No matter what DVD-to-DVD-R compressor or transcoding software you use, MenuShrink will improve the quality of the backup. The scheme is simple - by replacing the animated menus with still picture some more free space is recovered. This free space is then used for the actual movie, resulting in higher average bit rate thus giving you better image quality.What is surprising is the amount of space that can be saved. For example The Star Wars Trilogy (Episodes IV, V, VI) has menu structures of roughly 500 megabytes for each disc. At the MenuShrink homepage (no longer exist) there were reported savings of over 2000 megabytes! Now as the net capacity of a single layer DVD recordable disc is about 4.3 gigabytes, the amount of space saved by shrinking the menu is substantial, and may result as an dramatic improvement to the overall quality.

Best of all - MenuShrink is free, and extremely easy to use - download it form HERE. The guide is yet to be converted to our new site platform, but you can read it from our archive in HERE.