LOTR: TT backup strategies

[VinnySem]

Consider this: for your backup, do movie only with CCE/DoCCE4U and DVD-Lab to reauthor. This way you can maintain the excellent picture quality on the movie.

If you want to to a full backup of both disks, there is an extensive but excellent guide on doom9's website that uses DoItFast4U/DoCCE4U/ReAuthorist/Scenarist to reencode the entire DVD. I've not tried it, because I do movie-only backups, but from posts in the forums over there that method produces outstanding results.

[Adder_78]

OK - I'm happy to listen to your opinions and I will try the OPV tonight - perhaps I did it wrong when I last tried ...

RoBa (or Bach) is a quality based method where size is secondary whereas Multipass is size oriented with quality secondary... Both methods OPV and Multipass are producing great quality. RoBa and Bach methods are just so fast...

I'm trying to do the guide for both Bach and RoBa in english but I have to first do DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW quality tests for one major DVDRW dealer in UK... 8)

[TeeeRex]

Adder,

Tried OPV and yes it was fast and yes the quality was (IMO) on par with 4 pass - only trouble was that as you said, file prediction was tricky and I was 50 Mbyte over (doesn't that just P*&s you off..) Did it again and it was spot on..

Good to know though that if I'm in a rush this method produces quality equal to (or better than) 3 or 4 pass.. I'll have to get used to the trial and error file sizes though ...

Thanks for the info BTW.

TeeeRex

[Adder_78]

Adder,

Tried OPV and yes it was fast and yes the quality was (IMO) on par with 4 pass - only trouble was that as you said, file prediction was tricky and I was 50 Mbyte over (doesn't that just P*&s you off..) Did it again and it was spot on..

Good to know though that if I'm in a rush this method produces quality equal to (or better than) 3 or 4 pass.. I'll have to get used to the trial and error file sizes though ...

Thanks for the info BTW.

TeeeRex

There is some tools and even excel file that you can use to predict the file size, but still there is no 100% accurate system yet

But with experience you can "almost" everytime get the right Q value... 8)

One of the users of mpegit.net just translated my old OPV DVDR guide:
http://www.mpegit.net/dvdr_opv.php
There could be some bugs (and you could also use latest avisynth etc)... 8)

[bertmartin]

I just used DVDDecrypter and previewed the VOB with PowerDVD. About every second I get a pop of static which destroys the quality. I transcoded with DVD2one and got the same static. I got the latest version of DVDDecrypter and ran it again but got the same results. Any ideas whats causing this?
Bert