How to compress DVD9 to DVD5? What is the besty way to copy a DVD with your home video and shrink a larger DVD9 to an ordinary DVD5? How to split a DVD9 to 2 DVD5 with the original quality?
Sometimes you want to copy a DVD9 to blank 4.7GB DVD5 disc, but your DVD9 movie is larger than 4.7 GB(DVD5 holds up), then you can only compress DVD9 to DVD5. It will lose some quality. But usually the quality is acceptable when you enjoy the compressed DVD. In this way, you can copy the main video without menu, so that you can save space on your DVD disc or HDD.
Sometimes you want to copy a DVD-9 disc but not reduce it's quality by compressing it. In that case all you can do is split the DVD-9 and create two DVD-5 disc each containing the half movie.
3Herosoft DVD Cloner
Clone DVD movie to blank DVD disc in perfect 1:1 ratio
Need a tool to backup your DVD movies to other DVD disc? 3Herosoft DVD Cloner is a perfect assistant to help you clone DVD movies to other DVD disc. It can backup DVD content as ISO image file or DVD folder in your computer and exactly clone DVD movies in perfect 1:1 ratio.
Compress DVD-9 movie to DVD-5 disc, split DVD9 to 2 DVD5
Wanna clone DVD-9 moive to DVD-5 while preserving its quality? 3Herosoft DVD cloner can compress DVD-9 movie to DVD-5 discs. Besides, it supports split DVD-9 to 2 DVD-5 discs in 1:1 ratio. With it, you can customize DVD label, set temp path, auto shutdown your computer after clone.
This DVD Cloner can help you:
- Clone DVD-9 to DVD-9, DVD-9 to DVD-5, DVD-5 to DVD-5
- Copy DVD movie to ISO file or DVD folder
- Clone ISO file or DVD folder to blank DVD disc
Process to compress DVD9 to DVD5, or split DVD9 to 2 DVD5:
- Insert DVD9 disc
Download and run 3herosoft DVD Cloner and insert the DVD9 disc you want to shrink to DVD5 in your DVD-ROM. The software will auto-detect all drives on your computer and show the information in the "Source" combo box and "Destination" combo box.

- Set the "Source" and "Destination":
Click the down list in "Source" combo box and "Destinationt" combo box, then there will pop up a message box reminding you to select target disc type. Just choose D5(4.7GB) as your selection.
Note: You may have only one DVD ROM. Just select the same DVD Drive as the " Source" and "Destinationt.
- Copy DVD9 movie to Temporary File Folder:
You can set copying DVD movie Include Video Menus or Skip Video Menus, and the Temporary File Folder you would like the DVD movie to save on your computer. Then start backing up the source DVD to your computer temporary file folder. When copying, it will display the copying progress in main interface.

- Burn movie to DVD5 disc:
After the DVD to hard disc copying process complete, it will pop up a message box telling you "Please insert an empty disc to write to.... At the same time your DVD RW Drive will be ejected. Insert your blank DVD5 disc, then click " Retry button.
Once burning progress completed, 3herosoft DVD Cloner will pop up a message box showing copy information including "Source", "Destination", "Copy mode", "Compress ratio" and "Time".

OK! The DVD9 to DVD8 copying process is simple enough that everyone can do this. Don't hesitate to download this DVD Cloner to have a try!
Supported Source:
- DVD-Video disc
- DVD-Video image(*.iso)
- DVD folder
Supported Target:
- DVD-R(W)
- DVD+R(W)
- DVD-R DL
- DVD+R DL
- DVD-RAM
- DVD-Video image(*.iso)
- DVD folder

