Originally Posted by itzbinnice

Dave,
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by ripping to the hard drive first then processing.
When Clone DVD rips to the hard drive, it is in the stage of processing.

You should have AnyDVD running, it removes the copy protection, then Clonedvd processes the files, compressing as neccessary and writing the compressed files to your hard drive. Once on the hard drive it burns them.

You can do what is called burning on the fly, that is you need a DVD reader in addition to a DVD burner. You can have the reader read the DVD and set the target as your drive letter for the burner.
This process is not reccomended since things can go wrong and your left with a coaster.