Animated titles in general have required a ton of compression but, until now, I've always managed to back up everything that I've tried to. Spirited Away is a two hour long film but, even with all audio and extras removed, it previews at just under seven GB. Even setting the main movie to still pictures only reduces it to five and change. This is totally unprecedented for me and I've read that others here have backed this one up with no problems. Would anyone offer ideas as to the cause of my situation?
I used DVD X Copy on this one, and if that can compress it DVD Shrink should definitely be able to compress it enough. You say you can get it down to 5GB or so, is that before or after compression? What's your compression % at?
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how do u compress the files, i usually just use dvd decryptor then shrink 3.2, am i already comopressing the files w/o knowing it or is there some step i'm missing?
Shrink says over 5GB after compression, with all extras, audio and menus removed AND with the main movie set to still pictures. It's more otherwise, even with reauthoring. The compression maxes out somewhere in the thirtieth percentiles I think.
Quote:why is that you thought you were using a prrogam called DVD Shrink?
Damn
Are you addressing me here and if so what do mean to ask or say by this? I can't make any sense of it.
No I was addressing phoenixuz who spoke of using DVD Shrink and then asked if that was compressing things already.
My wording may have been confusing but I was asking what he thought DVD Shrink did. It was a very newb thing to ask.
Holio
Shrink can Shrink a second time, just need the additional space on your hard drive to perform it, you can think shrink it to precisely 4.7 GB or just a little under to be safe. That way there will be no loss in quality. Just take the original shrink, and then use those files to shrink again.
Thank you so much for pointing this out. I can't believe I didn't think of it on my own, it's exactly the solution that I was looking for and shouldn't have escaped me for so long.
