Posted by Sailor on 09/28/12 11:54

Hello:

I recently posted a question about adding chapters when authoring a DVD as
I had (to that point) only did straight burns.

Well, I added chapters to a wedding reception and here is the explanation
of the problem. Incidentally, I am using ULead DVD Workshop. I have other
authoring programs that I may try but the results may be the same...
anyway, here goes:

The wedding reception that I added the chapters to starts as a 3.8 mpg. The
run time is 1hr, 58 min. When I go to burn the disk it is showing that the
required disk space is 6.8 GB (much higher than the 4.4 GB available on my
blank dvd's). When I just go to burn the mpg without chapters, it says the
required space is 3.8 GB (which seems correct). Is it normal for chapters
to add so much to the overall output file size?

The menu system is extremely simplistic with a still image captured from
part of the video (as the background), and 5 chapters accessed via text
links.

Any info is helpful..
Thanks again,
sailor

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