InstantCopy 7 is available !!!

[Colt45]

gobama, you need to either rip the DVD directly to an ISO image or make an ISO from your ripped files. Then you can use Daemon tools to mount the image as a virtual DVD, then InstantCopy will work properly.

[NightWing]

Here is the system:

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HARDWARE
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Asus Terminator computer { the little one }
AMD 1900+
256mb PC133 SD ram
1) 10GB WD 7200 [OS/Mpeg storage after compressing]
1) 80GB Maxtor 7200 liquid bearing [Capture Only]
1) Sony DRU500A Firmware 1.0g Bld BD Jan 10, 2003

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ADD ON HARDWARE
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Pinnacle sys DC10+

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BASE SOFTWARE
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Windows 98SE { no Patches }
VIA low level drivers { for video/sound/LAN/chipset}

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VIDEO SOFTWARE
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Studio 1.06 { for DC10+ }
Nero 5.5.10.7b { From Feb 03 }
DVDDcriptor { 3.1.4.0 }
SmartRipper { 2.41 }
Tmpeg { 2.59.47.155 }
Virtual Dub { 1.4.9 Bld 13720 }
DVD2AVI
Instant Copy Demo {7.0.0.91}
IFOEdit {95}

Only have Nero and what burning software that in DVDDcriptor and Instant Copy.

Note that I did not install any stuff from the Sony disk. Jus the stuff with W98se and Nero. Works great even on Memorex DVD-RW media on a Sharp 600 player. No games DirectX beyond W98se version etc is loaded on this system. A basic video only box.

OOPS: Forgot the 10gb and Sony are on the same IDE channel with the 80gb on the seconday channel.

[jowel13]

What setting are you using with the program ASPI or ASAPI? Does it really make a difference?

[Doggiedaddy]

Hi All
I had to download a download manager to get this darn thing to my computer. No ftp so I used download accelorator, after a few days of no success. Manager did the job and I am now doing My Big Fat Greek Wedding looks good so far, half done, seem it will take a couple hours to do the job I will post again if anyone seems interested. All my units are working their a**es off now I am on one of the Linux unit so forgive the post problems.

Strength and Honor

[neonflx]

Is there an alternate site to download this, is taking me days ans i can't seem to be able to stay connected to finish downloading, tia.

[Doggiedaddy]

Like I said I had to use a download manager, and just maybe got lucky. I tried for days before I used the manager, I don't use a manager as a rule but it seemed to help in this case??

[NightWing]

jowel13

Will check when its finish the current test of a seamless branching disk. I think its the later. About 80minutes from now.

Oh the werd Tenchi disk is way under 4 gb but will try it anyway.

Hope they have a 2nd link for the US or they will be a small explosion of a server in Germany!

[mickeyace]

Well I have tested both DVD2One and instant copy here is my 2 cents. I ripped a coopy of Star Wars EP2. Used both pieces of software and played them back on my 51" HDTV. The only thing I can tell you is unless you have some exra vision or something I can not see a bit of differenece between the 2 movies I also popped in the original movie and I can't see any significant differeence in that either. Both softwares do an incredible job. It just depends on if you want a copy as close as possible to riginal with all the menus and all then get Instant copy if you don't care then dvd2one is great too. Just my thoughts on this. Now I am sure someone out there has a 1200 inch TV that is going to say he can see some distortion or something, but for the average guy like me I can't...

[Jacetx]

Does this program burn as well as compress? Or do i still need a seperate burning program as well?

Thanks for any help.

[KungFuCow]

After you rip the DVD, it handles the rest. Put a blank in, set your parameters, walk off. I backed up Formula 51 with it and it plays flawlessly on all my players. I was leaning towards buying DVD2One before seeing this software. Despite the fact that it isn't as fast as DVD2One, the fact that it basically does the whole movie is a plus for me. Pinnacle will be getting my cash for this software.

[soundforbjt]

After trying out the demo on a 7.5gb dvd, I have purchased this from J&R. $19.88 + $4.95 shipping after rebate! This rocks. I also have DVD2One which I will use for movies I have that I don't care about the menu's etc.

[mickeyace]

SOUNDFORBJT:

You purchased Insant Copy for 19+ship. Can you give me more info on this J7R I would like to buy a copy too. When is it avaliable? Most places say march 14th... Thanks

[soundforbjt]

Here's the link to purchase it from J&R and it also has the .pdf file for the rebate.

