Instantcopy bad quality!

[Espen]

I have tested Instantcopy on alot of movies and as far as the movie is 7 gb or smaller it produce a nice outpot quality after the encoding. However I just tried The Sum Of All Fears, about 8gb. I strip the audio and subtitles just keep the english 5.1 sound. I set all the extras to 42 % and main movie to 76% and ended up with 4,36gb pdi files.

I then run some quality tests. The extras looked prety bad, but I had not expect anything els, because only 42% of original. Then I tested the main movie on my 32' TV and it looked almost as good the original. But when I run the movie in Power DVD and zoom 9x it looked very very blocky. It was blocks almost all over the screen and thats not good. So I guess it's not recomanded to reduce main movie under 80%. Thats my conclusion anyway after this test.

What experienc do you peopel have of backing up big movies(around 8gb) with Instat?

[DVDman]

Yeah, 80% is about right. Anything below sucks. I don't know about zooming in at 9X Even the original will have some blocks at 9X.

[Valnar]

I tend to not watch my movies zoomed. I did Rocky Horror at 56% recently and it turned out okay. Of course, the source is pretty old, so it didn't look great to begin with.

-Robert

[mrbass]

in that case strip off some extras or reduce to 30% (basically there but no watchable) to get main movie over 80% and you'll have awesome quality. Zoom 9 times on the original has no blocks?

[Espen]

Well I tried the same movie with dvd2dvdr (using CCE) and it didn't come out much better. I guess that the original movie quality is pretty crapy so I should not blame Instant for this I guess.