DVD reauthoring with DVD Shrink

[Magus_Darksoul]

Hello everyone,

Ok here is my problem... I only want the main movie and the menu system. I want to put it on 1 DVD, cause its a pain switching DVD's in the middle of a movie. DVD Shrink allows two modes as most of you know, Full Disk and Reauthor.

In Full Disk mode the main movie comes up with a size of 7,252MB while in ReAuthor mode it has a size of 6,065MB. Neither mode is compressed. Why is there a size difference between these two?

Ok so i rip the main movie in reauthor mode and remove the credits from the end. Unfortunatly it doesnt seen to let me rip the menu for the movie in this mode.

Can anyone help me here, like i said im looking for just the main movie and the menu (no extra's). I have download pretty much any DVD Ripping tool i could find.

Thanks,
Magus

P.S. i have read a few topics about this but i have tried some of them and others i couldnt understand what was going on. If you could be as elaborite as possible i would be really thankful.

[poopyhead]

In Full Disk mode the main movie comes up with a size of 7,252MB while in ReAuthor mode it has a size of 6,065MB. Neither mode is compressed. Why is there a size difference between these two?

in the ReAuthor mode, were any of the audio streams removed? how about the subtitles?

also, v2.3 allows it to show overlapping titles combined....i.e. in full disk mode, there could be some extras that overlap with the main movie...perhaps, dvdshrink combined the extras along with the main movie....however, in ReAuthor mode, you only get the main movie w/o any extras (combined or not)

Ok so i rip the main movie in reauthor mode and remove the credits from the end. Unfortunatly it doesnt seen to let me rip the menu for the movie in this mode.

Can anyone help me here, like i said im looking for just the main movie and the menu (no extra's). I have download pretty much any DVD Ripping tool i could find.

ReAuthor mode doesn't allow you to keep the menu....only movie...not menu, extras, etc...

if you want to keep the menu w/o the extras, then you need to to a full disk mode and turn the extras into still pictures.....this compresses the extras by alot....however, it still wastes some space...

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I'd go for Pinical's Instant Copy, it keeps menues, allows you to remove extra languages and DTS sound (sounds beautiful but is often around 700MB of uncompressable space) and you'll get exactly what you want. It takes a bit longer but the results are nicer usually.

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[poopyhead]

I'd go for Pinical's Instant Copy, it keeps menues, allows you to remove extra languages and DTS sound (sounds beautiful but is often around 700MB of uncompressable space) and you'll get exactly what you want. It takes a bit longer but the results are nicer usually.

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actually, DVDshrink (my experience so far has been with disk backup mode, not reauthor) allows you to remove extra audio, subtitles, etc....so far, the only thing it can't do is completely remove a set of vobs and still keep the menu's...so basically, if you want the menu's you're gonna have to keep the extras in some form or another...dunno if IC is the same or allows u to keep the menu's but completely remove the extras...

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yes you keep them, thats the point BUT you can reduce their quality to 30% of original so that more data space can be saved for the main movie.

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[poopyhead]

yes you keep them, thats the point BUT you can reduce their quality to 30% of original so that more data space can be saved for the main movie.

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well then, dvdshrink is basically the same because it can turn any video into still images...compressing them by 80%. however, with either proggie, the extras (though heavily compressed) still take up precious space.

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But it cannot alow infinite adjustments. With IC you can go from 30-100%, not just steps. Also, many times with Shrink you cant get things small enough, specially if movies are larger than about 6 gigs.

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[poopyhead]

But it cannot alow infinite adjustments. With IC you can go from 30-100%, not just steps. Also, many times with Shrink you cant get things small enough, specially if movies are larger than about 6 gigs.

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1) yes...i agree with you about the steps....that could be improved

2) dvdshrink goes max 50% compression before skipping all the way to still images (80% compression)....i personally don't think compressing the main movie beyond 50% would be very good. i would rather remove some audio tracks...there's usually a DTS audio track if the main movie, extras, and the menus compressed on lvl 10 (50%) can't fit on a single DVD-R...those DTS audio tracks take up at least 500 MB....i've seen some as high as 900 MB...and since i don't have a DTS decoder, that audio track is basically a waste of space...

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And isnt that what I said in my very first post? I drop only the extras down to minimum, 30%. the main movie and sometimes the main menu is left as high as they can go. the movie for obvious reasons and the menu just to impress better upon poping in the disk...lol.

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[poopyhead]

And isnt that what I said in my very first post? I drop only the extras down to minimum, 30%. the main movie and sometimes the main menu is left as high as they can go. the movie for obvious reasons and the menu just to impress better upon poping in the disk...lol.

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sorry...lost track we were only referring to the extras and not the main movie...

however, is 70% compression still watchable...are they still images or motion? even at 50% compression, the extras are showing clear artifacts, even on my 32" TV, which is pretty forgiving in terms of quality.

so, i'm not sure if you still want to watch the extras, or just compressing them as much as possible to save space for the main movie....if that's the case, it would be better if the extras can be completely removed, while still keeping the menus...since 70% compression of the extras still take up valuable real estate

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In regards to the extras, the 70% compression (IE 30% of original file size) is typically OK, not great. The extras will look alot like regular broadcast TV. This leaves near perfect quality for your main movie. The extras are still watchable however, just not as pretty. It works well. Darker movies such as blade2 tend to undersize (like final product of about 3.9 gig instead of 4.32.) but I believe thats because it 'thinks' that the dark/black is empty space rather than pertinent information so it compresses heavily in its VBR passes. Its still decent though...

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