Can you buy the CCE Basic without the trial?

@arniebear

The guides are great. Do you use that Shrink Menu program? I have been backing up the "Entire" DVD because with Shrink or Nero, if you re-authored in any way, the menu would not work anymore. It would be made into a clip, but would not work. If I shrink the menu and remove the previews, etc., will the Menu still work? Some of the menus are quite sizeable and that added space would certainly add to the quality of the actual movie.

Thanks,

NB

 

If you use RB Pro you have the option of keeping the menu with the movie. Or if you use RipIt4Me you can do movie + menu. Usually I back up movie only or if I really want the whole movie I use a Dual Layer disk. Cannot comment on the Menu Shrink, I have not used it, but many have used it with great success

 

@arniebear

I thought about using the quality reduction on the "Extras". I don't suppose you ever tried that, since You like the "Movie Only" most of the time. I think I will try that though. I am really not too concerned about the quality of the Menu and Extras. Like You, I am looking to get the best possible quality "Movie" I can without going to the expense of dual layer recording.

I "Personally" like "Movie Only", but other people in the family want the menu and extras.

If you use dual layer, do you get Verbatim? I have Benq 1655 burner.

Thanks,

NB

 

Yes I use Verbatim, have two Plextor 716A burners and they come out great. That BenQ is a good drive/burner and should have no probem with Verbatim. You can use the steal space from the extras in RB, the movie will still come out looking good.

 

@arniebear

I am going to try that before I start to shrink the menus. Thanks for all of your help. I will be in this Forum regularly I am sure. Please watch for my posts.

NB

 

Good luck, will watch for your posts and cheers

 

I used to see 3 to 4 hours of time using DvdRb. Until I ran across this at Doom9.DualDVDRB - A program to make use of two CPU cores in DVD-RB

DualDVDRB is an extension for DVD-RB (www.dvd-rb.com). It makes DVD-RB to
encode two different pieces of the DVD simultaneously. By doing that, DVD-RB
uses the power of two virtual (HT) or real CPU cores even if the encoder
only supports single thread encoding. So this will give you a performance
boost for Pentium 4 HT processors and of course for the new dual core
processors of AMD and Intel.
Currently supported are HC and QuEnc in the pro and in the free version of
DVD-RB. Now my time is down to about 95 min. just thought I'd throw this in.

 

@2colors

I appreciate the input. I read all the information and many of the posts. The posts indicate that this does not work with CCE, which is the encoder I use. It looks great for those who use the others. Thanks Again...