Where Did This Nearly 200g File Come From? (DVD Authoring)

Factual Questions
1

OK my Windows Vista came with a DVD making program called CyberLink.

I never made a DVD before but I was bored yesterday, so I thought, well what I’ll do is download some clips from YouTube of the whacky people doing stupid stuff and put them together into one DVD I can play on my DVD

Now I’m not talking about converting formats, I mean you put each clip into the DVD maker and then it puts them together and you can do effects and such.

OK so I put this all together and burn the DVD and it works great it my DVD.

So I look at My Computer and my free space went from 348g to 151g. I’m like “WHAT???”

So I do a search for large files and I find this file for 197g. So I click on it, and it’s the DVD (or movie) I just made.

Does anyone know just what is this file? I deleted it since I have the DVD burned and I have the original clip. Is this normal when making a DVD?

2

That’s not even close to normal. Either you used some ridiculous quality settings, or there is a problem with the program.

3

Are those all like .temp backup files of both file versions?

That sounds like a lot of space though…:dubious:

4

I am not sure, but I think the file was .pvd or .pdv or .vpd or something like that. I deleted it pretty quick.

I will have to try to make another DVD.

I noticed that I do have the ablity to make High Quality videos too. I wonder if instead of making a regular one I made a HQ one.

5

It probably first converted the utube (flv) format into raw video, then converted the raw video into the mpg format for the DVD. This may be because it didnt come with a native flv to mpg converter if one exists. Raw video is very memory hungry, which is why all useful video formats are highly compressed.

6

Often, burner software has an option to assemble the entire thing into 1 big file on disk, and then burn it (handy when you want to make multiple copies, for example).

Are you sure you don’t have this option turned on in your software?