help finding some good compression software

[sir_malaki]

I was wondering if there is anything close to DVD Shrink (option wise) on the MAC. I have a lot of the small DVD's from my Sony DCR-DVD301 DVD Handycam and want to mix and match the different titles/chapters to make a regular dvd. My brother showed me dvd shrink, he has the same camera and does this. What I liked was the option to see (play) the individual titles, this was really nice since you only had to rip what you wanted not the whole disc. I was really impressed by it, but I have a MAC and my old Windows machine is too old for video editing. From looking at the tools on here the only one that looked like it would (from screen caps) was popcorn. I wish it had a demo to trial version so I could see what its like. Am I wrong or can you preveiw the titles before you rip them like in DVD Shrink. If not someone should make one. DVD shrink is awsome and from what I read there is no intention to port it to MAC.

Thanks
Sir Malaki

[Frobozz]

This is a perfect use for Toast 7. It can extract the MPEGs from the Handycam's DVDs and author a new DVD. It also can do video compression to fit a DL-sized VIDEO_TS folder to burn on single-layer media.

[macuser25]

MacMall is currently selling it for $39 after rebate.

[terryj]

Frobozz, don't encourage macuser25.

[terryj]

oh, and Frobozz, when is the patch for Toast 7 coming out?
I guess it will be 7.02? 7.03?

[rumplestiltskin]

DVD Remaster will do a higher quality "shrink" than Toast. However, it doesn't do burning.

[Frobozz]

oh, and Frobozz, when is the patch for Toast 7 coming out?
I guess it will be 7.02? 7.03?

I don't know. The last I saw on the Toast forum was the first week in December. Ask me again on December 7.

By the way, I appreciate the good humor.

[macuser25]

hey now... i'm just providing info about how people can save some money on toast IF they want to buy it.

is that so wrong.

[sir_malaki]

thanks for the help - does anyone know if any of them allow you to watch the titles like in DVD shrink?

[Frobozz]

thanks for the help - does anyone know if any of them allow you to watch the titles like in DVD shrink?

I don't have a PC so I've never seen DVD Shrink. Toast does not play MPEGs although it can play QuickTime and DV videos. You can scroll through MPEGs in Toast by dragging a scroll bar under a selected thumbnail image of the movie.

I'm not sure why it matters to play the videos because you aren't doing any editing here. There are applications such as MPEG Streamclip and Capty MPEG Edit EX that will play the MPEGs and let you edit them. Toast will burn those edited MPEGs.

If you just want to play the videos then either DVD Player or VLC Media Player are your best applications to use.

[cnelson87]

One thing I like about DVD Shrink is you can chop the beginning and end off the movie before compressing and still retain chapter markers. You know what I mean - the MGM lion roaring or the Universal sunrise or the Fox spotlights. They always throw that crap on there before and sometimes after the movie. To do that on a Mac you would have to rip the movie as an mpeg and edit with MPEG Streamclip and then reauthor and then compress.

[rumplestiltskin]

Actually, MPEG Streamclip will do it with the VOBs. That being said, DVDShrink is a great app and will, as you said, do it all in one shot. (I'm a Mac user but, on my PC, DVDShrink holds a place of honor.)