob fer sure .But I HAVE been reading the tutorials and trying to figure things out myself, and reading threads, but frankly I'm stuck . I admit to being a video-idiot .I'll try to keep my questions simple and to the point
.The specs: I have a NEC 3500A burner (dual-layer jobbie), using 700 mb/80 min blank cd-r's, a Toshiba player that plays VCD's and DVD's, and am running Win2K.
Problem # 1: I have a 716 MB avi file I want to burn as a VCD file and watch on my tv with the toshiba dvd/vcd player.
I try to burn the vcd using Roxio creator version 7 to burn it and it reports the file needs 830 mb on the cd-r
(or so) after i've edited the beginning and ending credits out of it.
My noob question is: does starting out at 716 mb avi file
(now presumably smaller as I've edited the credits out of it) , and ending up at 830mb vcd file sound right ?
Are there proggies out there that can "right-size" the burn to the 700 mb disc ?
Are there larger CD's available (e.g. 800 mb) and if so what is manufacturers name ? Does newegg stock them ?
Should I try to "overburn" to the CD-R ?
Or is there a way I can squish the file a bit with a proggie b 4 burning ?
And oh, yes, I did try to burn it as a DVD. Used TMPGEnc to convert it to DVD compliant MPEG file. That resulted in a 1.46G mpg file. Tried to burn it to a single layer dvd-r disk (4.6 gb capacity
) and it said the file was too big for the dvd disk ? So same questions apply as above
. Or do I have to split these files into two parts are burn two vcd's and two dvd's.
Thanks so much for your patience
. It's not easy being a noob, but hopefully with a few good wacks to the head from you guys I won't be much longer . I want to do a vulcan mind meld with chickenman and suck his brain dry. Would that be asking too much ? .
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