Link

[MackemX]

Well I have tested both DVD2One and instant copy here is my 2 cents. I ripped a coopy of Star Wars EP2. Used both pieces of software and played them back on my 51" HDTV. The only thing I can tell you is unless you have some exra vision or something I can not see a bit of differenece between the 2 movies I also popped in the original movie and I can't see any significant differeence in that either. Both softwares do an incredible job. It just depends on if you want a copy as close as possible to riginal with all the menus and all then get Instant copy if you don't care then dvd2one is great too. Just my thoughts on this. Now I am sure someone out there has a 1200 inch TV that is going to say he can see some distortion or something, but for the average guy like me I can't...

size is irrelevant
I have a 20" TV at the moment and u CAN tell the difference in places between the original & both DVD2one/Instantcopy watching in realtime and not zooming or pausing the DVD either. You don't have to have Superman eyesight either to see this

DVD2One's quality suffers more when on the dark scenes (large blocks and crawling), and it also produces a slightly darker picture in the end result, the larger the original movie file the more noticable this is. You also see the same effects on places where the whole pic or large parts of the pic are the same colour. InstantCopy does the same but on a smaller scale

DVD2One cannot be beaten by any other program on a Quality/Speed ratio, but quality wise it is SLIGHTY less than the rest (depends on size of movie). Try doing Saving Private Ryan and you will see what I mean

What did you keep on the DVD2one copy and the what with Instantcopy, are both the main movie files the same size in your end result or did you lose menus with DVD2One & kept extras with InstantCopy?

[Neoh]

I had done the first X-files season 2 dvd with no probs. I just did the 2nd during the night and I have some problems:
The menus are not right: When i chose an episode it is supose to show me the episode menu but it does it for the 1 only, for the other the main menu stays but the buttons are at the right place.
I have no subtitles but it stills shows me that I have them.

PS: the only thing I did is apply that little reg Hack, will retry without that reg hack.

[MackemX]

PS: the only thing I did is apply that little reg Hack, will retry without that reg hack.

the reg hack just enables you to select which Titles to keep and what % of size also for each seperate title

What size did u do it on Season 2, I try to leave my menu's as large as possible (less than 60% you may be asking for trouble), but make the extras a lot smaller then see what's left for the movie

Okay so far, just done Simpsons Season 1 NTSC no problems

[toolman2k]

I had done the first X-files season 2 dvd with no probs. I just did the 2nd during the night and I have some problems:
The menus are not right: When i chose an episode it is supose to show me the episode menu but it does it for the 1 only, for the other the main menu stays but the buttons are at the right place.
I have no subtitles but it stills shows me that I have them.

PS: the only thing I did is apply that little reg Hack, will retry without that reg hack.

exact same problem here! i have missing subs also!! i selected EN and dutch ones on band of brothers disc 2 PAL, but i only get the en ones.please let me know what happens without the reg hack !

i will try to keep all subs, and see how that works....

[gobama]

kewl, thanks for the info I'll try it again after ripping to an iso image with decryptor. 8)

[agzz]

Ok i have now tried this on Snatch and das experiment, two movies i have done the right way before. that is with CCE and a bit of manual labour. and I have also done them with DVD2One. Maby 2 movies is not enought for a compariation but it will hav to do.

My findings is the same on both movies.

DVD2One:
DVD2One is by far the fastest, on my old computer its 30min for the moviework and anouther 30 for burning. the picture quality is not good at all. It looks bad from whre i sit 10+ feet away. You only get the movie if you dont use something like Jdobbs MakeItEasy. And that would only lower the quality even more. So if you have to hurry rip the movie and return it to the rentals you use this. You will get a bad DVDRIP, with low quality, no extras and no menus.

InstantCopy:
With InstantCopy atleast you can keep menus and extras, so you will actually get a backup with this, , but it takes its time. Now i forgot to time it both times :/ but the last time i set it up as i wanted the output, started it, chated for a while, went to sleep and woke up 6h later and it was burning the DVD. so about 7h from DVD to DVDr and thats not fast. Just like DVD2One this is easy to use. The quality is better than with DVD2One even with the disc (when done) have 600mb of extras and menues, but you still se artifacts even on video only reduced by less than 20%. And the output, the output. With it burnt on DVDr, i have to rip it and fix the ifos so menus will work correctly and there is no way of naming the disc . thats anouther hour. If you output till disc what do you get? bah, just vobs, thats what i got, that means more work.
This progg will give you a low - ok quality backup the easiest possible way.

The Right Way:
Doing things the right way need more skills ofcorse, but now there are tools that help you alot and its not hard anymore. It takes about 7-8h to make a perfect DVD to DVDr. Picture quality with CCE is by far supperior. you can reduce with 40% and more and get better quality than reducing 10% with DVD2One. And with about a min af manual labour you have the original menus in place and working.
Doing it the right way will give you a perfect backup to place in the disc collector while the original goes back the book shelf. you will need to spend a few hour learning first time, but its worth it.

Conclusion:
Stay away from DVD2One.
Use Instant Copy if you dont want to spend a day learning things and if you dont mind the lower quality.
Do it the right way if you want quality and dont mind doing a bit of work yourself.

thats my 2 cent.
I shall now give I.C. a chance on a multi episode disc and se how it manages . if it does ok, i may have found use for it.

