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Copy full DVD movie disc to a DVDR using CloneDVD
We've seen a massive amount new of tools to appear that allow users to backup DVD movies to a single DVD-R or DVD+R disc in the last couple of years. Some of them simply suck. Some of them are mediocre, offering nothing new or nice or even cheaper price than the competition. Some tools cherish the flexibility, some tools the simplicity, etc. CloneDVD 2 from Elaborate Bytes is one of the best compromises at the moment for people who are looking for simple user interface, but also certain amount of flexibility -- and of course, a decent picture quality.
The Goal?
The goal of this guide is to back up a single DVD_9movie to a single layer DVD-R or DVD+R disc, using CloneDVD 2 as our transcoder (the thingy that quickly compresses a movie that takes more than 4.36GB of space to fit into one 4.36GB blank DVDR disc) . We're going to keep all the menus and extras on the disc as well as, obviously, the main movie as well. Guide, however, allows us to get rid of "unwanted" audio and subtitle tracks found on the DVD, if needed.
The requirements
First of all, as always with DVD to DVDR guides, it is highly desirable that you have a DVD recorder, otherwise there's very little point of actually completing this guide, unless you wish to prepare for the future when you might have one and store the DVD images to your massive 2TB HDD until then
Whether you have a DVD recorder or not, you need to have some form of DVD drive installed on your PC anyway to read the DVD-Video files from your DVD disc.
Secondly, you must have at least 10 to 15 gigabytes of free HDD space to rip the original files to your harddrive and then transcode them to fit on a single DVD-R (or DVD+R, obviously they're both the same size) disc.
Then, for this guide, you need to have these tools installed into your PC:
· DVD DECRYPTOR
· CLONE DVD 2
DVD Decrypter is needed because CloneDVD 2 doesn't support decrypting CSScopy protected DVDs and DVD Decrypter, which is freeware, can handle this task.
Lets begin..
the process starts with inserting your DVD into a DVD drive and launching the DVD Decrypter
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DVD Decrypter
Now when you've got your DVD Decrypter open, you should go to the Mode menu and change the mode to File
Now, in the right-hand side panel, you should see a list of DVD's contents. Use your mouse and your shift key to select all of the files shown (remember to scroll down and select the files at the bottom of the list as well) . Also, make sure that the path DVD Decrypter has selected for the files to be ripped to, is suitable for your requirements -- this path (and the information of how much free space that drive has) is shown on the left-hand side panel.
NOW! PLEASE LOOK AT THE BOTTOM-RIGHT CORNER OF THE DVD DECRYPTER'S WINDOW! IF this value is less than 4 700 000 KB, you shouldn't be using this guide at all, but rather use the DVD-5 to DVDR
Now, simply click the big icon (the arrow pointing from the disc to HDD) and the ripping should start. This will take anywhere between 3 and 30 minutes, depending on your DVD drive, your HDD and the disc itself. Slightly scratched DVDs will take a lot longer time as DVD Decrypter tries to overcome the inevitable read errors found on those discs.
After a while, you should see a messagebox stating that the ripping has been completed. After that, you can close the DVD Decrypter and launch CloneDVD 2 .
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CloneDVD 2
Now, CloneDVD 2 's basic user interface is very, very clean and simple. There are no preferences available to tweak, no difficult selections on front page, etc. Just three main buttons and that's about it
For our guide, we now need to select the option that says Clone DVD . Let's click it now.
Now, you should see the second screen of CloneDVD 2 to appear. It looks rather empty at first, as we haven't selected any video files yet. Now, click the orang-y button next to the textbox that says DVD video files .
Select the ripped video files
Clicking that button opened a new file selection box. With this box, you should locate the directory where DVD Decrypter copied your video files from the DVD disc . Now, to be more precise, you need to get into that directory's sub-directory called VIDEO_TS and select that and click OK .
