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Old 03-31-2003, 02:18 PM
gitfiddle gitfiddle is offline
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I have a movie that I want to put on a CD, but it's one megabyte too long.

Is there any way to edit .avi movie so that it will fit onto a 700MB cd? I have Microsoft Movie Maker on my computer and have tried to use it, but I still don't think I'm doing it right. I would really appreciate the help.
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Old 03-31-2003, 02:56 PM
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Just burn it, one meg overburn should be fine. I have overburned up to 30 megs before. Just say "yes" when it tells you it needs to overburn and finalise the disk.
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Old 03-31-2003, 03:22 PM
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Alternatively, you could use VirtualDub to cut off a couple seconds of the movie.
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Old 03-31-2003, 03:25 PM
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Also, you could re-encode and bring the bit rates down a little bit. Assuming you can re-encode, of course.
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Old 03-31-2003, 03:39 PM
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You are probably trying to make a VCD. VCDs fit onto standard CD-Rs even though the size appears too large. They use a different encoding scheme than CD-Audios so there really is room. To read more about VCDs, see this section of the CD-R faq.
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