Audio in Menus and DVD file Sizes

Hi
I'm remaking a DVD from scratch, from a DVD which was made in a different DVD authoring program. The DVD size of the original is 1.9Gb. They had 10 audio tracks each in their own menus. The audio tracks played in full.
Now when I add an audio track to a DVD Studio Pro, standard menu I set the duration of the menu to the length of the Audio track. This results in the menu size increasing which then takes my DVD well over the 4.7Gb file size once all the tracks are entered the same way.
Is there any other way of having audio in a menu, that doesn't take up so much room? It seems crazy considering the audio files are 4-8Mbs. I guess it's having to render the video as well.
Thanks
Dave Motion

Is there any other way of having audio in a menu, that doesn't take up so much room?
Yes. Use Compressor to encode your audios to Dolby 2 (AC3). Take any of the existing AC3 preset in Compressor and change the following settings to keep your audio level:
Encoding Preset: None
Dialog Normalization: -31
Hope that helps !
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