Best Transcoding Software: My Results

[northcat_8]

If it was 50% with shrink it shouldn't have needed to be 50% with IC8.

In any event that is very possible. IC7 has suprised me. Typically if I have to take a movie under 80% I will do a movie only backup. But I did Scarface a while back and took it down to 65% and it looks great.

To be honest, I've never gotten pixelation in any DVD I've ever done. I will get a little noise around the edges of things if the compression is too much, but never pixelation, except for the one time when I started Word while it was encoding, pixelated for an instant, re-encoded the DVD with the dumbass factor removed (I went in the other room, while it was encoding) and it looked great.

I think the % you can compress is on a "per movie" basis. I've done some at 65% that were not good, while others looked great. I think the larger the main movie the better a higher compression will look. If the movie is small but there are so many extras that your main movie has to come down under 70% it won't look so good.

I'm doing Finding Nemo right now for my brother...his 3 year old made a peanut butter sandwich out of the 2 discs.... they had to buy a new one, so this time he asked me to back it up. But that movie has like 42 titles. I had to take the main movie down to 77% to get it to fit. We'll see how it looks when I get home, if it's crap, I'll do a movie only since the main movie is 4 GB.

[cybertlc]

It was actually 4 episodes of Voyager (45 mins each) per disc, but no extras (they had a bonus disc for that). They aren't one LONG movie, but 4 smaller ones, and the compression was at 50% and it still looked VERY GOOD (and I'm extremely picky). All I can say is that I'm happy with IC8, having had issues with some of the other programs out there

[shelbyGT]

great, ic8 works for you.

dvdshrink works for me.

clonedvd works for others, et cetera....


it's whatever you want.

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