[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Hey, I've got some video files of me and some mates just generally mucking around

We've decided that this is the end of our little "series" and want to get the six "episodes" onto a DVD. The original files are in AVI format, and so I converted them to MPG, but when I add them to Windows DVD Maker (sophisticated, I know) it says only the first to will fit! The first is about 1.6GB and the second 1GB, so even a little 4.7GB DVD should take them both happily with ample room for menus.

Thing is I want to compress them somehow (Total size = 6,767,900kb, about 1 and a half 4.7gb discs) so I can fit them all onto one DVD with a menu giving an episode selection.

If this is a different format, or a quality loss compression I don't mind i just want the bleedin things on one disc WDM reckons I need 3?! What's that about.

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Ok, I need a program that will let me shrink the file without doing anything else like burning it. I tried Ashampoo Shirnk & Burn 3, but that only lets you shrink and burn in one go. I need to shrink all the files so I can then open them with Windows DVD Maker and do my stuff

cheers, Ollie.

[philthomas]

You can put the original avi files into Nero Vision (free if you have Nero full vers) or use ConvertXtoDVD (not free) .... both of these will allow creation of menus.
If the resulting DVD vobset is greater than 4.38gb, you will need a dual layer disk.

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Ok i'll try that if my current little adventure doesn't work, I've used Ashampoo to shrink it and put it all together without a menu, then I'll use a freeware splitter to seperate them again, and import the now smaller files to WDM.

(The reason I didn't want the menu added by Ashampoo is that they're not as nice looking, theres some surprisingly good ones included with WDM, plus you have the ability to edit the background image and the audio that plays, it's severely underated as a program.)