Fitting larger video files onto DVDs?

I'm working on a project, videos + stills but mostly videos from a week's holiday (in Wales -- beautiful country, by the way, great people, great food and beer -- highly recommended!  And of course great scenery with the little mountain railways, including one to the top of Mount Snowdon, but I digress, sorry).
The finished project will be about 1½ hrs long, but so far I have a completed video (.m2t) for each of 4 days, with the following sizes:- 1.26  4.50  4.66  2.98  = 13.4GB
Originally I'd been wildly optimistic and hoped to fit the whole week onto 1 DVD, clearly impossible without destroying the quality.   I do have a Bluray player and my pc can also record Bluray, but I don't want to use this as the people I'd like to send copies to don't have Bluray players.
Will I then have to accept that I'll have to make separate DVDs for the larger movies, ie the 4+ GB ones?   It's no big deal, and in fact will save me having to learn and practise making menus (lazy! only kidding).
I've seen on the web software for 'shrinking' videos to size to fit DVDs but they probably ruin the quality?
Thanks for help with this.
Brian

Brian
Good morning.
Are you saying that your burner does not burn Blu-ray or are you saying that Premiere Elements burn to is not recognizing your Blu-ray DVD CD burner? I think you said burner is not spec'd for Blu-ray, but just wanted to make sure.
Premiere Elements does not have a burn to folder for Blu-ray, but what you might consider:
a. Burn to Folder for Publish+Share/Disc/AVCHD with Presets = H.264 1920 x 1080i Dolby DVD
b. Take the BDMV Folder from that and put it on a Blu-ray disc with a program such as ImgBurn.
We could also think about the Phantom burner Premiere Elements combo approach to getting a disc image. But we will save that for later. It does work with Premiere Elements 11 Windows 7 64 bit, but there is a bit of a twist to it.
Best if you have BD-RE so that you can reuse the disc if necessary.
I have one Blu-ray DVD CD burner and its internal type. So, I do not have any first hand information on preferred external ones. When I have looked, the ones I likes were out of my price range (most are). What I once thought about doing was buying an internal one (one of the bargins/sales) and an enclosure and making my own "external" Blu-ray DVD CD burner. That is essentially an easy assembly and nothing high tech.
Whatever you buy, make sure you can return it if Premiere Elements does not recognize it or has other problems with it.
ATR

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