DVD Over 4.7 gigs fix!!!!!!!!!

SweetPea wrote on 11/21/2004, 12:01 PM

i just finished a project in dvda and the project took up 153% and dvda would not burn it. so i prepared the dvd through dvda and used DVD Shrink to compress it and it works fine. DVDshrink is a free program that can be download from the net

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Spot|DSE wrote on 11/21/2004, 12:28 PM

If you had used the Optimize option with Fit To Disc in DVDA, it likely would have had a better encode than you got with reencoding and DVD Shrink.

johnmeyer wrote on 11/21/2004, 7:19 PM

You definitely want to follow Spot's advice. DVD Shrink is great for getting yourself out of a jam, especially when a re-render and prepare is going to take ten hours and you have to deliver right away. However, you are much better off using a bitrate calculator (if you encode in Vegas), or use the shrink to fit option (if you encode in DVDA).

Here's a link to a bitrate calculator that will give you the bitrate that will make a single MPEG file just fit a 4.7 GB DVD:

Bitrate Calculator