Thanks LOTR,
I was hoping you would be there, as from my reading, you look to be the knowledgeable one....

I am a little confused...
So I drag the .avi into the toast video tab, click the DVD-Video button in the disc options drawer, Standard video quality, put the disk in, click burn, and this is the reply:
"Not enough free space on this disc, 4.9 needed, 4.4 available"
I've cropped out the titles and credits, and still too big!!
The .avi is 701.2MB...

Do you know a way to make the fit to 1 DVD-R, not only for this file, but for the future also??

Thanks for your help

Amedeo