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jdcope
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_ 		18. April 2005 @ 17:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I am trying to use DVDShrink to make a backup of a movie that is a bit over 2 hrs long. Shrink says the best compression I can do is 56%. Is that a bit tooooo much? Just wondering what the lowest is I should go to keep it watchable? Without compression the movie alone is about 7.5GB.
So far I have made backups at 88% or higher, and they look great.

Thanks
Jon
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rhino351
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_ 		18. April 2005 @ 17:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
should be fine ive done at even lower than that
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Arkion
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_ 		18. April 2005 @ 18:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
As long as you do the deep analyse feature you should be fine. When I backed up Star Wars trilogy and Farscape movie the compression was around 52-55% and I saw no difference in quality compaired to others where I had 100%. I ran no other programs and used Fugi Film media at 3x record speed.
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bilbo65
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_ 		18. April 2005 @ 19:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
For most movies the visual quality of the copy is generally better than the "artistic quality" of the movie.
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forkndave
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_ 		18. April 2005 @ 20:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I've done quite a few at 55% or so and they looked good. I find that if I go below 50% I start seeing the quality start to degrade. I backed up a disc recently that I didn't realise that it had both wide and full screen on it. It went down to 45% or so and looked pretty poor. I redid it using a disc for widescreen and one for full screen and didn't need any compression at all. If I have to go below 90% I will use deep analysis and one of the AEC settings (unless it's a cartoon). It really makes a difference.
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jdcope
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_ 		19. April 2005 @ 11:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sounds good. Thanks for the help!
Jon
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