what are the best CCE SP settings?

[12 gage]

Any experts I need some help please. I saw a friend's back up of LOTR which was perfect. It 3 hrs and he said he use CCE with only five passes.
I'm trying to back up the Chapelle Show season which is only 2 hrs 37 min. I used nine passes and it looked like sh#t! I followed the guide for DVDRebuilder and used their CCE settings but it never comes out as clear as others I've seen. Can anyone give up their secretes? Thanks in advance

[jarvis1781]

dont do 9 passes. often times that makes it worse...i dont know why

[Gurm]

I have discovered, for whatever reason, that I get better CCE encodes on my own WITHOUT using DVD Rebuilder. I'm not sure what the cause is, but if I do an encode of, say... Finding Nemo, just the movie, and set it to come out the same size as the final DVD rebuilder product... that I get better results using CCE directly.

I'm not sure what the problem is, really.

Was your friend also using DVD Rebuilder?

- Gurm

[12 gage]

I don't think so, but I've tried without because DVDRebuilder doesn't set the max bitrate very high, but I still used that guides CCE settings and it still didn't come out very clear, what guide/setting do you use if I may ask?