Another DVD burning thread...

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Ok, I'm trying to burn Season 1, disc 1 of The Office (British version, for those who care) and after I've run it through the whole DVD Shrink process, it still doesn't quite fit onto a standard DVD+R disc (even after deselecting all the possible "extra" files that I don't absolutely need). My burner is pretty basic and doesn't burn double layer discs so that's out of the question. I'm surprised Shrink cannot find a way to compress the 3 hours worth of shows (it's six shows at 30 mins apiece). So I have two questions:

1) Is there anything else I can do to compress this a bit more to make it fit and

2) If I can't do that, is there a way I can just split the shows up and burn 3 on one disc and 3 on another? I'm not sure which files i have to select from the ones Shrink stores on your hard drive in order to do this.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Also, if someone could answer before like 6 pm EST, that would be pretty cool.

[Donovan]

I ran into the same problem when I tried to copy that disc. I decided to use DVD Lab to reauthor two discs with 3 episodes on each, complete with new menus. If you look at the directory of the disc you'll see 6 large VOB files that represent each episode. You can drag them into whatever DVD authoring software you have available.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Sweet, I'll try that. And you came in in the nick of time as well, as I'm about to close up shop. RACK YOU.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

If you want to stick with DVDShrink, you can split the DVD into two disks or shorten the movie by selecting the main titles in the editing menus, and setting a start and finish time.

I've done this with longer movies to chop off the opening and closing credits to improve quality.

[Donovan]

That works for a regular movie, but it gets complicated when you're talking about a disc with six episodes of a tv series (each considered a main title).

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

That's just as easy. Seperate the titles and even do a little back and front editing.

A compression rate of 65% is not bad, although I like to shoot for at least 75% when I can.

In DVDShrink, you need to "Re-author".

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

I'm fairly new to DVD shrink, and I completely looked over the Re-Author option the first time around. I couldn't believe how easy it was to split it up. Just dragged the files over and it was simple as that.

Thanks dudes.

[Donovan]

I'm glad you got it to work.