Fitting AVI's on DVD

[director_dan]

Hiya everyone,
Im having trouble with burning movies on to DVD, I can use the software and everything fine its just im trying to get some AVI files onto DVD but they go from about 700 MB to 5.6 GB when the software converts them to MPEG-2.

Does anyone know how i can compress them to fit on one DVD rather than splitting it onto 2?

Thanks guys

Dan

[setarip]

"Does anyone know how i can compress them to fit on one DVD rather than splitting it onto 2?"

DVD Shrink (freeware) or DVD2One (commercial)...

[megamachine]

DVD Shrink needs full DVD structure, so you would have to author them first. You can try ReJig, which accepts straight MPEG-2 files.

[director_dan]

Hmm none of these programs realy do what i need, basicaly im burning through Ulead DVD Moviefactory 3 because it lets you create great menus,

what i need is a program that will reduce the quality of the video so that it is small enough to fit on the dvd, I have the following Editing titles

Adobe Premiere 6.5
Adobe Premiere Pro
Pinnacle 9 Pro
Sony Vegas 4
Ulead Video Studio 7
Adobe After Effects 6

I know how to downgrade the quality in Premiere but it take like 2 hours on my PC to render the whole 2 hour video

so basicaly is there any software that can decrease the quality quicker than Premiere?

cheers guys.

[sfheath]

Not sure you understand the suggestions.
If you author/edit/whatever your movie to a folder first you can run DVD Shrink on a 5.6Gb structure easly to reduce to 4.35Gb.
Then simply burn this Shrunk structure?

[director_dan]

Ok, so when you say DVD structure do you mean the iso file?

[sfheath]

I had meant the VIDEO_TS & AUDIO_TS folders but I'm pretty certain I read recently that the latest versions of DVD Shrink will accept an ISO as well as export one.

[megamachine]

After converting the AVI to MPEG-2, you're looking at two added steps: authoring and transcoding. You can do them one way or another. With Shrink you need to author first, then transcode. With ReJig you transcode first, then author. Both are free.

[director_dan]

I have the latest version of DVD Shrink, but i cant find any way of importing an .iso file

Does anyone know how to import an iso intro shrink?

The thing is Megamachine the softaware im using to create my lovely menu will only let me either output to dvd or/and output as an iso

i dont really want to lose the menu

cheers guys

[director_dan]

Ah my mistake my software will also output as something called, 'DVD Folders' this sounds promising so im doing it now, ill let you know what it gives me

[megamachine]

I see, then I misunderstood your original post. If there's no way to use what you have from your software, then you can try loading the AVI into TMPGEnc and converting it to a DVD compliant MPEG-2, and then follow the above steps.

[megamachine]

Good, then if you get your program to make the VIDEO_TS folder, you're golden, and you can then use Shrink to do its magic.

[director_dan]

Yeh its outputting now to a folder called VIDEO_TS lol so guess its gonna have a happy ending after all

[megamachine]

Great, glad to hear it. Shrink's the way to go.

[director_dan]

WOW! DVD Shrink is the best piece of software in the world!!!! makes it so easy

thanks a lot for your help guys.

Dan