I've come to you guys before. I have had help learning the ins and outs of Encore, but my help isn't available right now.
I record stock car racing and in the past I have been able to fit approximately 2 hours worth of footage on a dvd, if it was an 2:15 minutes I could reduce the bitrate to make it fit. However, last fall when the season ended I started having problems with projects not fitting on the dvd.(and honestly, I didn't work on any video over the winter and completely forgot about this problem) Right now I am working on one that is 1:42 min and it won't fit. I have tried lowering bitrate, but that isn't fixing it. And, I really need to be able to fit close to 2 hours every week. In the build window the 1:42 minute project is 5.49 gb, dvd is 4.7. I apparently changed something somewhere, but I don't know where. Here is some info that may help~ again, I am not very good with the technical aspect of this. Premiere codec DV NTSC, stereo, 16 bit. Encore codec is MPEG 2 (could this be the problem since it differs from Premiere codec?) Transcoding: automatic.
This is probably too vague, but maybe someone can help narrow it down. Thanks