I am in the process of making a DVD using video I shot this summer with my camcorder, but since it was a new camcorder, I had the video set at the highest quality. My DVD size is 1.8 GB too big. Does anyone know of a way of reducing the size of an MPEG file so I can fit it all on one DVD? Is there any freebie software I can download to help with this?
Thanks!
2006-12-26 13:56:59 · 2 answers · asked by Chalkbrd 5 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Camcorders
I have a Sony DV camcorder that writes to a hard drive. I have a series of videos that I took this summer that are all on the same theme and I would like to fit them all on one DVD. I'm using Sonic MyDVD software and it says that the size of my files are 1.8 GB too big. There really is no content I can cut out that much content without losing something important.
The camera has 3 settings for the quality of the videos and I had it set on the highest (which was the default) so all of the videos are fairly large. I used the program mentioned in the first post, but, since I don't have Nero, I can't get it to burn to a DVD now. I'm downloading the demo of Nero, but on dial-up, I'm looking at another 7 hours before the download finishes. I was hoping for something simpler.
2006-12-27 11:25:46 · update #1
It is not clear if you have a DV camcorder and you made a DVD out of it, or if you have a camcorder that records directly in DVD.
Professional DVDs use a bit rate of about 6 Mbit/s. If you have the original DV try to re-encode at about that rate. If it is already in MPEG, my recommendation is to just "cut" material and don't skimp on the quality. An other alternative is to record on a two-layer DVD; double the space and you don't need to compromise on quality.
2006-12-26 19:16:38 · answer #1 · answered by TV guy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can go to http://www.afterdawn.com. they have a program called dvdshrink that will do exactly what you are looking to do.
2006-12-26 14:03:18 · answer #2 · answered by Little anionyx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