From avi to dvd

Hi I would like to burn a playable dvd with a movie in .avi format.
avi is 1.7 GB large, once imported in idvd is larger than 9 GB. How can I shrink it to fit a single layer DVD?
Thank you
Filippo

Hi fo,
soo, we're in trouble: iDVD just accept files of max 120min length....
iDVD is "just" an authoring app, creating from dv videos, stills and music some marvelous goodlooking video DVDs....
iM is an edit app.. not a shrinker...
I do own DVD2one, which IS a shrinker... but it expects a dvd or an .img of a dvd...
these "shared" music, video, dvds are not sooo popular on Macs... because, many people CREATING such stuff and livin' from do it on Mac...
there's a free tool called ffmpeg, but that is not a beginners toy... it allows to set bitrates manually to make even 12h fit on one dvd... ok, looks horrible, but possible....

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Hi all, first of all I'm a first timer here and I apologize if this is the wrong area for this topic (So many categories and I don't know where to post this, so I went for a place which has the most recent post activity)
I'm a new mac user and have been researching for the best, most importantly, fastest avi to dvd movie burner. I have a new mac pro 3.0ghz and would really love to take advantage of this by using the best software available. As I'm typing this, I'm testing Xilisoft DVD Creator trial (yes, I dl'd the intelmac version) and it's been running for 45minutes now with 68% done so far. Now, I'm not completely sure if this is slow, average, or fast for my system. This is where (hopefully) some of you guys can help me out with suggestions, advice, etc. So many software out there that I'd rather hear from you guys.
Also, the avi that's currently burning is only 2000mb.
Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks a bunch.

Visualhub (google it) is a nice converter app to get from avi to dvd structure. Then you can burn w/Disc Utility or Toast or... (Converting via Toast is a bit slower -at least on my machine.) Toast is a nice burner app (I use it consistantly, and never use my internal for anything other than copying disc to disc w/ Toast or doing reinstalls of the OS itself), and it will convert files, but Visualhub will do more in the conversion area. As far as the fastest burner, any Mac built-in is speed-controlled. I use a flashed external Pioneer which will run at a much higher speed than my internal, and also is able to read/work with discs from any zone. The Pioneer 111 needs a pc to flash it, but is a very good and fast burner, and fairly cheap to buy w/an enclosure. Also, use good media (I use Taiyo Yuden, but any high-end media should do) to avoid making coasters.

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DVD from .avi files?
The .AVI format is just a wrapper for many different ways of storing audio/video - some 'flavors' work in iMovie/iDVD and some don't.
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I have a G4/500mhz and I bought a OWC Mercury 1.2ghz processor upgrade and also bought 2x's 512 ram = 1gig(maxed out)
I'm a Virgin @ making movies from .avi files need help bad!
Now I tried to burn a .avi using Toast it would start to Encode and everytime the encoding would get towards the end Toast would crash, when I put the .avi into iDVD it said it was to large to fit onto a DVD as I stated above this is all new to me.
I even made a seperate Account for burning the .avi to DVD thinking that it was using a lot of Ram and Processor and if anything came up example: Software Update, System Optimizer, any tool my Mac would give me a kernal panic and I would let my Mac run overnight so no one would try to use the Mac,
my main question is what can I do or is there anything that I can I do so I can burn .avi's to DVD using my system?
I talked to a friend of mine he has a PB G4-133mhz and does this all the time
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iDVD will not work with PC-based .avi media; you would need to convert it to dv I(f that is possible) in order for iDVD to work with it.
You may want to post in the iDVD forum; I could not begin to tell you whether or what you would need to convert it, or if indeed to is possible without substantial loss of quality.
If you can open the file in iMovie, you may be able to export it to iDVD.
If you friend does exactly this, I would suggest you ask him/her the precise software/procedure being used.
"..there is also an application AVI->QuickTime that can convert AVI files to QuickTime .MooV files on the Macintosh. .." I found this HERE, doing a quick google for ".avi format"

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2nd Problem solved...again, by searching the forums and culling, culling.
The solution is to import the original footage from iMovie into quicktime, then open with FCP.
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I tried to call Apple Care since I'm within my 90 day support window, but of course they are closed. I'm figuring that I'm going to have to take this into an Apple Store, but thought I'd see if anyone has any ideas. Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks.

According to Apple, Win 7 64bit is supported with Bootcamp 3.0. If bootcamp 3.0 is available; I could not find it anywhere on Apple's website. It appears the most recent version is 2.2. The only place I could find 3.0 is not on Apples website and it's a questionable source so I won't post it here.
It may just be a matter of time before Apple makes it available. I'm not suggesting you wait, however if the install disk can't be used, I'm not too sure where u could go from there. Calling Applecare might work.
If you do a simple google search using the terms 'download bootcamp drivers windows 7' u will see what I was referring too.
Here's what I found from Apple (It doesn't specifically mention 64bit however just win7): http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3920
This is not from Apple, but specifically addresses whether they support win7 64bit: http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/31/boot.camp.win.7.64.support/
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It is because when you have a problem you (customers) go running to the store and want to take up the time of the reps to fix it. Other carriers have third parties that deal with technical support and those locations are few and far between. VZW provides this directly through their stores. Also, when you subsidize a $650 and pay $200 VZW has to pay $400. Your monthly service fee doesn't begin to scratch the surface of paying that back. Not with all the money that is put into the network and its improvements.
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