I am puzzled by people's recommendation to keep movie sizing above 80%. Most of us want to maximize the movie quality and therefore want to increase the movie sizing to its highest level. However, there are so many movies that I have encountered (like Star Wars II, etc) where the movie sizing can be only maximized to roughly 60%. I have removed/reduced the quality of the extras to generally around 40% and I have "supersized" the entire size allocation to 4.65 gb. I have removed all foreign languages and subtitles other than English. Is there something that I am missing or some setting that I can tweak to increase the main movie quality? I still do not understand why many of the guides and forum discussion states to increase movie sizing above 80% when I cannot get above 60%. Any help would be appreciated. 8)
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The more room the movie takes up on the original DVD the more it will have to be compressed by to fit on a DVDR. I am guessing that the film you talk about takes a lot of space on the original disc therefore requires a lot of compression.
For films like this it is probably better to split it onto two discs otherwise you will notice the quality loss. -
What I have been doing is putting the movie only one one CD, and all of the extras on another. If you do it with Instant Copy it puts the menu on both CDs, and it gives much more room for the real movie.
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I have done the same where I have had to reduce some movies to 60% (when keeping extras) and I still find them acceptable - far better than SVHS and comparable to digital satellite broadcast.
When I used to use the CCE/Maestro/Ifoupdate method I couldn't tell hardly any difference at 60% but with IC7 it is noticeable which is why most recommendations are >80%.
Best thing is to use the registry hack and strip out some of the extras which will alllow you to get that percentage up. Also, you can usually slide the size up to 4.6GB and it will still come in under the 4.37 max - this will also increase your percentage -
Originally Posted by q1aqza
http://www.deano.dsl.pipex.com/GUIDE/titlesNONO.htm -
Do most people split the movie onto 2 DVD if the setting is at 60% or less? I try to remove or minimize the size of the extras but I notice that the amount of space taken by the extras is usually small (sometimes less than 100 MB). With that in mind, it seems like the only way to keep the setting at 80% or higher for the main movie is to split the main movie onto 2 DVDs. How would we do this with Instant Copy?
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how do you "super size" the disc? i dont know where to go to slide it up further than 4.32 GB.
i would really like to do this since it the ending size is never around 4.32 GB it is always MUCH less. -
untick automatic, resize the DVD to around 4.6- 4.65Gb then press F5 and click OK
that's assuming you've changed the registry so that DVDMAGIC is value 1 -
whats the deal with pushing F5 i am using the InstantCopySettings.exe tool and when I uncheck " auto-size" and then cut all the extras and slide the slider up to increase the percentage and set it to overburn it still comes out to 3.97 gigs I tried this twice with different percentages and get the same results.
Thanks alot,
dreadogg
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