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  1. I have all 45 Twilight Zone DVD's (all DVD5). They are not in order by episode#/air date. I would like to redo them so that they are, and compress so that I have far fewer than 45 DVDR's. So far, I have the first 20 discs ripped to file mode with decrypter on my hard drive.

    Originally, they are either 3 (2 half hr eps + 1 50 min. ep) or 4 (4 half hr eps) per disc. I know that this is entirely subjective, but when squeezing more on a disk (reauthored-movie only), what compression % would you look for and what aec quality setting would you use in shrink with that %. Just trying to hear out some options, that's all, thx much.
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    Originally Posted by HatchetMan
    I have all 45 Twilight Zone DVD's (all DVD5). They are not in order by episode#/air date. I would like to redo them so that they are, and compress so that I have far fewer than 45 DVDR's. So far, I have the first 20 discs ripped to file mode with decrypter on my hard drive.

    Originally, they are either 3 (2 half hr eps + 1 50 min. ep) or 4 (4 half hr eps) per disc. I know that this is entirely subjective, but when squeezing more on a disk (reauthored-movie only), what compression % would you look for and what aec quality setting would you use in shrink with that %. Just trying to hear out some options, that's all, thx much.
    If you dont need to keep original menus, then it can be done very easily with TMPEG DVD Author (just remember to rip discs to your hdd first with i.e. DVDDecrypter in File Mode - they can't be copy protected).
    And if you want to add more episodes on each disc, then you can create "oversized" discs with TDA (larger than 4.3GB) and in next step have such oversized disc reencoded or transcoded down to the DVD5 size with your favorite software.

    In the past I would author the "oversized" disc with TDA in about 5.5-6GB size range (using original VOBs of episodes). Then I would reencode video with Cinema Craft Encoder at 4-pass VBR with appropiate bitrate range (depending what and how many audio tracks I would keep), this way I would have it at possibly best quality, but its a lengthy process... which nowaday can be avoided with simple DVD9 blanks and DL writer for less than $100, so today I would just author new DVD9 disc with some siple menu and as many original episode's VOBs as it would fit on the disc
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