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Burning and compressing for Mac?

I only use cd-rw's to save the movies that I've downloaded from the internet. Each movie is as big as 700 mb and sometimes bigger so it takes me two cd's to save the 2 parts of the movie which I think is kind of a waste. I also tried to save some songs into a cd but only about 15 songs fit in and I only have a few cd's left. My mac can burn normally but it's not the type that can compress files. Is there any application that can burn or compress files like that? I've only seen the DVD shrink… something like that and Roxio Toast, but I think it's only for DVD ripping and burning.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Two different issues: 1) To get any appreciable compression on the video files, you must sacrifice either quality (fps, visual "sharpness", artifacts, etc.) or resolution (frame size, essentially). If that is an acceptable trade-off, then you can use QuickTime Pro from Apple (about $30 if memory serves) to do the job. 2) If you want to play your CDs in a standard player, then yes, 15 songs is more-or-less the maximum. That's because standard CD players expect a standard, non-compressed format. No way around that. If you have a player that will play MP3-formatted song files on a CD (and many players do nowadays), then you're looking at more like 150 songs per CD. You can use iTunes from Apple to do the conversion (and even burn the CD).

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