Fitting big movie on DVD

tjprogrammer wrote on 7/26/2004, 11:32 AM

Sort of a newbie question -- I have a roughly 132 minute movie that I'm having trouble fitting on single-layer 4.7 gig DVD+R. When I render to mpeg-2, the file size is about 4.0 gig, so I don't understand why it isn't fitting. (I am using a crappy consumer DVD burning program -- came with Roxio CD & DVD Creator and doesn't allow compression or do anything but tell me the file is too big -- I'm trying to get DVD Architect...)
Does anyone know how I can change render options to result in a smaller file size, without losing too much quality?
I have also looked into the free program DVD Shrink, which should probably do the compression fine except it only takes a VIDEO_TS folder and .vob files, which I don't fully understand yet. How can I render/convert this video into a format compatible with DVD Shrink?

Thanks in advance

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johnmeyer wrote on 7/26/2004, 11:41 AM

Click on the Custom button in the Render As dialog and then lower the bitrate. Use this Bitrate Calculator to determine the bitrate needed to make a given length video fit a single DVD.

DVD Shrink is a neat tool, but it should be completely unecessary if you are encoding your own video. It's main use (other than "backing up" commercial DVDs) is when you are creating a DVD from assets that have already been rendered, and you no longer have access to the source AVI files.

BJ_M wrote on 7/26/2004, 11:41 AM

render to a lower bit rate to fit ..

use 4321 average, 7800 max, and 500 min. .. with 192 ac3 stereo audio (not lpcm)