open DVD95Copy, the spreadsheet and the folder with the ripped files

spreadsheet is HERE or download it HERE

these are the ripped files in the folder

Only input data into the Green cells as the RED cells are automatic

insert the Target size which is 4482 in this case, and then insert the Titlesets sizes into the correct Titleset Size cell, just ignore the 0MB Titlesets for now

now insert the menu sizes as shown in (kb) from the folder

now you can enter your %'s into the spreadsheet before setting up DVD95Copy and you will see what the resulting size will be. I advise nothing less than 30% if you don't want to cause problems for DVD95Copy and any Titleset less than say 20MB should not really be reduced dramatically if at all. The same goes for menu's, anything less than 20MB keep them at 100% (No Recompression)

100% will be a setting of No Recompression and you can see that for Titleset 1's Video, I have chosen it to Fit to DVD-R and I have entered 'FIT' into the appropiate cell. Now notice the value shown in remaining which is 4214MB. This is the Target minus the other compressed Video/Menu's apart from the Fit to DVD-R Video. The size of the Video selected to Fit to DVD-R is 6464MB and the size it needs to be is 4214MB, so this works out at 65% compression rate and is shown in the actual % reduction cell. Always keep the remaining less than the size left to Fit to DVD-R. MAKE SURE you set any Titlesets of 0MB to No Recompression

you can now play with values in spreadsheet and make sure your Fit to DVD-R titles percentage value is greater than say 50%. If it's showing a value less than 0% you are asking for trouble because it's out of the legitimate limits and even settings as low as 30% are also not advised

Once you know how it works, it should only take a few minutes of using the spreadsheet to work out your ideal % settings that you should use for DVD95Copy

this is how the example spreadsheet ended up and I simply just enter those settings into DVD95Copy and press Start

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