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  • compress DVD video to CD size

    Posted by Saya Hillman on April 13, 2006 at 2:28 pm

    I fear this is probably an oft-asked question, but I couldn’t find any previous posts, excuse me if it’s repetitive!

    Someone wants to give me a DVD of his band (40 minutes), already edited — he just wants me to compress it so it’s small enough to put on a CD.

    I’m not sure the best way to do this. Any suggestions?

    I have FCP (no Compressor), Cleaner, QT Pro, Toast….

    Thanks!
    April

    Dorian Gray replied 20 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Dorian Gray

    April 13, 2006 at 11:14 pm

    HandBrake is a remarkably easy-to-use app for doing this, suitable for MPEG-4 output (including H.264 if you wish) in either the MP4 or AVI container. Do a two-pass encode with file size set to 700 MB and burn the resulting file to CD; should work nicely.

    https://handbrake.m0k.org

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