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Trying to make a DVD with some episodes from Dark Skies series.
I made a bunch of disks from Battlestar Galactica for season 2, all the originals were encoded with Xvid. I could cut 5 episodes to disk using DVD MovieFactory, complete with a full menu and thumbnails.
Unfortunately, I no longer have those BSG files to compare the differences to the Dark Skies episodes. I do remember the BSG was encoded with 720x480, so I didn't have to change anything, just dropped the files into MovieFactory and was pretty much done.
Problem is, the Dark Skies files are not the same...nowhere near the same...even though they are using Xvid, that is where the similarities end. I can barely fit one episode onto disk.
I've tried reencoding the files, resizing the video, using the lowest quality, whatever I could to change the file size....this I could do...I took one that was 750MB (two episodes stuck as a single file) and reduced it to 400MB, but still, when I drop it into MovieFactory, it explodes to exceed a standard DVD...I must've done this 30-40 times now, trying different settings in Win AVI to reencode it and nothing seems to make any difference. Even taking sound out of the equation makes no difference.
Hopefully someone here will know what I am trying to do and point me in the right direction...it's getting frustrating. And if this thing makes me login again, I'm gonna scream....
Trying to make a DVD with some episodes from Dark Skies series.
I made a bunch of disks from Battlestar Galactica for season 2, all the originals were encoded with Xvid. I could cut 5 episodes to disk using DVD MovieFactory, complete with a full menu and thumbnails.
Unfortunately, I no longer have those BSG files to compare the differences to the Dark Skies episodes. I do remember the BSG was encoded with 720x480, so I didn't have to change anything, just dropped the files into MovieFactory and was pretty much done.
Problem is, the Dark Skies files are not the same...nowhere near the same...even though they are using Xvid, that is where the similarities end. I can barely fit one episode onto disk.
I've tried reencoding the files, resizing the video, using the lowest quality, whatever I could to change the file size....this I could do...I took one that was 750MB (two episodes stuck as a single file) and reduced it to 400MB, but still, when I drop it into MovieFactory, it explodes to exceed a standard DVD...I must've done this 30-40 times now, trying different settings in Win AVI to reencode it and nothing seems to make any difference. Even taking sound out of the equation makes no difference.
Hopefully someone here will know what I am trying to do and point me in the right direction...it's getting frustrating. And if this thing makes me login again, I'm gonna scream....
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