To all of you DVDRebuilder and DVDRemake pro's, I just purchase these programs and wanted to warn you that you will probably be inundated with questions in short order. I will be having fun tonight!
I'm sure you will be extremely happy with these programs. I use them both, almost exclusively now, and they are the best I have found. Have you decided what encoder you are going to use yet? I am a CCE fan. There are several members that can answer just about any question you might have. They certainly have for me. Enjoy.
@NytBurnr Thanks for the welcome. I got the CCE Basic package and installed it. I did my first RB backup of Mask of Zorro. It took about 123 minutes. Kind of lenthty compared to CloneDVD. I hope that the quality will be noticible. Is there a way to set the target size? I would like to set it to about 4360kbs. How does one make a second pass, or know if it is required? Thanks for the input. I have not tried DVDremake yet, but will play with it this weekend. I did notice that my usual method of using DVDdecrypter and ripping movie and ifo's only caused a problem with RB. It gave me a warning that it could not start because it was missing a VOB file. I re-ripped the entire movie. Is this what I should do. Rip the entire movie every time, rather than movie and IFO's only? Cheers.
Hey 9mm, welcome to the gang. Target size is a "hidden setting" If you open the ini file in the rebuilder folder. It will be labled Configuration settings. It will open in notepad. Anywhere under the options, you need to insert a line. Mine is set at: TargetSectors=2265000 You can adjust this number to whatever you choose. This has worked well for me. You can also add individual encoder sizes that will override the TargetSector setting. This is good if you typically get a smaller or larger size when using a given encoder, but others that you use give the desired output. these are: CCETargetSectors= ReJigTargetSectors= QuEncTargetSectors= HCTargetSectors= ProcodertSectors= To make a second pass, just click on the settings-CCE Setting-advance Settings. Have fun and happy burning.
And as far as ripping the whole movie, that is really your only option if you are going to use DVDD on its own. If you have RB-Pro, you can choose to do movie only, movie + menus, etc. What I like to do now is rip with Ripit4me, this program can rip movie, movie + menus, etc. via DVDD, but incorporates FixVTS to correct the file structure.
@9mmruger1 I do just what ebega posted. RipIt4Me is great and there is no conflict with DVDRB. I don't try to adjust target size. There is not an issue with RB. I used to set my target size to 4300 with Nero. I asked this same question and the concensus was that if you are going to adjust the "pre-sets" in this program, you better know what you are doing. I have never had a dvd crash because it was written too close to the outer edge by RB. There is usually a reason why you have to go through a "hidden setting" to make changes. As for 2 passes, my CCE Basic has made 2 passes on every backup I have made. You can see it on the bar at the bottom of the screen. It shows the percentage during encoding of each section. It does not change section number until it has gone through it twice.
Thanks for all the answers and helpful hints. I really appreciate it. I have been spending lots of time at the doom9 forum for this program as well and jdobbs has been very helpful as well. I did two last night, xmen3 and inside man. I am burning them this morning and look forward to seeing the results. Have any of you utilized differing encoders for comparison? How did they play out against one another for quality?
@9mmruger1 I used QuENC. It was much slower and I felt the quality was much better with CCE. I have backed up both of the movies you just did and quality was great, even though the compression was high. I have done the complete DVD on several and they look excellent. Most of the time, I delete extras, warnings, etc. with Dvd Remake. I keep the menus, because I like them. When I used Nero, I only kept the movies for quality. Now we can keep as much(or little)as we want of the entire DVD.
I started looking at DVDRemake today. It looks kind of intimidating. The guide for the program is helpful. I just worry about deleting something out that will be needed to make the movie play properly. I should be safe to delete the other language streams, yes? Warning screens etc. Menu's too. What do they mean by buttons?
@9mmruger1 DVD ReMake is a snap. First things first... If you use RipIt4Me, after Fix VTS has finished, the movie automatically loads into Shrink. That only takes 30 to 60 seconds. You can review each section...menus, main movie and extras separately with Shrink. You can usually find out where the warnings are and make sure you block that section with Remake. After reviewing all 3 sections, you pretty much know what you want to change. Close Shrink when you have finished. Make sure to close it, don't minimize it. Open up DVD Remake and click on file. Import your ripped dvd (VIDEO_TS file). Double click on the first secion. Usually very little there. When you see the biggest section, you pretty much know that is where your movie is. When you double click on that, you will usually see menus in a section underneath main heading that is a subfile. Double click on that. Click on the first box at the top left hand side. It will go into the larger box below. Use the right arrow at the bottom of the large box to fast forward through that block and each one thereafter. If you want part of what is in a block, leave the whole thing. Use "Hide Block" to take a section out. If you delete something, you can not get it back. Hide Block allows you to recover if you accidently block something you did not mean to. If you get into a section like "Extras", You can "Hide All Blocks". That is self explanatory. Export your "modified" movie to a VIDEO_TS file. You can play it before burning to make sure it is the way you want it. When Remake asks you if you want to save changes you have made to the project, click yes...just in case you have to go back and do something differently or the program crashes, etc., etc. The buttons that you were wondering about are different parts of the menu. If you only want to allow "Play Movie" and "Select Scene", you can "Hide" the other categories (usually there is a button to click on for each category...thus the reference to buttons). If you do "Movie Only", you will rarely need DVD Remake. Also, you may rarely need DVD RB except for large movies. There is very little difference in quality between Encoding and Recoding if the compression is 15% or less. I still use CCE even with no compression, because I have found it reduces waffling. It only takes 25 minutes (or less) to use "1 Click", start to finish, if there is no compression. About the same as Nero Recode. One last suggestion...once you get your movie ready to burn, I really like ImgBurn. It doesn't matter whether you have an ISO or VIDEO_TS file, it will burn an ISO on the disk(use the "Build" option if you are burning VIDEO_TS to ISO). If your are into scans, I have a Benq 1655 and with Ty and Verbatim, my scans all range between 96 and 99 with no coasters. I hope this info has helped. Don't be intimidated by this software. It really is user friendly. I am no expert, but I have had lots of fun with these programs. For me it is all about video quality and here is a way to get very good quality, even with highly compressed movies.
Thanks for the amount of time and thought that you put into your post. I really appreciate it. I will be playing with it a lot. Hopefully I will get it. I certainly do like the results of Rebuilder. Excellent product.
