Dvd Rebuilder Pro question

[ultraman36]

Ok I brought the movie The Cave. I used Dvd Fab then tried ti use Dvd shrink for some reason the extras were all down to 43% and the movie was at 98% compression and i still didnt have enought space to make a dvd-r. Dvd shrink wouldnt let me compress anything anymore so i went ahead and brought Dvd Rebuilder pro and the basic CCE encoder. Ive been looking at some guides but havent had time. some guides say you need avi sync which i did download but am not familiar on how to use this as i dont see a way to install it. For those who have it DVD r pro what are some basic settings you use to keep the quality of the movie good?

[guns1inger]

The installer for DVD Rebuilder pro would have installed everything you need except CCE. If CCE was already installed, DVD RB would have configured itself to use CCE.

After that it should just be a matter of loading up the DVD files from your HDD, and setting it to work.

As for quality - you are limited to a maximum of 2 passes with CCE basic - use both of them.

For this particular disk, I would ditch one or more of the extras to make it all fit, or split the disk if you really need to kkep them. With the movie at 98% you are so close to not need to compress it doesn't seem worth all this hassle.

[kush]

To expand on the previous point a bit, yes DVDRB (and Pro ver) installers both include a "basic" version of Avisynth - enough for RB's purposes. What is actually taken out of it, I don't recall..IOW, if you find yourself wanting to get into the manual conversion process (ie: DIVX/XVID>DVD), you would most likely want to install the "full" version of AviSynth that you apparently downloaded. However, if you already installed that, and not the RB version, there's no need (I don't think) to either do the RB version or uninstall full/reinstall lite version.

ps - Have you tried 1/2 D1 & 1/2 space for the extras? Unless you absolutely have to have top quality, and watch them alot, I'd start there and give some valuable bitrate back to the actual film. Either way, maybe it's a good idea anyway, as 1/2 D1/space won't end up looking all that bad - you may end up wanting to use a sharpen filter on it though as the PQ won't be quite as clear as full D1. It could also however improve an other wise crappy PQ, as @ 1/2 D1 it doesn't need ALL (1/2?) the bitrate as full. You also may want to look into using a 3rd party RB/ecl tweaker like RBopt - you can further tweak the bitrates on a cell by cell basis (ie: dump the bitrate on end credits and whatnot).

pps Another thing to look @ - how big are the menus on the film? If they're big, ie: motion menus/lots of audio/etc, maybe look @ preprocessing in a tool that allows diddling with menus like DVD Shrink (although leave everything else @ NO COMPRESSION)..

Also, DVD Remake (pro) to kill the silly fbi warnings/trailers and other extraneous crap can free up alot of space sometimes (ie: Paramount releases)...WARNING though - this may cause problems w/ DVD Rebuilder. I haven't had a problem myself, but then again I have only taken the menu shrink step on a few discs, and Remake has been flawless for me (once I figured how to use it right! ie: v1.4x? gave problems in the past, v3.0+ has been fine).

/blabber (not enough morning coffee yet )

[edit] sorry totally missed your point on the % drops before - sounds like the main movie has all the bitrate it needs..Maybe click the "1/2 D1 for extras" (in the "mode" menu - not 1/2 D1/space for extras) is all you would need to imporve the PQ a bit (even @ 43%), as it effectively only needs 1/2 the pixels compared to full D1.