Hi everyone at the forum. It's a great spot to learn the ropes. I'm sure this will be an easy question. I am aware that burning on the outside of a disk increases the chances of a bad write. When using dvd shrink I usually go no larger than 4300MB. Am I being too conservative here. What size can I safely go up to or does it depend on media. Thanks.
If you use decent media you can fill it right up. Why fart around with crap media and the lottery of not using the outside edge when you don't have to?
I use media which costs me £10 for 25 DVD+R's. I shrink the movie to 4300mb and find the slight decrease in quality (which is practically un-noticable) is far outweighed by the fact I am not spending a small fortune on DVD+R's every month. Just thought I'd throw my two-pennies-worth in )
Thanks for your comments everyone. I'm with cbp353. I would have to pay pay 3x the price for name brand media and haven't seen a difference in picture quality yet.
ashman, As has been stated, if you are using top quality media (Ritek G04 or Verbatim) there is no real reason to back off the edges. Why do I still do it and recommend it ? Out of habit, to be on the safe side and, because, it certainly can't hurt. If you are using "fair" media, or low-end media, I believe it's a necessity. The dye tends to be thinner and more uneven toward the outside and the disc itself tends to be brittle and prone to flaking towards the edge. When using DVD Shrink, over-compresing, I suggest 1/8 of an inch of gray at the end of your green compression bar can make all the difference. It is one of the very few things that will lessen the number of coasters you'll wind up producing - If you're using even fair, muchless the bottom-of-the-barrel, "el Cheapo" media it's going to cost you in the end by producing coasters on a par so great it can boggle the minds of men. Cheap media can "skip", "Freeze", "pixelate" can refuse to play sections and just down-right refuse to play at all :-( It is fine for text, data, spreadsheets, .jpg’s and .Gif’s but when it comes to DVD-Video - BLAaatt, Ya’ll better have some of the “good stuff” on hand for that iffin’ ya want to enjoy watchin’ it ) Pete _ _X_X_X_X_X_[small]The “old man” Pete (ö¿ô) Compaq 8000, Pent 4 CPU 2.84GHz, 1GB RAM. 340GB HD, 7200 (Maxtor 120, Western 200 & 20. 4 Drives, JLMS DVD ROM, HP DVD Writer 200j, Nec 4X DVD RW ND-1300A & AXV CD/DVD-ROM. GeForce4 Ti 4200-128MB, OS– XP sp1.[/small]
Thanks ScubaPete. Sorry for not replying earlier. I'm just back from holidays. I'll take what you had to say on board. Regaards Ashman
