DVDshrink overload

[flaninacupboard]

so we've all seen the question, and all seen the answer. if you run it through shrink and it's still too big, you run it through again. what happens if it's STILL too big? i'm backing up chasing amy, which has all the extras from the criterion lasers. i'm doing a disc with just the movie (needs about 9% shrinkage to fit) and a disc with all the extras. decided easiest thing to do is set all extras to no compression and compress the hell out the movie. ran it through, 5.something gigs. ran it through again, 4.8 gigs, so i am now running it a third time

What's the most number of times you've run a title through shrink?

[winifreid]

I am not an expert, but I have never heard of running a dvd through Shink more than once. If you set the compression to automatic, it will compress to the correct size. Also, it makes more since to use higher compression on the extras, leaving more space for the main movie.

[Shocker Milwaukee]

He wants two separate discs, Win. That means one disc backed-up with the movie fully compressed & non-functional (set main movie to Still Pictures & deselect all audio/subtitle streams for it). The second disc would have all extras fully compressed & non-functional, leaving the maximum amount of space available for the movie & the menus (which are still functional using the above Full Disc backup scheme).

What level of compression is applied to the different sections of the DVD? If extras are set to Still Pictures, Shrink's compression engine maxes out on the main movie & it's still too big to burn, I would consider doing "movie only" re-author for the movie-only disc (you can always check out the menus on your "extras only" disc.)

[wulf109]

Download a demo of CloneDVD. It allows you to put movie on one disk and all the extras on a second disk,both with functional menus. In fact you can split the disk up anyway you want. Demo is good for 30 days.
In my opion CloneDVD is the easiest way to split a disk and keep the menus.

[Nilfennasion]

Does CloneDVD allow you to make a disc with only the menu and a couple of soundtracks, and keep menu fuctionality?

[aero]

Download a demo of CloneDVD. It allows you to put movie on one disk and all the extras on a second disk,both with functional menus. In fact you can split the disk up anyway you want. Demo is good for 30 days.
In my opion CloneDVD is the easiest way to split a disk and keep the menus.

DVD Copyware also does this very easily.