Sunday, November 30, 2008

Learn how to use DVD shrink

By Ethan Hunter

DVD Shrink is one of the most popular software applications meant for burning DVDs. It is extremely useful for copying movies and it involves no expenditure at all; it is absolutely free. This exclusive software program is used for making copies of DVDs because most of the regular DVD movies do not fit into the usual 4.7 GB disc. DVD shrink software has the capability to shrink the DVD shrink to a size that will fit into a regular DVD. It can reduce the size of the contents by compressing them or erasing the superfluous portions.

In order to learn the various steps of how to use DVD shrink, you must first know that you will need to have certain things like the DVD burner, DVD shrink programs, DVD movie backup, and DVD burning program Nero besides a blank DVD. Then you need follow some steps to use the DVD Shrink program.

The next step is to start DVD Shrink and select the 'Open Disc' option. From the box that you see, you have to choose the DVD drive with your disk as the second step. You will now see the DVD name in the brackets. The third step is to press the OK. As soon as you do that, it will start reading the DVD and in the right hand column it will start showing the movie breakdown list.

The next step is to press Re-author option in the top menu because you cannot fit all this on your blank DVD. Now you will see the 'main movie' option in the right hand column and a file under this option. The fifth step is to drag this file has to the left column. The size of the file is normally more than 4700 MB and needs compression. These are the basic steps of the method of how to use DVD shrink.

The Shrink software usually compresses the movie and copies it in the new DVD without the encumbrances that accompanies it like foreign language subtitles, etc. You need to select 'back up' option in top menu.

If Nero is installed, then Shrink DVD will burn the movie to any blank DVD. This is how you use DVD shrink. The software will prompt you to replace the actual DBD disk and replace it with blank DVD. When the Nero is not installed, Shrink DVD will make an image file for the DVD so that you can burn it later. The next step is to choose a target for backup. If the Nero is installed, the burner can be the target for selection. If the computer does not has Nero installed, you can select any file location. As OK is pressed, the process starts.

For better quality, you have to click the 'perform deep analysis' button in the 'quality settings tab' option. Once you click this, it ensures better quality of DVDs. However, you must know that if the DVD to copy contains data below 4.7 GB, you really do not require the DVD Shrink. But, there is no harm in learning to use DVD shrink because it gives you opportunity to make copies of even those DVDs, which are larger than that 4.7 GB limit.

To figure out the size of the DVD, you just have to click on 'my computer', then right click the disk option, and select properties. You can then decide whether to use the DVD shrink program depending on the size of the DVD to be copied. - 16089

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