What are some ways in that the quality of the movie can be affected (during the burning process)?

If the burn is not good, playback can be stuttered or freeze in some points

Hi there

When burning dvd movies, the quality is affected by the following (based on a 4.7GB DVD-R)

* Other languages (only choose the language you prefer)
* Choose either DD or DTS or both, but both will affect image quality
* Subtitles and / or directors commentary (some are huge).

If you want complete one copies, i would get a DL disc (some movies are such high quality (appear as red in quality in clonedvd2), that only DL will resolve this. The DL discs cost around $10 Australian.

Rodney

Is it possible to burn an entire DVD (including extra features, subtitles, cast interview, etc) on 4.7gb DVD? im assuming it depends on the length of the movie. I was reading that most people only backup the main movie, not all the features.

Yes, it's possible. The more you retain on a DVD the more you must compress to fit on a single layer DVD.

If source disc is single layer, then you don't need any compression.

Most people backup only main movie for two main reasons:

1) backing up only main movie is possible to compress lesser the movie

2) some users think that other contents of a DVD is only useless crap and want to get rid ot that

if you want extras, you can put it on the second disc