Critical part of the DVD backup process is?

[buffotoad]

I am new at this and am trying to understand, so please correct me if I am wrong.

Backing up a DVD requires 3 parts - rip, shrink, burn.

Question: Am I correct that the part of this process that is most critical to quality is the shrinking part? And that the ripping and burning parts don't really interfere with the quality of the backup (assuming that the backup works on my players)?

Thanks.

[ebenton]

You forgot decrypting, unless you are not talking about DVD movies.
Decrypting might be considered a subset of ripping, I guess.

Shrinking is only necessary if the files are too big to fit on one DVD.

But yes, as far as video quality is concerned, the most critical part is shrinking.
Ripping and burning don't generally affect video quality.

[bugster]

Critical part of the DVD backup process is?

Selecting the right media type/brand

[buffotoad]

Thanks for the help!