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help producing home movies on dvd

Jan 14, 2005 7:56AM PST

I am new to creating and burning my own home movies but my problem is this. I have several disks of my own wedding that a friend taped on his digital camcorder in DV format he burnt them onto dvd disk in avi format they are all about 4.2gb big but only hold about 20mins video on each, i want to use cyberlink powerproducer to create my own dvd of the day. The first problem is that i cannot transfer the disks onto my hard-drive it says i need to delete files and make space, however i have over 160GB of free space. I think this could be something to do with my file system being FAT32, i have read about file sizes but am confused by it. When i use powerproducer to import the files directly from the disks they show as being much smaller about 1320MB. All i want to do is make a dvd of my wedding day can someone please advise what is happening in simple terms and where i am going wrong and also point me in the right direction to understand more, any help is much appreciated..thanks I have a Tiny PC running Windows XP home edition, a celeron processor 2.4ghz and a 200gbharddrive...i hopre this is enough info

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YOU BETCHA!!!
Jan 14, 2005 8:48AM PST

FAT32 is not good for video work since it has the limitation of only 4GB per file. You'll have to run Windows 2000 or better and use NTFS or a Macintosh.

Bob

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I use fat32 on boot partition
Jan 14, 2005 12:07PM PST

but use NTFS on my other storage partitions for the same reason, ie storage of large movie files. I like fat32 since I find it runs faster on my C drive, but use the NTFS for all other partitions and my slave drive.

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DVD
Jan 14, 2005 5:50PM PST