DVD Information
After you've done that, CloneDVD quickly analyzes the contents of the ripped DVD and shows the structure of the ripped DVD in this window. The red-yellow-green bar at the bottom of the window indicates how strongly the ripped DVD needs to be compressed in order for it to fit to a single DVDR disc. If the Quality percentage is lower than 50%, it indicates that the encoding might cause bit weak picture and in later steps, you should remove as many of the unnecessary audio and subtitle streams as possible.
Don't touch to any of the checkboxes, leave them all selected, unless you know exactly what you're doing -- after all, we're trying to make here a full copy of a DVD disc, not a copy with material removed from it.
Now, simply click Next .
Audio and subtitle settings
On this page, I recommend that you go through every single Title listed on the left-hand side, clicking the Title number and checking its audio and subtitle streams. This is not required if you wish to keep everything as it is on the DVD, but highly recommended if the quality percentage on previous page was lower than 60% or so.
If you're about to remove audio tracks, remember that each title is typically a separate entity -- normally the longest one is the main movie and the shorter ones (time is indicated in the brackets after the title number for each title) are normally extras on the disc (ínterviews, menus, trailers, etc) .
As a thumb rule, if there's an audio available in the language you prefer, in format that states AC-3/6 , that's the one you should leave selected and unselect the other ones. If there's no such audio, the one you should opt to use instead is AC-3/2 . These are the very basic audio formats that DVDs use (AC-3/6 is the DD5.1 surround audio and AC-3/2 is the DD2.0 stereo audio) and that all DVD players need to support. Opting to preserve only DTS audio tracks and to remove all the other tracks might prove to be rather unwise selection, since you normally need to have a separate DTS-capable decoder or amplifier to play DTS audio at all.
Also, remember that very often the main movie (the longest playback time) has the most audio selections. It doesn't matter if you select AC-3/6 for this title and AC-3/2 for the others (in very many cases, the "others" that are normally extras found on DVDs, don't even have 5.1 audio available) , the disc will work anyway.
After you've tweaked (or left untouched) the selections on this page, click Next and we'll get to the next window.
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Selecting The Output Method
As CloneDVD 2 supports burning the DVD-/+R discs itself, some people prefer using that option since its rather convenient to burn the files directly from the same program that created the files in the first place.
But then again, there are people that prefer using other methods for burning -- for whatever reason; some people like to make more than one backup at a time of the same movie, some people like to have facility to validate the burning results and some people simply like other burning tools too much
We're going to handle both methods here, the direct burning to a DVDR disc and the creation of DVD-Video files that can then be used by various DVD burning tools, such as Nero , etc.
Output method #1: Burn to DVDR with CloneDVD
Click the DVD Writer button in Output method box. Then, make sure that the correct DVD drive is selected in the DVD writer box. Adjust the preferred speed value if you wish to, but the maximum should be good for most of the people.
Finally, make sure that the directory CloneDVD 2 suggests as a temporary video file storage has at least 4.38GB of free space in it . If it doesn't have that, change the Temporary directory for video files value to something that has enough free space for the temporary files.
After that, simply click Go!
CloneDVD 2 will start encoding the movie and this will take something like 15 to 90 minutes, depending on your computer speed, etc. After the encoding is finished, CloneDVD 2 will pop up a new messagebox asking you to insert a blank disc to your DVD recorder, in case you haven't done so already.
After the burning is finished, you should have a nice and shiny backup of your original DVD-Video disc
Output method #2: Create VIDEO_TS directory
If you wish to use some other method of burning the DVDR disc, you should select the DVD files option from the Output method box.
Use the "orange box" to locate a directory from your harddrive where you would like to store your DVD files. Please remember that this directory has to have at least 4.38GB of free space. You should also keep the Add VIDEO_TS directory to path checkbox selected.
Once you've done that, click Go! and CloneDVD 2 will start processing your DVD. This will take something like 15 to 90 minutes, depending on your PC hardware, etc.
Once the creation of files is finished, CloneDVD will pop up a new messagebox stating that the processing was successful and also stating how long it took for it to compress the movie.
Now you're ready to burn the DVD files to a DVDR.
