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When using Nero to burn a DVD, I must use Nero Recode if the DVD won't
fit on one disc. Before I burn the DVD in recode, it says 'Main Movie -
76%' and 'Extras - 47%'. I am assuming this means to make it fit I will
lose some quality. Is there any way to make it so the 'Main Movie'
becomes 100% and I can just fit the 'Extras' at 100% on a second disc?

I would prefer to do this in Nero if possible. I know about the DVDR
help page already but I wamt to only use Nero.

Thanks,
Warren

The only thing that I can think of off hand that would help you would be to
find a program called DVD2ONE (make sure you have the updated version 1.3.0)
and use the full-disk option and set the output size to something that will
fit on your blank. Then use Nero to burn the processed files. I have been
using this to shrink video without any notieable video quality loss.

Some main movies are over 4.7gb so you will always lose quality when burning
to 4.7gb DVD discs. You can consider using other programs like DVD Shrink or
DVD Decryptor to rip each video separately.

Warren Barr wrote:

> When using Nero to burn a DVD, I must use Nero Recode if the DVD won't
> fit on one disc. Before I burn the DVD in recode, it says 'Main Movie -
> 76%' and 'Extras - 47%'. I am assuming this means to make it fit I will
> lose some quality. Is there any way to make it so the 'Main Movie'
> becomes 100% and I can just fit the 'Extras' at 100% on a second disc?
>
> I would prefer to do this in Nero if possible. I know about the DVDR
> help page already but I wamt to only use Nero.
>
> Thanks,
> Warren

>Is there any way to make it so the 'Main Movie'
>becomes 100% and I can just fit the 'Extras' at 100% on a second disc?

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>I would prefer to do this in Nero if possible. I know about the DVDR
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then you'll use 2 discs. BG

Will I lose any quality with that program?

You are going to lose quality with *any* program that recompresses the video
to fit on a single disk. The best tools for DVD backup IMHO, are
Smartripper, or DVD Decrypter. Either one will rip the source DVD to your
harddrive, and will remove the DVD encryption. Then, use a program like
DVD2One to shrink the source files to fit on a single disk. There are other
programs like DVDFab that will split a movie to 2 recordable disks, or allow
you to keep just the movie, and toss out special features, commentary,
alternate languages, etc. There's not a one-click does all solution that
works for everything. DVDXcopy is the closest to that, but I had a lot of
trouble with it not working on some titles. Just an FYI, even when the video
is recompressed, the quality loss is almost undiscernable to the eye in most
cases IMHO. My advice would be to simply try the above programs, (many are
free downloads) and use a DVD RW disc to test the quality of the various
methods. If the quality doesn't meet your requirements, you haven't wasted a
disc. Simply erase the DVD RW.


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