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Old 02-01-2007   #48 (permalink)
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Re: For Help

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Originally Posted by Romulus13
I am very new to the forum and not sure I will even be able to find my way back to check if anyone has replied to this post so if anyone reads and has the time to drop me a line, would be appreciated. I am open to suggestion to different software but at the present time, I am using dvd fab to rip movies and convertxtodvd to do my converting/burning (though I have found to convert 4 episodes to a disc, it is taking me a couple hours and IF there is a faster program available, please point me in that direction lol. The biggest issue I am having is when I am trying to rip a copy of discs from a box set, dvd fab is splitting the dvd-9 disc to 2 discs. Putting episode 1 and 2 on disc 1 with extras and 3 and 4 to disc 2. I would rather lose all the extras and have 1 final disc with the 4 episodes on it, but not sure how to do this. I have sat for awhile and looked in the disc 1 and disc 2 section of dvd fab and not sure what streams, etc to remove to bring just the episodes to the 1 disc. I unfortunately am not the quickest when it comes to learning software but with some simple step by step, I will quickly grasp it so if anyone out there has the time to help me with this issue, would greatly appreciate it
John
Welcome to the forum, Romulus/John and I sure hope you can find you way back! Not sure which DVDFab program you have, but it is easy to make clean (no extras or menus) discs of TV shows with Platinum. Whether you can live with the large amount of compression it would take to get 4 on one DVD5 disc is something else. If you don't already have Platinum, you can download a full-function 30-day trial here and see if it works for you. For your purposes, you would probably want to use the "Customize" mode and keep an eye on the "Quality" number in the lower part of the window. It will start going down the more episodes you add to the DVD; I try to keep it above 80% or so but opinions on this differ based on what one is willing to accept in the final video quality. Might want to consider DVD9s if quality is really important to you.
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