Best program for multiepisod DVD:s?

[Espen]

I use IC7 for 90% and DVD2DVDR for some very long movies. However these program dosen't work that great for multiepisod dvd. If I use IC I have to compress the quality down to about 55% and thats to low. DVD2DVDR dosen't work on multi PGC.

Is there any program how handel those multiepisod disc good?

[fargoman]

Use Shrink, do a high level of compression on the title's and extra's leaving most episodes with less than 20% compression, run deep analysis over that and your set!

[Espen]

Yes, but if the dvd is 7,4gb and no extras you can't get away with 20 compression, even with shrink right? You have to compress it as much as in IC.......

[fargoman]

With Shrink you can also edit the clips to cut rolling end credits to free up valuable space as well...all episodics I have done still come out nice using this method on a 42" HDTV.

[Espen]

Oki I will test Shrink, but I have a hard time belive it will come out better than IC7..........

[fargoman]

I've never used IC7, but cut the credits shrink the crap out of the menus and any features at all, run deep analysis and it should work well. I've done my mobster episodes that way and have great results.

[DeadLamb]

I've found that for backing up TV seasons, splitting them over 2 dvdr seems to work best. Use to be that TV on DVD was sort of a low level, so crushing them was no big deal, they were no that great looking in the first place.. Ah but now TV show are rolling out in letterbox and so on I don't want to crush the eps anymore..

I backed up season one of a show with DVDshrink doing the flip flop method, as in 4 eps on each disk so disk 1a gets ep 1,2 with 3,4 crushed to still pics.. then of course disk 1b gets 1,2 crushed to still and ep 3,4 let alone.. Worked ok but took a little time

then for season 2 of the show I ran DVDfab at it and that just worked even better.. Just run the wizard and it splits the disks clean in two.. Menus on each disk, two eps per a dvd-r disk. quick and plainless...

Even work fine for shows with 30min per an ep.. In that case it just drops 4 per a disk.. With box sets running sort of high, I don't have an issue with just breaking out more DVD-r to back the set up.. Errrrrrrrrr sep geeesh it tears past the disk. Go from lots of blank disks to "Huh!!? I'm out?!" heh

[ccbadd]

I have used Nero Recode 2 with advanced analasis and they seem to come out great to me. I know that it was writen by the author of shrink and is somewhat similar, but I like it better than shrink.

[dafreak]

on episodic disks, how do you make dvdshrink show each title separately instead of lumping them together like title 1-4?

[lordsmurf]

DVD Shrink, use the guides at www.lordsmurf.com

[dafreak]

heh, I'm pretty familiar on how to use dvdshrink, but I've noticed with the new dvdshrink, that if there are more than one main movie titles, they will be lumped together.

eg.
main movie folder
-titles 1-4


whereas it used to list them separately.

eg.
main movie folder
-title 1
-title 2
-title 3
-title 4

Is there a setting or a method to revert it back to listing the movie titles separately?