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Originally Posted by Peerless  ...I chose to let Nero reduce the quality to long play (3382 kbits/sec) and it went from 4.45GB to 3.1GB...this says to me that a 1.37 GB file is going to show ~ the same resultant file size reduction (~30%), which make it transcode to about 6.1GB |
It's not always a simple 1:1 correspondence--depending on what codecs were used in the original AVI file and other factors, I suppose, different files can be compressed by different amounts. Despite your calculations, I have just finished successfully burning that 1.37GB AVI file, with no edits and compressed at 3470 kbit/s (actually I just had Nero Vision fit it to disk automatically, and that's what it took), onto a 4.37GB DVD-5, so it can be done. Just when you think you know Nero, it hands you another surprise.
BTW, I recommend using Nero's quality setting "Automatic (fit to disk)" rather than choosing long play/extended play etc., because that way Nero will set the maximum bitrate possible, leading to better-looking results.