Hi, Someone I know has made an a video of a friend's wedding using Windows Movie Maker and eventually he has made it into an 8.5GB .avi file. He wants to be able to shrink it down so that it'll fit onto a standard 4.7GB DVD disc. Can anyone guide me on the steps to do this please? Any help will be most appreciated, thanks in advance.
DVD Shrink can reduce a VOB set changing its compression specification (bitrate of the VOB MPEG-2 compression). But what type of movie did that program made? I think WMV, not VOB. The size is not much important. Size=quality (bitrate). Usually 800 MB = 80' VCD (CBR) = approx 55' SVCD (VBR) and 4.7 GB = approx 155' DVD (VBR). A suggestion: since it's a home-made video, probably you don't need dolby surround, very high resolutin and so on.. Convert that (WMV?) to MPEG-1 . After that, 'author' it to a DVD image. 470' movie fit on a DVD-5 (10 MB x minute).
halo13, does DVD Shrink allow you to open up .avi files then? I tried opening the avi file with DVD Shrink and it gives me an invalid file error.
i suggest nero for the .avi...but if you are wanting to shrink it you may want to try this guide: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/avi_to_dvd_avi2dvd.cfm after doing the guide....instead of using dvd decrypter to burn you may want to open dvd shrink and go under "file" then to "Disc Image" then select the iso image that you made with the guide...this should bring up a window that analyzes your video file...then you will be able to burn it while having it able to fit onto a dvd-5(the 4.7gb dvd)
1) For a test run, try DVDSanta (just paste the avi and transcode). 2) If it can actually fit, then try use DivxToDVD to convert the avi into DVD compliant format and burn with Nero. My best advice? Fit onto 2 DVD5s. Good luck!
This is becoming a little long... I would suggest to: 1) convert WMV ---> mpeg for DVD (M2V+audio) wich your favorite encoder 2) 'play' with the bitrates set on your encoder, lowering them until the movie will fit on a 4.7 GB DVD This is what DVD Shrink does. It loads a set of VOBs and re-encode them applyng a different, and smaller bitrate, to achieve the desired compression. Of course, there's a [bold]minimum bitrate[/bold]. If you cannot fit your movie into a DVD-5 even using the smallest accepted bitrate, you're forced to split it into more DVDs. But, again, the "size" is not determined by the WMV's one, but by the M2V's one you make by re-encoding the WMV movie (WMV -> M2V+WAV/DTS/AC3...) (so than size DVD = (about) size M2V, apart a small add-on due to the audio stream(s) and to some supplementary stuff...).
