Why are all my movies too big

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  1. silver84

    silver84 Member

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    I'm new at the whole burning DVD's so try and help me out here.
    I have a burner, and a bunch of DVD+R's, and all that good stuff, but everytime I try to burn a movie I have, it says it's way too big to burn When I look at the properties of the movie, it says it's only around 700mb (usually) but when I put it in Sonic MyDVD, it says it's around 7GB. What do I have to do to shrink it, and transfer my movies from my computer, to DVD's that I can watch through a DVD player?
     
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    sly_61019 Senior member

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    First of all you should read the guide on the first page of the dvd forum. Secondly, yes almost all movies are too big to just burn to a dvd. You need to use a program like dvdshrink (free program) to shrink the movie then burn to a dvd.
     
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  3. silver84

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    what kind of files work in dvdshrink, and can you convert other files so that they work in dvdshrink?
     
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    vob files only, which are found on a dvd.
     
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  5. ABMone

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    Sonic My DVD always over blows the size to a redicoulus size

    are you doing video clips to dvd or what?
     
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    Use DVD Shrink to compress as suggested and also read through the forums
     
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    yeah I'm trying to burn video clips, and movies onto DVD's but I can't fit them and every program I use says it's the wrong kind of file to shrink
     
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    DVD Shrink is pretty good. It is free, and lets you edit out all the extras. It also has built in decryption.
     
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