I have not yet tried making copies of episodic DVD's. Is there anything I need to change vs making a copy of a regular movie?

I use AnyDVD running in the background and DVDShrink usually to copy regular movies.

Nothing special to change, You can copy it like regular movie dvds, except that you've with episodics more dvds.

It actually is more convienient because you can split episodes if you want to keep quality higher. TV often needs higher transcode percentages than other programs.

I am in the habit of only pulling the main title over and deleting all the subtitles and all but one soundtrack, when I copy a movie. I don't care about bonus stuff etc.

Do I need to keep the menus for episodic DVD's? And how would one split an episode?

I'm obviously very new at this business I appreciate any and all help or advice !

You don't have too but it is convienient. I didn't mean split an individual episode, just that you can put different episodes on different discs.

In order to keep 100% quality instead of compressing.

For episode dvd's that I compress I use:
1. Menushrink (shrinks the menu down to still - frames but retains all functionality)
2. Vobblanker to blank any 'rubbish' (trailers/fbi warnings etc)
3. Dvd rebuilder (with cce) (keeps the structure, easy to use and good quality)

For episode dvd's that I cant be bothered recompressing I split onto 2 DVD-R's
1. Vobblanker - save one version off with 1/2 the episodes blanked
2. vobblanker - save one version off with the other 1/2 the episodes blanked
3. imgtool to make ISO's up of the 2 discs

BTW: Vobblanker removes the video/audio without destroying the structure - really is a fantastic tool.

Cheers,
Bitey

Much simplier to use clonedvd2 or shrink and just select as many titles that will fit to your disc depending on how much compression you want to use generally you can fit 2 one hour eposodes per dvd-5 media without compression .