[vilas527]

Hi all,

I have a few files I need to burn to CD. Problem is, they are over 700MB.

DVD burning is out of the question, as I do not have a DVD burner.

They are avi files, so I can not split them into 700MB chunks using mpeg splitters.

Short of re-encoding them all to a smaller size, how can I burn them to multiple disks? Is there an application that can do this? Or can I split them somehow?

Thanks.

Vilas

[arcticmac]

I haven't got much experience with compressing AVIs, but you might try making compressed disk images of the files and then burning those... it's a trick I use when doing backups. It's especially nice cause you can get your file(s) out again without copying the compressed file to your HD and uncompressing (like you'd have to do with a .sit file for example...)

just an idea... alternately, if you just need this for transportation, I think all the stuffit apps, maybe disk copy, and probably one or two other extra apps have file splitting options, but that would require them to be reassembled at the destination, so you wouldn't want to use that method for storage.

[Uncle Skeleton]

lossless compression apps like Stuffit are designed for text documents. You won't get much compression on any media files, and you certainly won't get ANY from highly compressed media files like DivX.

You can split your movie with the cut/copy/paste functions of QuickTime Pro (remember to choose "Self Contained Movie" in the Save As dialog).

If you're less than 2.8 MB over (or so), you can get that space by burning the disk in ISO 9660 file format.

[vilas527]

Originally posted by Uncle Skeleton:
lossless compression apps like Stuffit are designed for text documents. You won't get much compression on any media files, and you certainly won't get ANY from highly compressed media files like DivX.

You can split your movie with the cut/copy/paste functions of QuickTime Pro (remember to choose "Self Contained Movie" in the Save As dialog).

If you're less than 2.8 MB over (or so), you can get that space by burning the disk in ISO 9660 file format.

Awesome! I'm using Quicktime Pro to trim the files right now, and it appears to be working. Thanks a ton!