LOL, Harley ... I think it failed to write straight to a disc from Premier Pro because you need to be a registered user!!!!!!!!!!!!! ooops, now I have spilled the beans! So have to write to hard drive and then burn to DVD. It's a very slow process though ... I'm using a Jack Rabbit burner and the fifteen minute piece I just finished is taking an hour to burn. But once the first one is done, I can copy it in around five minutes. It really is time for a new computer with more power, a built in DVD writer and a HUGE hard disc.

I still can't figure out why the rendering file is 3gb and the burn disc is 0.5gb.

harley: Do you have an option to 'write at once', or something similar? So it doesn't use any space on your hard drive?

Hi Harley. I've tried to do that .... but it hasn't worked. I blundered yesterday .... I had trimmed the video to 15 minutes from 60 mins but had left one file ... which made it think it was still 60 mins. That will teach me to work on wine ;-) But it still doesn't solve the issue. When rendering, it seems to think that a 1gb file is 10gb (or something like that). Weird.

Incidentally, I bough an external hard drive - the Iomega plug and play - it is small enough to carry in my back pocket! Amazing. But it runs on USB2 and I only have USB 1.1 ... so it is slowwwwwwwwwww.

Time for a new computer???

BIG BAD WOLF:
Thanks ... i fell foul of that earlier. On Nero Suite you have to make sure you click on DVD. But my problem is the rendering ... which goes first to the hard drive before burning.

Worth asking though - thanks a lot!

I'm trying to render and burn a DVD from Premier Pro - the file is probably no larger than 1gb ... but it keeps telling me that there is no more room on the 'disc'. I checked the hard drive that I am burning to and it has 20gb of empty space. It's driving me crazy! any one in the know here who can advise?

Cheers
Alison