Best way to backup The Last Samurai?

[zoneless]

Hello. Anyone has any suggestion for backing up The Last Samurai? I opened it in DVD Shrink and it is compressed to 51.9%

[lafrede]

just keep the menu and movie. I did it that way and everything looks graat!

[Chip718]

I used Nero Recode. I backedup just the movie and cut off most of the end credits. I managed to get the compression to 69%

[budz]

I used shrink and did it at 51% with the deep analysis but I don't think it makes much of a difference. Some will say it does but I couldn't tell.

[nufan292]

For best possible quality I went with DVD-RB and CCE.

[bdf24]

Backup to two DVD-R's.

[samuraijack]

I ran the movie through DVDShrink with the movie only and only the needed soundtracks with No Compression. Then I used the input from that to encode with DVD Rebuilder. Stunning.

[silvergator]

I used dvd2svcd (most currnet version) using CCE as the encoder and the special plug-in that is bundled with dvd2svcd. The plug-in makes a one pass close to looking like a 4 or 5 pass encode. You can't tell the difference from the original. Took about 4 hours though.

[Bronx]

Backup to two DVD-R's.

Same here.

[gabbysdad]

I backed it up to 2 discs for disc 1 using DVD decrypter, then splitting and burning with Intervideo DVDcopy, and then backed up Disc 2 using DVD shrink and all was well.

Back up to 2 discs, best method to not lose quality.
Other than that, buy the new Benq DL burner, spend $$ for some dual layer DVD+R and copy with no loss!

[Chip718]

Is CCE difficult to use?

[noki]

Ripped with Decrypter, movie only with 3 secs of closing credit with Shrink 3..0 beta5 (compression was 69% I think), burned with CopyToDVD...looks like original.

[stillmars321]

try vobblanker and then try dvdshrink

[Josef K]

Anyone has any suggestion for backing up The Last Samurai?

Just make sure to label the backup correctly as 'The Penultimate Samurai'.

[Shudder]

Is CCE difficult to use?

Not if you wrap DVD-REbuilder around it.

[Chip718]

Thanks, Shudder.

Does anyone know if CCE is available for download?

[TeeeRex]

for those using recoding methods - don't forget the forced subs (unless you understand japanese that is ... - on the R2 they are 2nd set of subs not the first (in their own sub stream).

Just did it myself using DVD2SVCD with the RobA plugin (one pass VBR with a result that matches 4-5 pass CCE), used Vobsub to create the forced subs, IfoEdit to create the vobs and good old Nero to burn.

For a long movie - I am very impressed with the quality I achieved - soooo much better than DVDShrink....

[djelimon]

Backup to two DVD-R's.

Agreed

Although Teeeerex provides food for thought.

[glockjs]

i did it with shrink and it looks perfect

[axolotls]

I made it easy on myself to back up my own LS DVD

I used DVDShrink to put CH1 - 20 on 1 DVD
then used it again to put CH21-End on another DVD

Perfect Copy. I wouldn't want to compress this movie at all.