InstantCopy 7 VS InstantCopy 8

[Espen]

I have used InstantCopy 7 since it was released a long time ago. I most say I have been satisfised with the program most times. I have also used DVD shrink and DVD2DVDr, but IC have been my choice for most backups. However time moves forward and I consider to move on to InstantCopy 8. I'm not very up to date on InstantCopy 8. If I'm going to change/update to this program, it most give me something better than IC7 did, but I figured Pinnacle most have developed InstantCopy over the past year, right? I don't care about new fast mode and so on, quality is what I consider most importent!

So I would be glad if some IC users can post their opinions on IC8 and if it beat the old IC7. How about quality compared between those two?

[stiltman]

I used IC8 for all my backups, until I tried DVDShrink 3.2. I looked at head to head comparisons from dlooping. I haven't use IC8 since.

Then again, most of the time I use DVDRebuilder as it beats them both hands down

[bmiller]

I have both versions and they are terrible at file size calculations,undersizing by up to 10%.
I now use clonedvd for some dvd's,and dvdrebuilder for the bulk of my movies.Record now max to burn.

[Espen]

dvdrebuilder in not realy a way to go for me, because I want to keep the extras!

However I decide to give IC8 a try. Installed latest version and tried it on Troy. It gave me a output file 4.11gb. So I tried it again, this time I oversize it to 4.55gb and thougt it would came out perfect, but it didn't. Again it gave me a size 4.11gb, strange!

Never had any size problems with IC7 and as long as no one seems to claim that IC8 beat IC7 in quality I can as well throw IC8 away and go back to IC7. However I don't understand how Pinnacle can release a new version of IC, that's not better then the old one.

[TheMadHatter]

dvdrebuilder in not realy a way to go for me, because I want to keep the extras!

Actually, DVDRebuilder lets you keep the extras. It only encodes what you give it. If you want to REMOVE extras, then you have to pre-process the files BEFORE you give it to Rebuilder.

The only thing that Rebuilder lets you remove on-the-fly is audio and subtitle tracks. You have to use a 3rd party apps (ie. DVDRemake, VobBlanker, etc.) to strip unwanted extras, prior to encoding with Rebuilder.

I've given up on IC myself (to many probs after my OS upgrade)... now I use DVDRebuilder/CCE and DVDShrink exclusively.

Heck, the only gripes I have with DVDRebuilder is speed (but that's because I choose to do 4-pass encoding), and the fact that it doesn't retain Close Captioning. Other than that, it's a GREAT app.

HTH

tMH

[sssax2003]

I used IC8 for all my backups, until I tried DVDShrink 3.2. I looked at head to head comparisons from dlooping. I haven't use IC8 since.

Then again, most of the time I use DVDRebuilder as it beats them both hands down

Hi, how do you use DVD REbuilder to re-author? I have CCE BASIC installed... I Re-author with DVd Shrink and leave movie only and english audio.... and let dvd shrink to rip to hard drive as ISO..... Im lost in dvd rebuilder.. or can I re-author first with dvd shrink and then do like 4 passes with dvd rebuilder?

[sssax2003]

So rip movie only with english audio in dvd shrink.... and select backup target create dvd files in hard disk folder? Check off analysis and enhancement , right? Then open source with DVD REbuilder?