CloneDVD 2 Released !!

[Lazza]

Experience top quality home theatre!

http://www.elby.ch/images/sheep_victory_large.gif CloneDVD 2 copies movies in unparalleled picture quality. If it's only the main movie or a complete DVD – CloneDVD compresses even long footage in brilliant quality and at high speed: A special transcoding technology compresses your choice of DVD titles according to your audio and language selection automatically to a freely adjustable target size. Our unique Film Strip assistant will guide you step by step through all settings. With the help of the Video Preview you select the desired DVD titles and decide if you want to trim individual chapters. Quality bars show the direct influence of the title and language selection on the quality of the movie copy. Even beginners always keep track. Convince yourself and download the trial version now!

Additionally to CloneDVD 2 we provide a free download of „Virtual CloneDrive“ which will also be included in the future box version. Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical DVD drive, although it only exists virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD can be “inserted” into the virtual drive from your harddisk or from a network drive and thus be used like a normal DVD.

http://www.elby.ch/en/products/clone_dvd/index.html

[Jesterrace]

How does it compare to Shrink?

[nimbles]

they got the default output size a bit low- and the cutom size is a bit wack- had to use 4732 mb to get a full dvd (not that i recommend burning it that full) , so i think they're definition of an mb is 1,000,000 bytes

man why can they just stick to 4489 like the rest of the progs.

Quality wise- just did heartbreakers r1 ntsc- you can completely cut video streams which is good- (structure is ok too doesn't cause compliance erros with nero) transcoding is quick- (from the dvd-using anydvd) took about 24 minutes to encode.

While you can disable unwanted streams you can't individually control the compression of the remaining video streams- which is a bit of a bummer.

quality to me doesn't seem that great from a quick scan of a menus and a few scenes.

From this quick use, I'd do the unwanted stream removal in dvd stripper and stick to dvdvshrink

[Lazza]

quality to me doesn't seem that great from a quick scan of a menus and a few scenes.

From this quick use, I'd do the unwanted stream removal in dvd stripper and stick to dvdvshrinkSadly as I thought it would be. :(

Ah well, when DVD Shrink is as good as it is and free no worries really.

[How-Long]

How long will DVD Shrink gonna be free? Will the author of DVD Shrink turn out to be like VCDEasy after seeing so many people using it so they starting to pop up those Commercial version :( even though there are alternative to get this version easily but i still prefer it to be a freeware as always.

[celtic_druid]

DVDShrink has always refused donations so somehow I doubt he will start selling shrink. If you do want to spend some money though you could always just buy Nero recode.

[Jesterrace]

At this point I would either go with Shrink(if you want free and easy) or CCE(pay but outstanding quality and features).

[How-Long]

CCE is just way to expensive. A thousand Dollars for one single program and it's only the standard version. Get the pro and upgrade up to a nother $1,000!

[Jesterrace]

Yeah CCE is VERY spendy but I have sampled several of the $50 programs and the only advantage I can see in any of them is that they give you the option to keep the menus without having to keep still frames on the extras. Other than that IMHO DVD Shrink is the better program in every way. So I guess what I am trying to say is go free or go all out. ;)

[Tedman]

hey what is cce?

[nimbles]

Cinema Craft Encoder- from a company called custom technology- its an mpeg 2 encoder similar but superior to TMPGenc

[gratefulme]

How does it compare to Shrink?
I tend to use this more than shrink lately. I like the abilty to strip the extras, and keep the menus. Since the only thing I ever really watch from the extras are the deleated sceens, I tend to leave them and ditch the rest. I have done a quality check on DVD-rws to see if either one has better quailty, and I can't notice a difference on a movie with about 60% compression.