DvdShrink and FILMED dvds

[sammo]

Hi

Is there any way to get good backups of filmed dvds (tv shows) with DVDShrink or Instantcopy. I tried to Back up OZ season1 with both with bad results. I mean, is pòssible to change some settings to get the best quality?

thx a lot

cheers, sammo

[ddlooping]

Hi sammo.

What version of DVD Shrink did you use, and what level of compression was applied?

[Vejita-sama]

DVD Shrink (and the other transcoders) work by removing part of the MPEG video data, this results in lower quaility. If you shrink the DVD a little the quaility lost might be below the ability to detect, shrink a lot and it's very noticable.

To shrink a large DVD9 disc (Oz ~8GB+) to a single DVDR (4.3GB) is going to result in a quaility hit. For best results try running DVD Shrink's 'deep analysis' first.

But for best results you really need to re-encode (TMPGenc, CCE, etc) the video instead of transcoding, then re-author the DVD. A more involved and much longer process, but it results in the best quaility.

[Gazorgan]

It's incredibly simple.

Re-Author mode and drag 2 eps (1 hour eps) per DVDR and go.

You can go 3 (1 hour) eps per DVDR, but you will want Deep Analysis for this. It's a trade-off of $1.20 DVDR versus an additional hour in the backup process versus quality.

[DoubleShadowIce]

Re-Author mode and drag 2 eps (1 hour eps) per DVDR and go.

You forgot the most important line. Re-authoring with DVD Shrink doesn't let you keep menus. Simple but menuless.

[sammo]

thx a lot for the help by the way

I'm using Dvdshrink 3 beta 5, the latest I think

When I say really bad results, I mean that I get tremors in the video why playing on my tv screen. some time ago when I convert DVD to svcd (before having DVD Burner) I solved this with a deinterlace filter, I can do that again encoding to DVD with Tmpgencoder, but I loose the menus, that's why I tried DVDShrink and Instantcopy. The result with Instantcopy was not bad at all, a few tremors every 2 minutes or so, but with DVDSrink it was a total crap, tremors all the time. DVDsrhink works really good with all the other stuff I encode in PAL. I guess the option I have is to encode the episodes my self and then author the DVD with DVD maestro or whatever...

thx a lot for your help dudes

[sammo]

One more thing, sorry

I'm in europe, so I play the dvds in a pal tv screen. I bought before NTSC dvd's (24 season1 and 2) and play nice in my dvd, I think that the backuped ntsc should play right too isn't?

don't think that has something to be with my problem, but I'll let you know

thx