[MackemX]

InstantCopy:
but it takes its time. Now i forgot to time it both times :/ but the last time i set it up as i wanted the output, started it, chated for a while, went to sleep and woke up 6h later and it was burning the DVD. so about 7h from DVD to DVDr and thats not fast.

How powerful is your computer? I have XP2100 and it took 2 hours to process Simpsons Season 1 Disc 2 which is 7.69GB, does not include ripping & burning which is another 30mins. Took 110 mins for Disc 1

And with about a min af manual labour you have the original menus in place and working.

I shall now give I.C. a chance on a multi episode disc and se how it manages . if it does ok, i may have found use for it.

u sure it's that easy to get menu's, I agree it's easy to use CCE once you know how but some DVD's (Multiple PGC's (AOTC springs to mind)) are not so easy to include menu's

[MackemX]

the answer to previewing and re-editing the PDI files before burning is here

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=143805

you can also use any burning software too as it basically converts the PDI file to the VIDEO_TS folder and its contents

[agzz]

MackemX. i have a amd athlon 750MHz. hence the speed, or lack of it.
as long as you author things right, adding menus is just: 1, 2, 3, 4 done

[agzz]

anouther thing, i cant find any possibility to use the whole dvdr. 3.7gb is stupid. that leaves 600Mb unused.

[Scarpad]

I think ur being a little hard on dvd2one but it seemed like a fair comparison

I'm not sure. I don't see why DVD2one is getting C's all over the place. I've done alot of disks, viewed them in Anamorphic Widescreen on a 65" Mits ISF Calibrated set, and all of them have been nothing short of Excellent. Now to Instantcopy

I Did the Banger Sisters Last night (well you know what I mean.)

The movie's a flipper with P&S on one side 16x9 on the other. Both with extras,menus ect was a paltry 4.28. Everything could be maintained. And the result is nothing Short of fantastic. True One for one. With all vid at 100%. It's here Instantcopy shine.

Now I am trying XXX. This disk has video at a so, so bitrate and alot of extras. I have not done the Hack yet so I had to keep everything. Dropped all the Extras and Menus to 30%, and I had to reduce the movie to about 83%. I started about 6:30am and it now almost 10:30 it'll be done shortly. I have an Athlon 1700 with 256meg of ram. So around 4 Hours or so, we'll see what the main movie looks like. I've done this movie with DVD2one as well so it's a good compare.

[agzz]

I think ur being a little hard on dvd2one but it seemed like a fair comparison

I'm not sure. I don't see why DVD2one is getting C's all over the place. I've done alot of disks, viewed them in Anamorphic Widescreen on a 65" Mits ISF Calibrated set, and all of them have been nothing short of Excellent. Now to Instantcopy.

well Quality is in the eye of the beholder. to bad for me..

[mickeyace]

Here is my first problem with Instant copy, I have done Star Wars 2 and The patriot. Now I went to do LOTR 1, Each time I run the IC it locks up and gives you one of those great would you like to report this error to microsoft things. Anyone have any ideal what could be causeing this thing to shut down like this. I am using smart ripper to rip the movie to the hard drive. Should I use another? Thanks for any help..

[NightWing]

Try this.

After doing a rip to the HD do a reset on the machine. IE reboot then run. On one of the test I did, it lock up on me and doing that cured the problem. Strange but did solve the problem.

It would be nice to have a shutdown click in IC when done like TMPEG for batch files.

[Scarpad]

Well this isn't good here's my XXX Report.

I reduced all the extras to 30% the disk was too large to fit so on my last step I reduced the movie to 83% and wass told I was at 4.31 in the green and good to go. 4 Hours later.... on to burn the PDI File being told it's too large for the Disk... I look it's 4.68gb. What happened? No what try again and 4 hours later maybe get burnable results??? Hmm for the macro amount this looks better than DVD2One (If that's even true I have'nt seen a result with this yet on anything that has to be transcoded) DVD2one just seems my obvious choice. Instantcopy maybe when the movie will fit anyhow.

[MackemX]

I'm not sure. I don't see why DVD2one is getting C's all over the place. I've done alot of disks, viewed them in Anamorphic Widescreen on a 65" Mits ISF Calibrated set, and all of them have been nothing short of Excellent.

you sure?
so that means CCE would be absolutely amazing on your big screen, if it makes DVD2One nothing short of excellent, and Instant Copy would be inbetween

what's it like darker scenes, or scenes with large colour sections and you will see pulsing and dot crawl, and fast action scenes well artifacts are more than apparent!,

lighter and slow moving scenes are less noticable but the difference is still there, and that doesn't mean PAUSE/ZOOM

The bigger the main movie file the bigger the difference in quality, my worst DVD2One example is Saving Private Ryan so far, so Pearl Harbour would suffer badly using DVD2One I guess

plus the bigger the TV the more likely you should be able to see the quality differences!

[JasonK]

I'll drink to that! CCE all the way!