VOB Creation different, material, question, Vision

andy

I figured this was the best place to post my question but if not, guide me and I will post it there.  I found a lot of material to help me up to a certain point then I got stuck.  Here is my dilema.

I captured some video footage from cable TV using POWER VCR II as well as PCTV Vision.  The capture went well.  I saved the capture in MPEG2 format with 48,000 for the audio.  This was done to facilitate the DVD encoding.  Using Vegas Video 3.0, I rendered the project 2 different ways.  One was as a complete project which included the embedded audio and one as complete project with the audio and video seperated to two files.  The all in one project came to 4.8G and the split version came to 401,000kb for the audio and 4.1G for the m2v video portion.

After reviewing both projects, I am pleased with the results.  I then used Movie Factory on the all in one project to convert this to DVD format with VOB's.  When MF completed its transformation, I was surprised at the completed size...7.4G...way too big.  I am now attempting the same process with the two files.  I have no idea what the finshed size will be but, figuring that it may be too large also, I figured I would ask for help in this forum in the event that didn't work out as well.

Since my experience is working from DVD's, I can't seem to find the right combination of processes for converting MPEG2 files to DVD structured VOB's that will be less than 4.7G when completed.  My guess at this point would be to take the created VOB's from both projects and process them like any ordinary DVD to resize and fit on one DVD.  What I don't know, is am I on the right track or is there some other way to take MPEG2 files and convert them to DVD format.

I do not want SVCD or VCD.  I just would like t have DVD formatted files.  Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.  I will be posting results as they happen in case someone else needs this info.  Thanks in advance.

U r certainly in the righ track. What u might need to know is that a 4% of the dvd-r size is conrol and syncronization streams. So all your assets of audio and video should add up to 96% of 4699979776 bytes.

U must have used the complete video twice in MF cause its rougly twice the original size of the assets. There should a be way to render to the correct size.

I am converting to mpeg2 from Premiere and indeed there is a small prolem of predicting the exact size in advance. However I have managed to be close enough to the desired size.