DVD Shrink 3.1 - Main movie only
If all you want to keep is the main movie, must press the Re-author button:
In the left part of DVD Shrink you'll now see the following info:
You
can select the source path or disc using an Windows Explorer like dropdown list
and a button to go up one level in the directory hierarchy.
DVD Shrink will show all the available titles and menus on the selected disc.
As you want the main movie, drag and drop Title 1 to the left part of the screen (alternatively, when you open the disc in disc mode. copy the main movie - which is already preselected - using either right click - copy or control-c, then press the Re-author button, and paste the movie).
As
you can see, the New DVD you're about to create now contains Title1 - the Main
movie. On the right side you'll see the available audio and subtitle streams.
If
you select the Compression Settings tab on the right you'll see that the main
movie video stream will be compressed to 4087 MB and DVD Shrink, that is 83.3%
of its original size (so the compression factor is 100 - 83.3 = 16.7%), to obtain
a size of 4463 MB (you'll see that entire size of a title on the left side of
the window).
There are 5 audio streams in total. The DVD is available in English (audio stream 1), French (audio stream 2), and it contains 3 commentary tracks (audio streams 3 - 5). Deselect whichever streams you don't need. Note that DVD Shrink automatically adjusts the compression ratio, decreasing it as you make more room for the video by deselecting audio streams.
You can do the same for subtitle streams, but the size gain is not as impressive as when you deselect an audio stream.
As the movie still has to be compressed even when removing all but one audio
stream, we can cut out parts of the movie, like the credits, to further reduce
the size. To do this, press the Start/End button.
This
is pretty straightforward. You have two preview windows, the upper one indicating
your start position, and the lower one indicating the end position. On the right
of both windows you have some controls that allow you to set a start, respectively
end point for the movie.
You can either use the slider to set a start/end position, or use the available chapter dropdown list to select the position.
The example shown in the screenshot would include chapters 1 - 38 in the output. The movie has 39 chapters and chapter 39 contains the credits so I excluded it.
Press OK to make your selection permanent.
In
this example, we have 4 episodes on one disc. Press the Reauthor button, and
drag and drop those 4 titles from the DVD browser on the left to the right part
of the window.
If for some reason you prefer to change the order of the episodes, simply drag and drop an episode to another position in the list or use the available buttons to move a title up and down, or to delete it (that would be the X button). And of course you can also use the start/end functionality for each title.
The next step is removing audio and subtitle streams you don't need. To do this globally, click on the New DVD folder.
I
removed the English commentary track and the Spanish subtitle track.
Removing unused audio and subtitle tracks we can reduce the global compression factor to 41.8% (100 - 58.2 = 41.8).
And last but not least, you can set the audio and subtitle channel that is active by default, by right clicking on a title and selecting the proper audio and subtitle stream.
Now you're all set to start encoding
This document was last updated on January 9, 2004