Yes. AnyDVD's feature is intended if you want to *watch* the original DVD on your Laptop/PC without getting sick. The adverts are skipped, but they still are on your DVD, of course. Most of AnyDVD's features are great for *watching* DVDs (transparent subtitles, UOP removal, region code removal, Macrovision removal, "PC-Friendly" removal, sharing "protected" DVDs over the Home Network, ...). Removing the copy protection to make copies is just a nice side effect. :-)
CloneDVD can remove the adverts completely, if you want to make a copy. Removing them gives more space for the movie = less compression = higher picture quality (watch the "quality bar"). Same deal with removing unwanted Audio Tracks = less video compression = higher picture quality.
Simple with these. AnyDVD removes the protection. Launch CloneDVD 2 and select copy dvd titles. Not clone dvd. Just select the main movie only, usually title 1 and usually pre-selected for you.
All you'll have in the end is the movie without trailers and such.
Be sure and select only the title. It's the one that has the longest run time.
I noticed on one DVD I was backing up, there were 8 no less tracks that were 0:00 or 0:01 seconds long with no audio. Now I have AnyDVD and CloneDVD2 and I removed the tracks (unchecked them) and my backup had them anyway. Of course, I said I wanted to preserve the menu, but these went no where. Can anyone explain? Also, my DVD and its backup looked like it was rebooting the player about 8 times also.
diverj When using CloneDVD 2 and you back up Movie only: Why would you need the Menu? Personally, I uncheck preserve menu. Why? Because I only want the Movie & the menu will not take you anywhere anyway with "Movie Only" back up. I suggest you try uncheck preserve menus, and try just the title you want backed up.
