DVD Shrink, as the name suggests, has the ability to shrink the size of the DVD for the purpose of producing perfect replicas of the original. Its main advantage lies in providing copies of even those DVDs which are larger than the usual 4.7 GB. It compresses them to the size that will easily fit in to the disk of that size (4.7 GB). This software helps you in the preparation of a backup copy of a commercial DVD. Let us go into the details of the functions and features of the DVD Shrink for Windows.



You can download the DVD shrink software from the internet like any other software applications. Once you have downloaded the software you get several facilities. The main benefit of the DVD shrink for windows is its ability to compress the data to store the commercial DVD in a much smaller space.

It eliminates the superfluous material and the copying is also of a very good quality. It is not possible to access the disk itself in this program. Crossover will not allow the program see the physical drive. The built-in burn functionality will also not be usable. The entire DVD shrink for Windows will be copied in your hard drive and, as a result, you need some free hard drive space. The copying is sometimes from 4.7 GB to even 9 GB. There is the need to encode it in DVD Shrink and then prepare another 4.7 GB disc image.

If you want to access your DVD Shrink for Windows, you will need an application that will rip the DVD to your hard drive. There is the system to rip your DVD to your hard drive and a folder will be created with the name of your DVD. There will be a 'Video_TS' folder in it. The DVD Shrink for Windows that was ripped to the hard drive needs to be opened up. The 'Open Files' button has to be clicked and the 'Video_TS' folder has to be browsed.

If the files are on your desktop, you can use the file browser to access the folder 'My Mac Desktop'. The hard drive displays a few different ways in your browser. To find the name of your disc, if you have stored it in some external disc, you would need to use the '/' and 'volumes' options. Like some Mac Users, you may find this very perplexing because when you open the DVD Shrink for windows, there can be some changes in the settings.

When you click the backup button you will find a couple of options to save your work. You can save the work as a disk image which can be burned later on to a DVD Shrink for Windows. Or, you may choose any other option but now you have an operational edition of the disc you started out with in the first place. The only difference is that it is on a smaller, regular DVD Shrink for Windows now. If you want to know how to burn a disc image using disk utility toy, you need to open disk utility and open an image from the 'File' menu. After that is done, select the image in the left hand pane and click on 'burn'.

This is the standard method that can be used in case of many other applications as well. Once you know how to use the DVD Shrink for windows, you can create DVD copies in DVD Shrink for windows.