Regards Scoota An I Aint the one in Coronation Street lol
We've seen a massive amount new of tools to appear that allow users to backup DVD movies to a single DVD-R or DVD+R disc in the last couple of years. Some of them simply suck. Some of them are mediocre, offering nothing new or nice or even cheaper price than the competition. Some tools cherish the flexibility, some tools the simplicity, etc. CloneDVD 2 from Elaborate Bytes is one of the best compromises at the moment for people who are looking for simple user interface, but also certain amount of flexibility -- and of course, a decent picture quality.
The Goal?
The goal of this guide is to back up a single DVD_9movie to a single layer DVD-R or DVD+R disc, using CloneDVD 2 as our transcoder (the thingy that quickly compresses a movie that takes more than 4.36GB of space to fit into one 4.36GB blank DVDR disc) . We're going to keep all the menus and extras on the disc as well as, obviously, the main movie as well. Guide, however, allows us to get rid of "unwanted" audio and subtitle tracks found on the DVD, if needed.
The requirements
First of all, as always with DVD to DVDR guides, it is highly desirable that you have a DVD recorder, otherwise there's very little point of actually completing this guide, unless you wish to prepare for the future when you might have one and store the DVD images to your massive 2TB HDD until then
Whether you have a DVD recorder or not, you need to have some form of DVD drive installed on your PC anyway to read the DVD-Video files from your DVD disc. Secondly, you must have at least 10 to 15 gigabytes of free HDD space to rip the original files to your harddrive and then transcode them to fit on a single DVD-R (or DVD+R, obviously they're both the same size) disc.
Then, for this guide, you need to have these tools installed into your PC:
· DVD DECRYPTOR
· CLONE DVD 2
DVD Decrypter is needed because CloneDVD 2 doesn't support decrypting CSScopy protected DVDs and DVD Decrypter, which is freeware, can handle this task.
Lets begin..
the process starts with inserting your DVD into a DVD drive and launching the DVD Decrypter
NEXT
DVD Decrypter
Now when you've got your DVD Decrypter open, you should go to the Mode menu and change the mode to File
Now, in the right-hand side panel, you should see a list of DVD's contents. Use your mouse and your shift key to select all of the files shown (remember to scroll down and select the files at the bottom of the list as well) . Also, make sure that the path DVD Decrypter has selected for the files to be ripped to, is suitable for your requirements -- this path (and the information of how much free space that drive has) is shown on the left-hand side panel.
NOW! PLEASE LOOK AT THE BOTTOM-RIGHT CORNER OF THE DVD DECRYPTER'S WINDOW! IF this value is less than 4 700 000 KB, you shouldn't be using this guide at all, but rather use the DVD-5 to DVDR
Now, simply click the big icon (the arrow pointing from the disc to HDD) and the ripping should start. This will take anywhere between 3 and 30 minutes, depending on your DVD drive, your HDD and the disc itself. Slightly scratched DVDs will take a lot longer time as DVD Decrypter tries to overcome the inevitable read errors found on those discs.
After a while, you should see a messagebox stating that the ripping has been completed. After that, you can close the DVD Decrypter and launch CloneDVD 2 .
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CloneDVD 2
Now, CloneDVD 2 's basic user interface is very, very clean and simple. There are no preferences available to tweak, no difficult selections on front page, etc. Just three main buttons and that's about it
For our guide, we now need to select the option that says Clone DVD . Let's click it now.
Now, you should see the second screen of CloneDVD 2 to appear. It looks rather empty at first, as we haven't selected any video files yet. Now, click the orang-y button next to the textbox that says DVD video files .
Select the ripped video files
Clicking that button opened a new file selection box. With this box, you should locate the directory where DVD Decrypter copied your video files from the DVD disc . Now, to be more precise, you need to get into that directory's sub-directory called VIDEO_TS and select that and click OK .
