DVD Shrink procedure question

[videobruce]

I read a couple of the how to's on DVD Shrink and had a question regarding the procedure of coping a DVD without the fluff.
After I open the program and load the DVD I first select 'Re-author',
then I open the main movie folder, I drag the main title to the left pane,
thern I click the 'Backup' button and set the start and end points (what I consider the best feature of the program) and start the process.

The question is; should I be dragging the main movie folder over or just the title 1 file (which is the main movie) since that is all I want, no extra tracks, etc.? I burned two DVD's this way and it seems to be ok though I haven't tried then in a stand alone player yet.

[Gurm]

Well, you want to drag over whichever main movie is what you want - often there are multiple titles in there because one of them has re-entry points for the extras, or even one of them is widescreen and one is fullscreen!

Then don't forget disabling the languages you don't want - that saves even more space, getting rid of the french language track and whatnot.

[videobruce]

In the 3 DVD's I burned with DVD Shrink, in the main movie folder there has been only one file name!

My question is does it matter if you drag the folder or just the file?

[skebenin]

Not really. Dragging the folder is the same as dragging the title(s) in that folder.

However, when you hit a disk with multiple titles, you may not want to drag them all over. With a multi-episode TV series disk, you might want them all, but a movie disk with a theatrical release and a director's cut, you probably don't.

[Richard_G]

I always drag just the file. Once you have dragged the Main Movie file to the left hand pane, click the compression tab at the top of the right hand pane. Deselect the foreign audio and subpicture (subtitles usually) that you don't want. This will free up some more space and the video won't have to be compressed as much (if at all) to fit on a DVDR.

Don't do what I did when I first started. I figured that as I didn't have a surround sound system I would delete the English 5.1 audio and just have the English 2 channel audio. Bad move, ended up with a backup of my movie with no sound other than the directors commentary.....

[HatchetMan]

I don't drag anything. I double click the file(s) I want and that's that

[smearbrick1]

I always drag just the file. Once you have dragged the Main Movie file to the left hand pane, click the compression tab at the top of the right hand pane. Deselect the foreign audio and subpicture (subtitles usually) that you don't want. This will free up some more space and the video won't have to be compressed as much (if at all) to fit on a DVDR.

Don't do what I did when I first started. I figured that as I didn't have a surround sound system I would delete the English 5.1 audio and just have the English 2 channel audio. Bad move, ended up with a backup of my movie with no sound other than the directors commentary.....

It's also a good idea to leave at least the first set of english subs (if english is your native language) otherwise, you may end up watching a movie that needs subtitles without subtitles (I did this with "The Missing" and watched the backup I made. Couldn't figure out what the hell they were talking about).

[Gurm]

I have made it a point to always leave the English subtitles on. You never know when they'll say something that you can't understand, or something in a foreign language that DOESN'T have hard-subs for whatever bizarre reason.

[HatchetMan]

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