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Hello, techies :

My husband has downloaded a movie for me on his laptop. It is roughly 735 MB is size.
I do not have a DVD burner on our computer.
Can I save the movie to a cd, if so, can I reduce it somehow so that it will fit onto 1 cd?
Using roxio or nero programs, can this be done ?
Thank you.

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by older mycroft

Interesting question: you see, I've never given any thought to burning a video file onto a CD using a CD writer, I've only ever used a DVD writer. Theoretically there should be no problem.

Nero (my weapon of choice) has the capability to burn to VCD - a video format CD.

Now, this is where it gets slightly tricky; it all depends on which version of Nero you have access to. Nero 7 Ultra can do this and I think Nero 6 will oblige too. Choose the option for 'crunching' the video image - you should be able to reduce it sufficently to fit onto a CD. I've used Nero 7 to put a 6.8GB film onto a standard 4.7GB DVD, without any noticeable loss of quality so you should be alright.

I personally cannot speak for Roxio, as I ditched it as soon as I saw Nero.

I believe you could also try to source some of the 800MB CDs. That would solve your problem without any worries about size.

Good luck.

by big ole jack

If not, then realize that what you're doing constitutes piracy and we here at TR do not condone or take party to illegal activity.

by yenkoracing

The movie is of our daughters wedding............ I wanted to send my sister a copy.
Thank you , G. Orwell

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