How do you compress a home video?

How do I compress a home video file to fit on a DVD?

  • I'm using DVD Architect to burn my home digital video onto DVDs, but I'm getting an error message that says there's not enough room on the DVD...Can I compress the file to fit? The footage is only just over an hour.

  • Answer:

    Chances are your video is in .AVI or .MOV format. That is raw uncompressed format. Check in the help section of your video program for compressing to MPEG or WMV format. The conversion process takes a LOT of time if you are doing this on a PC. The other option would be to buy a stand alone desktop DVD recorder (just like your VCR). They have options to compress to as much as 5 hours on a DVD or high quality at 1 hour. And it is pretty much real time stuff. The computer doesn't have to decode, then render files, audio and video. Strongly suggest the Desktop (goes with your home entertainment system stuff) DVD recorder.

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if you can convert the video onto a DVD file then you can use DVD shrink to do it, It is easy and simple

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