My burning software is Toast 6 Titanium. It does recognize mpeg files. However, when I want to save it to a DVD it automatically goes into converting it to a full fledged movie file. Soooo, from 1.6 megs to 4.7

ouch! is there a way to force it to Data mode?

Steve,
How long is the movie - in time? It depends on the flile and what compression it has been saved as. An Uncompressed file will be huge - I hour can almost be 10 gigs if I remember right. WHen you make a DVD in iDVD it will tell you how much room you have and or need. The easiest way is to use iDVD and import the movie in and it will tell you if it will work. If you have DVD Studio you cn drop it in there too and it will take the movie and compress it for you. DOn;t worry about the size of the file.

There are Tutorials on the Apple site.. http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#idvd

Jeff

It's 1 1/2 hours long.

You are correct, my bad. I meant dual-layer DVDs, not double-sided DVDs.

ok thats not a problem.. idvd should be able to handle it.. and DVD studio for sure..

J

No bad there at all Mark. I understood what you meant. I should have said dual layer. Either way, it's twice as long as the conventional DVD.

Well actually most commercial DVDs are DL. You can still get your movie onto a single layer DVD with no problems

I don't consider a double sided disk as twice as long as a dual layered dvd, more like 2 dvds glued back to back

Probably what it's doing is using an expansion/compression feature and converting the audio to LPCM. If it does that, 90 minutes of video is too long for a single disk.

Look around for a check box somewhere. There should be one that basically says burn "as is" with no disk compression.

First time I tried Toast I had a 1.7gb file that got doubled in size when I burned it. After being puzzled for a while I found a setting somewhere and unchecked it. Can't remember where it was though, and IIRC it was Toast 8.

A single layer DVD will handle 4.7gb total (4,483mb to be exact). A dual layer actually only handles 8.5gb.