I’m a fairly new to DVD writing, but I’ve been religiously trying out all of the backup software but nothing beats CloneDVD2. The program beats every other one handsdown when it comes to transcoding. I mean, using CloneDVD and AnyDVD I can backup a disk from the start of transcoding to the finished backup in about 20 minutes! This is with a Nu Tech DDW-163 burning at 12x on Ridata 8x disks with a Pentium 2.4c and 513 megs of RAM and about 70-80% on the compression meter.
I’ve been reading about people using encoders like CCE and transcoders like DVDCopy (apparenty the best transcoder). BUT they take forever, for negligible improvements in results! Check the nice review at DVD.box.sk. They couldn’t see differences unless they magnified the stuff at 300% in most cases (and those diffs were small). I’m not a videophile and my TV is not exceptionally large so I can’t see ANY difference. Does this debate only exist for those rich videophiles who sit six inches in from of their 54 inch LCD screens.
Also, I’ve seen some people using up to 5 different pieces of software to do the same thing you can do with Clone in 2 minutes. Why are some people making it so difficult? Should I be spending hours studying different proggies and working through a million steps? I feel guilty…
Am I blind for not seeing a difference in 20 minute backup with CloneDVD2 opposed to a dramatically longer trans/encode with other software. And isn’t that way too fast to make a backup? I must be screwing up somewhere…