In Encore 3, I can't compress an AVI to make it fit on disc.

Question

I'm not 100% certain now, off the top of my head, but I thought that version 1.5 would compress it for me automatically. I would select your rom content source (the AVI) and then build it to DVD without a hitch.
I've been trying to do the same thing in Encore 3, but the problem is that the source AVI is 5.3 Gb and it won't compress the AVI automatically to 4.7 for fitting on a standard DVD. Setting the Disc info size to 4.7 doesn't seem to help.
What can I do? How can I compress the AVI to fit it on a DVD?
Thanks in advance for any responses.
EDIT P.S. I was mistaken about ver 1.5 - it will not compress for me either. So, the question remains, is there a way in Encore to compress an avi to a desired filesize for copying to DVD disc?

Answer 1

John,
I agree with you, but still felt that I needed to rule out any form of authoring going on. Early references to using Encore for similar puzzled me.
You know, sometimes I ask too many questions, and sometimes not enough. I just went on and on, about  Aspect Ratio and PAR in another forum, thinking that the screen-cap I was seeing was in the Timeline, and we were looking at the Program Monitor. No, this was the resultant still Frame Capture, so all of the details and instructions that I had typed were moot. Duh!
Now, for archiving large AV files (though not in a form that can be directly played back), there are some "spanning" programs, that will write a file to multiple DVD-5's, or DVD-9's. That backup/imaging program that you use will probably do this, though one could not play the file, until they unarchived it to the HDD. Don't know how this would work for the OP.
Good luck to all,
Hunt