How to fill a disc using Instant Copy 7

[wiggy]

Hi all,

Just thought id share my experience with you when it comes to filling a disc using the above prog.

If you want to keep everything that is on the disc, just use the F5 trick and move the slider to 4.65 gig, that should fill the disc.

If you want to remove any unwanted extras, keep a note of how big the files are, and simply add that to the 4.65.

So for example, if you want to get rid of a file that is 300 meg, move the slider to 4.95 gig and so on.

I think whats happens with this prog in terms of the bug is, it doesnt increase the oupput file size when extras and so on are removed, so this is why it has to be done manually.

Cheers, Wiggy

[MackemX]

I was under that impression also regarding the stripping affecting filesize, so I tried stripping all the extras/soundtracks 1st using ifoedit and had a file of 5.97Gb with everything I wanted so I tried it with a setting of 4.32Gb in IC

guess what, it still came out 4GB!!

I think it has something to do with the ratio's of the movie and how different it is to extras

I still can't work out which way it affects it tho :confused:

I was gonna try IC predicting a final filesize of 4.5Gb with the movie at different % settings and try to see what the pattern is and also movie at same &% and extras on a low%

like you mentioned I also add at least an extra 300Mb to final output size, but I would like to get it as near to the 4.37Gb barrier without having to do it again

[valnar]

Originally posted by wiggy
If you want to keep everything that is on the disc, just use the F5 trick and move the slider to 4.65 gig, that should fill the disc.


Each disc is different. I usually use 4.5GB and sometimes its a little small, but 4.65GB would have been too big on some of my DVD's.

-Robert

[Wayne Murphy]

This could account for why i get some of my DVD Outputs being smaller then i anticipated. After i have removed the Subtitiles, etc... that i don't want i notice that the slider does infact move down. All i have been doing is moving the slider back to the maximum limit. Are you saying that i need to be moving it past the limit by the same size of the stuff i have removed ?

This seems a little odd ?

Cheers

Wayne

[fusion007]

i usally ignore the slider indicator and just use the transcoded video+audio size,obviously taking into consideration the size of the menus, works very well for me! p.s i havent had one film under 4.2 gig or over 4.4.

[MackemX]

can I add that stripping extras/sound/subs/menus has no great affect on the actual main movie Title's predicted size, I have been recording data for the last 8 movies

I have seen that the main movie Title (not including audio) will normally be 7-9%% smaller than predicted size, varies from movie to movie but always in this region

So if I'm predicted a movie Title size of 3.42GB, chances are it will be 3.12Gb-3.16GB

I now oversize mine a little more cos there is a much quicker way than running the whole process again if you go over

try reading this on how to get exactly fill a disc with less than 10MB (0.01GB) to spare as it works great when you just go over the limit and I now purposely go over the limit of a DVD-R and aim for 4.40Gb

Believe me, you will thank me later

answer here (http://www.deano.dsl.pipex.com/2big.htm)