Hey, I'm new here so I think I'll start with a question. I'm in the process of making a DVD out of a bunch of TV clips. They are all AVI clips and they are all ~176mb in size "on my hard disk". But when I add them to my video creation using Roxio Videowave 7, They jump up to over 1.5 GB each! And I have ALLOT of these clips (about 50 or so) that I would like to fit on only a few discs (at the most 4-5). So I'm guessing that the AVI files are compressed when on my disk, but when I add them to the DVD, the software un-extracts them so that they will play on the DVD player. Is that right? And does anyone know how I can make these file smaller on the DVD but still be playable on a player (and preferably still have all the cool menu stuff)? Buying a new software is definitely doable for me, if the case leads to it.
When you convert from avi format to dvd-video format, the file is always going to end up exponentially bigger. That's a given. A way around would be to buy a dvd player that can play avi's. Then, you don't have to convert.
