Where can I find DVD Shrink?

http://www.dvdshrink.org/where.html

If you would render the output in SB using mpeg1, you can reduce the quality slightly to get more time on the dvd. At the lowest quality setting (37%) , you can get two hours of program material on a dvd. You can adjust the quality to make sure your material will fit. I'm not sure but I think you can adjust the quality in MyDVD also. Check it out.

According to screenblast properties the video is only 3.7 Gigs. The blank DVD is 4.7. I don't understand why it wont fit. I even tried saving the video as MPEG2 and it still didn't fit. What else can I do to get the movie burned to a DVD? I would prefer not using any 3rd party software.

The original post stated that the time was 1hr30min. If it was rendered at full quality, then it will not fit on a dvd. The quality would have to be reduced by some small amount to make it fit on the 4.7gb device. I'm not sure where the 3.7gb comes in but I seem to recall that MyDVD did some strange things. If you read this forum, you will see that MyDVD it not very well liked among the users here because of its' strange actions. Sony really made a poor choice with that program. Especially linking it to a fine program like MS3. There are many other choices for the dvd burning process with a couple being Ulead DVD Movie Factory 3 and DVD Lab. They both have fully functional trial packages. Then you can render to mpeg with SB MS3 and create the dvd with the other program.
Some other things can make a project larger than expected are transitions/effects/audio .

It won't fit because MyDVD is a piece of garbage, it will only render (re-render, in fact) FULL quality with LPCM audio, which takes up a lot of space.

It appears that when you rendered the video in Screenblast, you rendered with MPEG audio. MyDVD was really a bad choice to include with screenblast, as MyDVD does not allow any options when creating trhe DVD. It will always re-render to highest quality settings with LPCM audio, so the most you will fit on a DVD is 1 hour's worth of video.

You really should not render the DVD folders with myDVD then use DVD Shrink on top of that, as you will have 3 generations of MPEG2 encoding on that file, and I believe quality would suffer greatly.

The Sonic site has a knowledge base article that goes into a lot of detail as to what may go wrong. Just search on gray.

Suzan

One would expect there to be some degradation, but it is not discernible to my eye on a 57 inch TV. But everyone has to do what they are comfortable with.

What product do YOU use to author DVD's. (For the record, I gave up on MyDVD after my first two discs turned out to be coasters). Also, what's the process you go through to create a DVD? Do you render to AVI and then use those in your DVD authoring program? Thanks

James