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Hey,
i'm relatively new to this too and I won't treat you like an idiot like some of the others here. You know, they all had to start somewhere too.
anyway......This is what I use and it works fine.
1.DVDShrink..........freeware
2.DVDdecrypt...........freeware
3.Daemon Tools........freeware
4.Pinnacle Instant Copy........about $40 but it has a $20 rebate through may 31.
If you want the menus and all you use DVD decrypt but since you're putting more onto the disk the quality goes down.
I'll tell ya how to do JUST the movie file so quality stays high.
For this use DVD Shrink.
Click on ReAuthor.Click Add.Choose just the movie file....the biggest file. Click Crop and then the exact point you want to start by using the sliders.Also set exact point you want to end cutting out credits etc if that isn't important to you.
Then you hit finish and it encodes it down to the smallest file it can. If this is less than 4.38GB you can burn it with NO loss.
If it's bigger than 4.38GB you're still ok.
Save this to a file.
Open Instant Copy.Choose hard drive and double click it. Choose the .IFo file that is in that folder that you just saved.Click Start and it will burn it to one DVD-r.
Now if it's a big movie....Gladiator......We Were Soldiers, etc. When you use DVD Shrink you can split it to more than one disk to keep it from being too compressed and losing quality.
When you set the start point.set the end point in the middle...say 1h 20m 00s.
Save that to a folder then go back and start at 1h20m00s and end at the end of the movie. Save that to a second folder.
Now when you burn each onto a seperate disk, the movie will be split. Since you are putting only 1/2 the info on each disk the compression ratio is less and quality is higher. Hope this helps.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 2. May 2003 @ 04:10
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