Okay, I have several DVD boxsets, things like Stargate Season 1,2, etc. I want to have a backup of these and am sure I saw a guide on here to a program that would split discs that had episodes, to two discs maintaining 100% quality and menus but splitting the episodes across two discs so you could split them onto two DVD-Rs. Please can anyone point me to this, as I can't find it now. Also I was wondering whether it'd be possible to backup just the episodes and nothing else, I was hoping that I'd be able to put a full episode onto a CD-R without any loss of quality and therefore using one CD-R for each episode of the series. Would this be at all possible and would these work in standard DVD players, the paramount thing is that I don't want to lose quality. Thanls.
You can split your disks using CloneDVD and retain menus on both disks. I use this method for my TV boxed sets all the time, there is no loss of quality using this method. A guide is available here http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/1FOR1 BACKUP CLONEDVD&ANYDVD.pdf You can get a 21 day free trial of the program here http://www.slysoft.com If you want to put them on CD you will lose quality because you will have to convert them to VCD or SVCD and these are no always compatible with all standalone players. You can however do this through Nero using Nero Express.
Thanks for the help . Would it also be possible to have only the episodes on DVD-Rs, without menus, et al? Also what happens if there's 3 eps per disc, do you get one with 2 and one with 1 ? Thanks.
Also in that guide, won't it just put half the video on each, i.e. 1.5 eps on each, and not 2 on one and 1 on the other so you get full episodes on each disc and dont' have to change mid way through an episode?
If you just want to do the episodes without menus then you can use DVD Shrink for this and just use the re-author mode. I put two on one disk and one on another it makes for no compression.
No Clone will put two titles on one disk and 1 on another. I like to keep the menus in case I watch on episode and not the other, I can then just hit the next episode with the menu.
Okay cool, thanks. Will do a test run and see which works best . If you have 2 on one and 1 on the other, do you still have the menu pointing to the episode not on that disc, and what happens if you select the episode not on the disc ?
I only use the menu on both disks if I have more than one episode on it otherwise, if there is only 1 episode I don't check the preserve menu box.
Another little question I'd like to ask, would it ever be possible in the future to reconstruct the DVD from the two halves I've created? i.e. when DVD dual layers become cheap, would I be able to easily convert the two DVD-Rs into one DVD_DL by any chance, or be able to reconstruct it into the same DVD on my computer so I could play all episodes on each disc from menus on one DVD? Thanks.
Sorry I think I've been given the wrong guide, its for a 1 to 1 backup but only for full movies, could someone give me the link tto the correct guide please?
Here is the guide for using AnyDVD and CloneDVD http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/BACKUP WITH CLONEDVD&ANYDVD.pdf For doing your sets just open the whole disk and uncheck the titles you are not going to backup, then proceed. You do this for each disk. e.g. if you have a disk with three titles and only want title one and two on the disk the check those and uncheck three, check the preserve menu in the right corner if you want the menu. After you backup that one go back open the disk again, and uncheck title one and two and keep title three and just proceed.
