DVD Shrink with Extras Compulation

[sherman]

Hi I want to make a compulation DVD of the Extras from 2 or more DVD's. If I where to use DVD Shrink 3.1 How much could I shrink the Extras to fit as much as posible on A DVD-R without to much loss of quality.

Thanks
Sherman

[yoda313]

Hello,
Here's an alternate method. I made a trailer disc from several movies this way:
I ripped each trailer to the harddrive (and named them obviously). Then I authored them in Tmpgenc DVD Author. I burned them and they played just fine.

What you can do if you get more than 4.7gb in extras (which is probably hard to do unless you want every documentary and trailer in your collection) then shrink the authored disc (ie after you author load them into dvdshrink to get them back down to 4.7gb).

Hope this helps.
Kevin

[yoda313]

Hello,
I should add that unless you want to rip the whole dvd as well you don't need to compress the extras (unless they're a 2 hour documentary, but those are pretty rare- on a regular movie release that is). Just find the clips you want and extract those. You can compress them after you author the disc if you run over the single layer limit (4.7gb obviously).
Kevi

[sherman]

Thanks for your reply yoda313.

That is basically what I was planning to do. But I want to put as many Extras on 1 DVD-R from several different DVD's How much could I compress them (and fit ,more extras from more DVD;'s) before the quality loss would be two great from the compresson.

Sherman

[winifreid]

It depends a great deal on what you watch them on. If you have a big TV, you might notice more. I have a 21 inch and have used as much 55% compression and not seen any problems. Another thing that matters is how much action is in the clip. Lots of explosions and car chases are harder to compress.
But if you really want to get a lot on one disk you might re-encode at a lower resolution and bit rate and convert audio to mp3. You could get 6 hours or more that way.

[ddlooping]

Hi all.

sherman, I'd suggest you use the latest DVD Shrink, v3.2, as it has new "Quality Options" that greatly improve its output at high compression levels.

https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=155#comments

P.S: did you get your "Compilation" and "Copulation" mixed-up?

[yoda313]

Hello,

winifreid-Lots of explosions and car chases are harder to compress

If these are mostly documentaries and behind the scenes I can't imagine that's too much of a problem. Those are usually interviews and tours of sets under construction. However, if these are like the Matrix they MAY be a little more action oriented. Just give it a go and try it. Use a rw disc and you should be ok.

I'd wait on the reencoding (especially if you have a slower computer) and see just how much you can fit. You'd be suprized.
Kevin
P.S. If you have a capture card you could capture at vcd level and then you could fit a TON on a disc. Of course, your card has to remove macrovision and you have to do this in real time (though if you have a slower computer that's probably faster than reencoding )

[djelimon]

http://www.deano.dsl.pipex.com/dvdremake/dvdremake.htm

this might give you an idea as well.