In my humble opinion, I'd use the DL too. 1- I always retain everything on the disc (except for the FBI warnings, unwanted trailers and foreign language tracks/subtitles). 2- Since this movie relies heavily on CGI, I'd want it as crisp as possible. Add those together, and you have a DL backup Nevermind that it is over 3 hours lol.
Think i'll stic with the old 4.7gb...i think its all in the program you use...clonedvd does awfully good at making those low compression movies look good.
Your compression relates alot to the size of screen your watching it on. 55% com may not look bad on a 13" tv ,but as your tv screen gets larger you start to notice the picture quality getting worse and worst.If you don't presently have a big screen TV and your happy with what your seeing at 55% compression thats good. But if you think that some day you may have a 50"" or more screen you may find the picture quality very poor and wish you had made better back-up copy.
If you don't want to dish out the $ for a DL Disc or you don't have a DL burner then you can always split the movie onto to DVD-R/+R's ... http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/166660 http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/9893 http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/1FOR1 BACKUP CLONEDVD&ANYDVD.pdf http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/314781 These links will help
It was: 1. a fact. KK is about 3hrs 2. A recomendation. DA helps quality for long DVD, which require compression Hope this helps clarify!!
I usually just use Shrink for most DVD's and use Regular DVD's unless the compression rate is less than 70%, then I burn on DL instead. It also depends on the type of movie and how worth it I think it is. I haven't bought K Kong yet, but when I do and I back it up, I'm probably going to do a full copy on a DL disc. I watch a lot of movies on my computer and I have a good large monitor so I start seeing a big difference in quality if I compress more than 70%.
I use deep analysis and maximum smoothness (in dvd shrink)on movies of this length with excellent results. I have a 50in LCD projection HDTV and I can hardly tell the difference.
Wow, really, bigwop? On my 27" bedroom TV, i notice the 55% compression, even with the quality options checked. But again, I think think it was in this thread, but if the movie is that long, and it's worth it (meaning I love it or really want it), I'll just use the DL disc. If it's a movie that I couldn't care less about, I'll just stick to Shrink and its quality controls.
backed up King Kong today its at 46% compression with clonedvd 2 doing the movie only but the picture quality still good very good on my Sony LCD 26 inch TV ,i will try it on my larger screen later
Ok all this compression rate has got me lost. Its basically saying "there is not enough space on your target drive" My target drive being my DVD Burner drive and disc. Is there anything special I will have to do to burn king kong? As far as the DVD rebuilder stuff goes I am as lost doing that as I am reading Chinese. Could someone please tell me a more simple way to help me burn this movie? Thanks guys!
Well, I backed it up on 1 disc (Movie only) and it looks Great but if you are using Anydvd and CloneDvd2 the "Jump directly to movie" option does not work. I like to keep the Menus since I don't like guessing where the chapters are.
So the movie only should fit on one disc? I dont really care much for extras since I never check them out anyways. I too like to keep the menus though. What program did you use?
It looks better on a DVD-5 if you leave the menu and extras out. Because the movie is pretty big and will look a little pixelated and grainy if you leave the menu and extras in. I honestly can do without the menus anyway because my DVD players have title and chapter preview optioning allowing me to go to any availble chapter on a DVD without menu chapters included. I think you will find this feature on most new DVD players. I have two single disc SONY players that retail for $79.00 I learned about them here at the forums.
Everone has an opinion but I if you don't haave dual layer I recommend considering spanning such films to two disks with no compression. It costs about $0.25 more and it is very easy with re-author in shrink. You won't be sorry if you are watching this film in a couple of years on a larger monitor. Action or high value cinematography oriented films really can show differences at even compression to 80% of original, even with the best compression methods. The price you pay? anotehr blank dvdr5 at $0.25 and stretching your legs for 20 seconds in the middle of a two hour or so film. to me, well worth having a copy that as good as the original.
