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Ok, I have an ongoing project.  I completed it once on a DL DVD but due to the size I only got compressed video and 2 channel Audio.  I would like Video plus DD 5.1 like the sources have.  Here's the deal.

I am combining and editing 3 DVD movies into one DVD movie.  End project is about 5.5 hrs long.  Like I stated above, I did this with a Dual Layer DVD and with some video and audio compression I ended up with a decent video, with only 2 channel audio, because it was just too much to put on the disc.  Well, enter Blu-ray with 25gb capacity and I think I can pull this off.
I have the 3 DVD's ripped to the HD in .m2v/.ac3 format so I can import them, but by the time I imported all 3 movies, I was way over the BD disc capacity(49GB over the 25 GB capacity).  All 3 movies only take up 14.2gb on my HD, so I was figuring that it would be that or less once I was done cutting and editing the movies before I work the menus in and such, leaving at least 10GB of space on the disc.  How can I import them while maintaining original Video quality and 5.1 Audio and then combine them so I can output to a single Blu-Ray disc?  I know I can change transcoding settings, but what would be ideal to maintain the original product?

Thanks in advance for any help.