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  1. Member
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    Hello,

    I used The Film Machine with cce at 4passes to encode a HD video file of mine to DVD, but it ended up just a little too big to burn off. 108% according to imgburn.

    I can probably shrink it down with DVDShrink, but, I'd like to know the more "professional" method(s). Since it's a high quality encode. I did however try degrading the credits in DVDShrink but it wasn't enough.


    Thanks.
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    you already lost the hd part of it when you encoded it to dvd you went from 1080p or 720p to 480p. so shrinking it that last little bit(.08%) with dvdshrink shouldn't be noticeable.myself i would encode it to blu-ray with one of the tools for hd. either you have a blu-ray player now, or else you'll probably eventually get one at some time.
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    Yes, I knew that thanks. Was 720p btw.

    If I had a HD-DVD/bluray player let alone a HDTV then yes, I'd do that and wouldn't be converting to Standard DVD.
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    DVD Shrink uses a requantizing algorithm, so you won't suffer noticeable quality loss for an 8% filesize reduction. You've already done a transcode (and to a much lower resolution, at that), so being fussy about quality at this point makes little sense. Just Shrink that puppy and be done. Requantizing is a very fast operation (as opposed to transcoding), so you can get results quickly.
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