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iDVD Project 8billion gigabytes & won't burn!!! Help!

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Harry K.

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My project on iDVD (IT CERTAINLY DOES NOT EXCEED -ONLY TWENTY MINS LONG) will not burn! It says Project Exceeds Limits and shows under the status menu:
DVD Capacity: 8589934594.8GB all the way full.

WHAT DO I DO???? Please, it's urgent!
 
that number is almost exactly (off by only a few) from the size of 2 32-bit integer values, maybe that's a long float? i am not sure of the sizes of the variables, but yeah, that's an underflow error it looks like. basically when a number exceeds (or goes below) the range a variable can hold, it will start over at the min (or max, in this case) value it can hold. 2 to the 33rd power, or 2 32-bit registers, would give that number. try creating the project from scratch, and if it still does it, submit the problem to apple.
 
Harry K. said:
My project on iDVD (IT CERTAINLY DOES NOT EXCEED -ONLY TWENTY MINS LONG) will not burn! It says Project Exceeds Limits and shows under the status menu:
DVD Capacity: 8589934594.8GB all the way full.

WHAT DO I DO???? Please, it's urgent!
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Aren't you going to have to split the file to fit it onto two 4.7 GB DVDs?
 
I think i'm right in saying that you can only fit 3 minutes of full dv quality video onto one cdr, but i don't do much video work so i can't say for sure. I can't see why it wouldn't fit though there must be a problem somewhere along the lines. 😕
 
I had a the same thing happen to me once. It was quicker to redo the project than futz around trying to figure out how to fix it. I assumed it to be a corrupted project file and just started over. Probablly not what you want to hear. But sometimes starting over is the path of least resistance. 🙂

Good Luck
 
people, notice that it says 8 BILLION GIGABYTES, not 8 BILLION BYTES. its an underflow error, not something he can do about it. 8 billion gigabytes = 2 billion DVD-R discs.
 
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