[MacDV] What does it take???

[Mike Rehbein]

On Oct 16, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Dennis Fazio wrote:

>
> On Oct 13, 2007, at Sat, Oct 13 2007, 1:39 am, Brett Conlon wrote:
>
>> So what is needed to get the "ripped" disc happily back onto a  
>> disc which
>> will play like a normal Disc???
>
> The most reliable way to get a DVD-player-capable backup copy of  
> your commercial DVD is with Mac the Ripper (preferably version 3 to  
> handle some of the newer disks with extended copy protection junk)  
> to decode onto your hard drive and either DVD2OneX or DVDRemaster  
> to recompress and write the new DVD. I think Popcorn will  
> recompress and write a video DVD also.

Add Toast Titanium 8 to the above list with regards to compressing  
down to a single DVD disk. Toast 7 and 6 may also but I no longer  
have those versions to check on that for you.


> Most 2 hour movies will decode to 6 or 7GB. You'll need to  
> recompress to get it back onto a 4.7GB DVD.
>
> Handbrake will decode many DVDs also. You can probably write a  
> playable video DVD with Toast if no compression is needed, but I  
> haven't done that myself.

I have and it really is nicely done. Toast 8 is the version I use and  
there is an option called "Automatic Encoding" to compressing  
automatically to fit to disk, using all the available space on a DVD,  
thus maximizing the quality.



> DVD2OneX and DVDRemaster will allow you to burn the movie only,  
> without the menus and extras and multiple languages, thereby  
> reducing the amount of compression needed and increasing the  
> quality of the final result.
>
> If you have a scratched disk, it might be reconstructed with a  
> cleaning and polishing. Many of the larger chain video rental  
> stores now have CD/DVD polishing machines that will refurbish the  
> surface for $4 or $5. It might be an easier path to try that first.
>
> -- 
> Dennis Fazio


Just a minor bit of additional info. Dennis has provided multiple  
means of getting your movie to DVD :)

Mike