Star Wars: Phantom Menace cant get on 1 disk

[scott015]

im using DVDShrink, and did reauthor and the MOVIE only has to be compressed to LEVEL 7 to fit... that is crazy!! iv never compressed anything that much before.... will quality suck ?

[BobK]

I don't know how the quality would be, but you could burn it to an RW disc first to see.

[Bob W]

Well lately I have been using InstantCopy for any files over 6GB. It's slow as a snail on speed but it seems to do a better job on these large compression backups.

[thayne]

I used DVD2One on this movie and it looks fine, but I did movie only with no menus and stuff

[Gurm]

The problem is twofold:

1. You've picked a big-ass movie.
2. There are a buttload of extras.

Now, if you want to just fit the movie and it STILL has to be compressed to Level 7, try:

1. Removing soundtracks you don't need (every foreign language adds another 300+MB to the image).
2. Removing director commentary tracks, etc.

- Gurm

[FoolishBrett]

I did that movie with Shrink, movie only, cropping etc.

I don't remember what level I did but it looks OK.

Sometimes it seems like some movies work differently at the same level. What I mean is that, for example, level 4 does not seem to look the same on all movies.

[Triple_Helix]

Using v. 2.3, you may be pleasantly surprised, even at level 7.

LTA

[poopyhead]

Sometimes it seems like some movies work differently at the same level. What I mean is that, for example, level 4 does not seem to look the same on all movies.

could it be because....

1) different aspect ratio of the original....obviously, WS movies overall require less bitrate than FS because there're much less pixels to encode for...even differences between WS movies...i.e. 2.35:1 (very small height) vs. 1.66:1 (as close to FS as you can get and still be WS)

2) the original DVDs are encoded at different bitrates....i.e. movie A encoded at 10 mbit/s...so 40% of that is going to be better than 40% of movie B, original encoded at 8 mbit/s

3) just the transfer itself..was it digitally remastered? when i was doing SVCD rips awhile back....at first i thought i screwed up on the quality of some movies, however..looking at the original, i knew where the quality lacked....crap in=crap out

4) also, some movies requires more bitrate than other...so you may be able to compress a DRAMA more than an ACTION movie because those fast scenes in ACTION movies will require more bitrate (hence, lower compression in DVDshrink) to be perceived as the same quality as a slow moving scene in a DRAMA