Encoded DVD Is At 8.57gb - Won't fit on DVD9

[Brent.M]

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.

[ricky1756]

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.

[Brent.M]

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.

[tomlee59]

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.