Excuse the pun please, but I have another burning question to ask. I looked over a good deal of posts but was unable to find where this has been addressed before. If it was answered recently, I do apologize. I will use Troy as an example, as this is the disk I'm playing around with at the moment. Troy is almost double of what the capacity of one blank DVD will hold uncompressed. Thus do people typically compress a movie like this, or would it be better to split it up onto two DVDs? I'm not a HUGE picture-quality snob but I don't want the movie to look like a VCR tape either. Btw this site is wonderful. Tim
I compress all movies regardless of size, I couldn't stand changing the dvd half way through a movie, but some may not have a problem changing the disc. Quality is a very personal taste, some just want it fast as possible, some have a 19 inch tv that everything looks good on, I like quality. I use DVD Rebuilder/CCE combo, movie only with 5.1 audio, Troy looks excellent with this setup. All I can suggest is to experiment with different programs to see what works for you, Clone2, Nero Recode2, Shrink, InterVideo DVDCopy3, DVD Rebuilder are a few of my favorites but Rebuilder gives the best results hands down.
Thanks for the response. I watch most of my movies on a 40 inch TV (not HD unfortunately) - do you think I will likely notice a difference using compression with Shrink? Of course, the easiest way would just be for me to try it out and see, but I'd rather not waste the blanks for something that's going to look fairly poor.
I have compressed Troy, and it came out okay viewed on my 52 inch TV. Did a 1x burn in Nero Recode and it took forever, but I have since gone to splitting these big movies the quality I think is better and there is no compression. Just my opinion.
