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This guide shows how to
copy a DVD-9 to a single DVD±R using DVD Shrink 3.1.x. The
old guide considering DVD Shrink 3.0 Beta 5 is still on the site
but
I suggest you use this one as there are many bug fixes and many new
features as well, like DVD burning and many more. Keep in mind that
you should have a version of Nero that supports DVD burning, I suggest
Nero 6, to use DVD Burning. Enough with talking, let's start with
the guide now!
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Let's
open DVD Shrink 3.1. We may need to change some settings first
so select Edit -> Preferences.
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In the
first tab make sure that DVD-5 is selected as the target size.
(1) Select Automatically open VIDEO_TS subfolders. Now, the low-priority
mode helps your computer and if you plan to do other things while
encoding and your PC is not that fast I suggest you check it.
If you just leave it alone to do the encoding or you have a fast
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In the
Output Files put the settings as you see them here (they are
the default ones).
In the other two
tabs, Preview and Stream Selections put whatever you think
the best. (Stream selections, just save your time, but you
better select them differently for every DVD).
When you're done
click OK.
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After you're done
with that click the Open Disc button in the main DVD Shrink window and
there select the drive that you have the DVD you want to copy in. Click
OK. |
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Then DVD Shrink
will do a small analysis of the DVD and it is going to load it in the
main window. |
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This is how
DVD Shrink should look after the DVD is loaded. See the bar that is
all green? It shows that DVD Shrink has automatically set the compression
and now we can make our copy. If you want to keep everything (menus,
extras etc) click Backup! now.
What I suggest is that you
keep only the main movie so that you get much better quality. To
do that click Re-author.
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This the the screen
you should see after clicking Re-author. You can drag-and-drop anything
you want from the right to the left and it is going to be included in
your DVD. Be carefull: drop only the main movie and any extras you want,
the menus are not going to work this way, you have to back-up the full
disc. Now copy the main movie in the left. |
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The main movie
is now in our re-authored DVD. Now click Compression Settings. |
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These are the compression
settings. They are the same as we know them from 3.0 Beta 5, just the
look has changed. I suggest you leave only one Audio stream to save space.
Leave compression to Automatic it just gets you the best quality you
can get. At Subpicture you can select subtitles, not shown here but select
as many you want as they are about 1 MB each. |
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Time to
back-up our DVD. Select Backup! from the DVD Shrink toolbar.
First you have to
select what to do. If you have Nero installed you can select
to burn the DVD (what I have selected) directly or create a
DVD image. If you don't have Nero select to create the DVD
files for later burning like the old DVD Shrink was doing.
Also select the Temp
folder. It can be any folder, but remember that after the burn
DVD Shrink doesn't delete the files, you have to do it yourself.
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Now select the
DVD Region tab. Here I suggest you create a region-free. Of course
you can select other regions, but you have nothing to earn as region-free
discs are playable in all DVD players around the world.
After that select the Backup
Options tab.
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Here you can select
Deep Analysis (1). This will give you better quality but will take the
double time. If you don't care about time I suggest you use it. The Low
priority mode (2) is explained in Step 2, if you selected it there, select
it here too. The third and fourth options are obvious! |
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Finally at the
burn options input the volume labe (1) and select option (2) if you want
DVD Shrink to erase already written DVD±RW discs. Finally click
OK to start the back-up! |
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Finally DVD Shrink
will start encoding. If you have selected just to output the DVD files
that's all it is going to do... |
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... if not, it
will start burning the disc. |
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Finally it finishes!
Now you have a nice back up! |
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