DVD Information
After you've done that, CloneDVD quickly analyzes the contents of the ripped DVD and shows the structure of the ripped DVD in this window. The red-yellow-green bar at the bottom of the window indicates how strongly the ripped DVD needs to be compressed in order for it to fit to a single DVDR disc. If the Quality percentage is lower than 50%, it indicates that the encoding might cause bit weak picture and in later steps, you should remove as many of the unnecessary audio and subtitle streams as possible.
Don't touch to any of the checkboxes, leave them all selected, unless you know exactly what you're doing -- after all, we're trying to make here a full copy of a DVD disc, not a copy with material removed from it.
Now, simply click Next .
Audio and subtitle settings
On this page, I recommend that you go through every single Title listed on the left-hand side, clicking the Title number and checking its audio and subtitle streams. This is not required if you wish to keep everything as it is on the DVD, but highly recommended if the quality percentage on previous page was lower than 60% or so.
If you're about to remove audio tracks, remember that each title is typically a separate entity -- normally the longest one is the main movie and the shorter ones (time is indicated in the brackets after the title number for each title) are normally extras on the disc (ínterviews, menus, trailers, etc) .
As a thumb rule, if there's an audio available in the language you prefer, in format that states AC-3/6 , that's the one you should leave selected and unselect the other ones. If there's no such audio, the one you should opt to use instead is AC-3/2 . These are the very basic audio formats that DVDs use (AC-3/6 is the DD5.1 surround audio and AC-3/2 is the DD2.0 stereo audio) and that all DVD players need to support. Opting to preserve only DTS audio tracks and to remove all the other tracks might prove to be rather unwise selection, since you normally need to have a separate DTS-capable decoder or amplifier to play DTS audio at all.
Also, remember that very often the main movie (the longest playback time) has the most audio selections. It doesn't matter if you select AC-3/6 for this title and AC-3/2 for the others (in very many cases, the "others" that are normally extras found on DVDs, don't even have 5.1 audio available) , the disc will work anyway.
After you've tweaked (or left untouched) the selections on this page, click Next and we'll get to the next window.
NEXT
Selecting The Output Method
As CloneDVD 2 supports burning the DVD-/+R discs itself, some people prefer using that option since its rather convenient to burn the files directly from the same program that created the files in the first place.
But then again, there are people that prefer using other methods for burning -- for whatever reason; some people like to make more than one backup at a time of the same movie, some people like to have facility to validate the burning results and some people simply like other burning tools too much
We're going to handle both methods here, the direct burning to a DVDR disc and the creation of DVD-Video files that can then be used by various DVD burning tools, such as Nero , etc.
Output method #1: Burn to DVDR with CloneDVD
Click the DVD Writer button in Output method box. Then, make sure that the correct DVD drive is selected in the DVD writer box. Adjust the preferred speed value if you wish to, but the maximum should be good for most of the people.
Finally, make sure that the directory CloneDVD 2 suggests as a temporary video file storage has at least 4.38GB of free space in it . If it doesn't have that, change the Temporary directory for video files value to something that has enough free space for the temporary files.
After that, simply click Go!
CloneDVD 2 will start encoding the movie and this will take something like 15 to 90 minutes, depending on your computer speed, etc. After the encoding is finished, CloneDVD 2 will pop up a new messagebox asking you to insert a blank disc to your DVD recorder, in case you haven't done so already.
After the burning is finished, you should have a nice and shiny backup of your original DVD-Video disc
Output method #2: Create VIDEO_TS directory
If you wish to use some other method of burning the DVDR disc, you should select the DVD files option from the Output method box.
Use the "orange box" to locate a directory from your harddrive where you would like to store your DVD files. Please remember that this directory has to have at least 4.38GB of free space. You should also keep the Add VIDEO_TS directory to path checkbox selected.
Once you've done that, click Go! and CloneDVD 2 will start processing your DVD. This will take something like 15 to 90 minutes, depending on your PC hardware, etc.
Once the creation of files is finished, CloneDVD will pop up a new messagebox stating that the processing was successful and also stating how long it took for it to compress the movie.
Now you're ready to burn the DVD files to a DVDR.
Regards Scoota
An I Aint the one in Coronation Street lol 
