I am pretty new to this DVD burning thing ... I have made some copies that have come out "ok" and a couple that have not been "ok" :-( ... can I erase those and start over or are those DVD-R's not of any use now?? plus when trying to backup my latest DVD I noticed something else ...<<<blushes>>> Obviously I see that I need to know more about what I am doing here... I am pretty computer savvy & I am also a quick learner. I have a Dell Dimension 4700 Microsoft Windows XP Professional Pentium 4 Processor @3.0 Ghz with 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM @ 400 Mhz... my DVD drives are: SONY DVD-ROM DDU1615 and PHILIPS DVD+-RW DVD8631 I have Any DVD & Clone DVD software I am not sure which parts of the audio and/or video on the DVD I am trying to back up that I can exclude without losing the desired end copy that I am trying to attain. The end copy that I would like to have is a copy of the movie to watch with all of the special features, I do not desire any subtitles unless they might be necessary as with the"Crouching Tiger" movie. Previews of other movies are not always desired either. I know nothing about which audio to choose at all. And on the current one I am trying to back up when I look at the dvd file contents, I noticed that there is a file named "DVD_ROM_MacOSX.app" which I would think this is a file which makes it possible to run the dvd on a Mac, but am not really sure what it is. If it is what I think it is , then there must be "2 different copies" of this movie on the DVD and probably I just need one of them. Also on the same DVD I am trying to back up are 2 versions of the movie... one is "uncorked" and the other is "theatrical"... I would like to have both of these so that I might retain the option of watching either one. I would like to know more about what to choose and not to choose so that I can bring up the quality of the writing process into the "green" area on the CloneDVD software writing program and I understand that the less I copy the better the end result I will get. Any instruction and/or advice would be greatly appreciated Thanks for your time !!!
considering that you have burned some already there are guides all over the net that show how to do it flawlessly. but remember these must be your backups. ;-D
Here's a guide for CloneDVD, http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/full_dvd_to_dvdr_with_clonedvd.cfm I have that software, but I don't use it, however I do use DVD Decrypter, VobBlanker, and Nero's Recode, and, of course, ANYDVD running in the background, in that order. HTH, Rich
