Most commercial DVD movie discs are saved on 8.5 GB DL discs (also known as DVD-9, dual-layer, or double-layer discs). If your DVD writer can only burn on 4.5 GB discs (also known as DVD-5 or single-layer discs), this presents a problem: you cannot make perfect copies of your movies because the movie is too large to fit on the smaller single-layer disc.

One clumsy solution would be to use two discs to store one movie – this is undesirable because you would have to swap discs in the middle of watching your movie. Another expensive solution would be to buy a DVD recordable drive that supports writing to DL media. This is impractical because there are many users who have drives capable of writing to only single-layer discs.

The NTI solution is to let DVD Fit compresses your original movie so that it can fit onto a single-layer disc.

NOTE: FIT DVD is only a compression tool it will not remove any type of “copy protection”. For this review we ripped the movie “The Grinch Stole Christmas” using a third party ripper. This provided us with the necessary Video_TS folder to test the DVD Fit application.

We created our FIT DVD layout by clicking on the Video Icon of the main program and selecting DVD FIT option.

We then clicked on the Import Video_TS button in the upper left of the DVD Fit window which opened the popup window where we selected our Video TS folder to import into the program. The Video TS folder began importantly immediately and once completed we were presented with the DVD Structure window; the movie information will appear as various collapsible folders in the main layout pane. We selected the main movie from within the Main Movie Folder.

We configured the Video, Audio, and Sub-picture settings in their respective tabs. In the Audio Tab we deselected the unwanted audio tracks to free up space. We also deselected all of the sub-picture titles.

Once we finished our selections we clicked on the Step 2 Button in the EasySteps Pane; our movie began parsing and transcoding. The time to complete this process will depend on the speed of your processor.

As soon as the Transcoding completed we were presented with the “Write DVD” window where we selected to write at 16X and only 1 copy and clicked on the Start Button. The writing of the disc began immediately and once completed we received the “Congratulations” window.