Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

I had some video I captured with iMovie sitting on an external Firewire drive for a little while. That drive was getting full and I needed to clear off some space by moving some of those iMovie projects to DVD. The problem was, one of those projects was 5.38GB, larger than what a DVD can hold. I needed some way to either compress it down or break it up so that it could fit on a single DVD or span multiple discs.

First, I compressed the project using gzip and bzip2 from the command line. Neither utility compressed the video very much, and neither compressed it to a size that would burn onto a single DVD. Enter hdiutil! (The command line analog to Disk Utility.)
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