[MacDV] How to fill a DVD

[Erica Sadun]

At 5:01 PM -0800 11/23/02, Shirley Kehr wrote:
>On a DVD that had a 26-minute movie and a couple slide shows, only about
>half the disk was used (as determined by turning it over and looking at
>the color change).
>
>I really wanted another slide show on the DVD, but didn't know if there
>would be enough room. In this case, should I have assumed that the movie
>would fill about 2 GB and then add up the original file sizes of the
>slides to see how many I could fit in the other 2 GB?
>
>Or, does iDVD compress the slides so that they don't take up anything
>close to their original sizes?

Slides take up *very* little space on a DVD -- Erica