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f1drake
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_ 		22. July 2004 @ 13:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The dvd I am trying to burn is 7.3 GB. Even after reauthoring with shrink and including only the main movie, the original precentage still reads 50.3%. Damn. Will this look real bad when I am done? Or should I spend the money and get CCE Basic to back up the movie?
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fasfrank
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_ 		22. July 2004 @ 21:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
There are quite a few folks going the rebuilder route with a lot of success. I'm lazy so I just split my big movies. I think there is a pretty good thread over at "one click transcoding" concerning CCE and rebuilder.

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/88295
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karen2003
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_ 		23. July 2004 @ 19:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
How a compressed movie looks is sooooooo subjective. I saw some tests on some thread here -- some videophiles did tests with Shrink & some others (maybe CCE was there too) and they didn't think much of Shrink. To be honest, the differences that they thought were huge, I thought were barely perceptible and wouldn't curtail my enjoyment of the movie. I respect their opinions, but I just think it's so subjective that you should judge for yourself.

I think if your original DVD has a ton of action, like "The Matrix" or some other action/adventure-type films, then maybe you wouldn't be happy with the results of a high level of compression. But I've gone all the way down to 48-49% in Shrink and have still been satisfied with the results on my 27" and 32" TVs. That's doing a "deep analysis" in Shrink, which takes longer but to me is worth it.

This is just my two cents' worth. Maybe you could try it on a DVD+RW or -RW disc so if you don't like it, (1) you can re-use the disc and (2) you'll know for your future info that high levels of compression aren't satisfactory for you.
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_ 		23. July 2004 @ 20:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
f1drake,

I use DVD Rebuilder & CCE Basic on the very long movies. Most of the time I still use Shrink w/ Decrypter or Nero. I watch mine on 27" and 32" tv's. I'm still happy with my backups using Shrink. And soon the new Shrink will be out, and is suppose to be better :)

And one thing, Rebuilder w/ CCE takes 3-4 hours on my system. Which is why I only use it for the long ones. Hope this helps. Honestly ... fasfranks way is just as good and faster.
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_ 		25. July 2004 @ 21:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
At that percentage I think it would look pretty bad with Shrink. Personally, even though I'm a fan of Rebuilder, with that amount of compression I'd probably split it across 2 discs with Shrink.
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99masond
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_ 		29. July 2004 @ 16:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
but if you needed to you could split a movie with srink
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