# I have a movie that I want to put on a CD, but it's one megabyte too long.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 31, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-movie-that-i-want-to-put-on-a-cd-but-its-one-megabyte-too-long/165527 "2003-03-31T20:18:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![gitfiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gitfiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gitfiddle)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-movie-that-i-want-to-put-on-a-cd-but-its-one-megabyte-too-long/165527/1 "2003-03-31T20:18:05Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-movie-that-i-want-to-put-on-a-cd-but-its-one-megabyte-too-long/165527/2 "2003-03-31T20:56:51Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-movie-that-i-want-to-put-on-a-cd-but-its-one-megabyte-too-long/165527/3 "2003-03-31T21:22:19Z")

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Alternatively, you could use [VirtualDub](http://download.com.com/3000-2194-10184312.html?tag=lst-0-1) to cut off a couple seconds of the movie.

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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-movie-that-i-want-to-put-on-a-cd-but-its-one-megabyte-too-long/165527/4 "2003-03-31T21:25:23Z")

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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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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-movie-that-i-want-to-put-on-a-cd-but-its-one-megabyte-too-long/165527/5 "2003-03-31T21:39:38Z")

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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](http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq03.html#S3-16-1) of the CD-R faq.