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Splitting discs for later dual layer burns - Copy DVD Movie - Club CD Freaks

17. October 2004 @ 08:59
Yes. The Moderator is correct. I am splitting the movie onto two DVD’s with CloneDVD2. For example, “The Green Mile” is 3hrs. 9min’s long. The special features are approximately another 12mins. Compressing it to one DVD will result in a DVD with about 50% or less quality. But if you split it to two DVD’s, each DVD is 100% quality. I only do this with movies that I really like and are 3+ hours long. I have found that in most cases a movie compressed to 60% or less is perfectly fine when copied to one disc. A couple of other movies that would warrent this procedure are “Lawrence of Arabia” (3′47″ long) and “Ben Hur” (3′22″ long) + special features. Hope this clears things up.

I do deviate from Elby’s instructions on how to do this in one step. What I do is put the 1st. part of the movie and the Special Features on disc 1. Then on disc 2 I put the remainder on the movie. For disc 2 I uncheck “Preserve Menu’s” Elby’s instructions don’t say to do this for disc 2(Maybe it’s implied). This way disc two will start immediately when inserted. If you don’t uncheck “Preserve menus” you’ll have the menus on both disc’s. This is undesirable. Remember, you’ll have to have something like “AnyDVD” to copy a pressed DVD.

From Elby’s web site manual:

Splitting: If you want to copy the whole DVD or you want to copy a movie with extra length, it is advisable to split it over two DVD media. First of all you have to select â€œpreserve menusâ€ for keeping the overview. Via the â€œchapter cuttingâ€ function you can split the main movie in two parts while selecting for example the chapters 1-9 for the first DVD media. Select now further titles like â€œSpecial Featuresâ€ and start the copying process for the first DVD media. When the copying process has finished, please click on the â€œBackâ€ button until you reach the window with the title selection. Click with the right mouse button into the title selection dialogue: You can invert your selection for the first DVD media, like in this example, it means that the chapters 10-16 of the main movie and the rest of the titles will be automatically selected. Don’t forget to uncheck “Preserve menus”

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Frankwm
Junior Member
23. October 2004 @ 12:47
… if you carefully read kyrainman’s post with the instructions from Elby’s website manual, you only uncheck “Preserve Menus” on burning the 2nd disk when splitting to 2 disks. You retain the “Preserve Menus” when burning your 1st of 2 disks. This was informative to me, since I was unaware of this.