If you choose to burn straight to disc, then under the "Destination" section, use the drop down menu to select your DVD writer drive and then insert your blank media. The advantage of burning to another DVD-Video folder is that you can test the DVD on your computer first, using PowerDVD or WinDVD (both supports loading DVDs from the hard-disk). You can burn the output straight to a blank disc, or you can create a disc image or another DVD-Video folder on your hard-drive. Press "OK" when you have finished your language selections to close the "Language Options" window. DTS and Dolby tracks), so you might only want to keep one of them (but be careful, some 2 channel tracks contain the audio commentary, so you might want to keep that). Sometimes a DVD might even have multiple audio tracks in the same language (eg. In the new window that opens, you can select which audio and subtitles tracks you want to keep (the "checked" ones), and which you want to remove (in the screenshot below, I've only kept the English audio and subtitles). To remove unwanted language tracks, click on the "Language Options" button. If you are using dual layer media, then there's not much point in removing the additional tracks. Certainly, if you are not using dual layer blanks, then you should try and only keep what you need to improve picture quality. Now sometimes a DVD might contain multiple language tracks, and you might not need to copy all of them. Keep an eye on the "Content Quality" and size bar status throughout to make sure you're not cramming too much onto the disc.Īfter you load in the source DVD-video folder, the "Source" section should now show a preview of the video (usually the menu). If "Content Quality" is "Excellent" or "Identical to Original", then the size bar will turn green. The size bar (orange in the first screenshot below, green in the second screenshot) shows how much space will be left on the output disc (the first screenshot below shows no space is left and that all 4428 MB on the disc will be occupied, the second screenshot shows a little bit of space left on the 8147 MB blank). The content quality could range from "Good" to "Excellent" or even "Identical to Original". But even a compressed disc will still look acceptable on all but the largest screens. To truly make a 1:1 copy, you will need to use dual-layer blanks. The more compression, the lower the quality. Since most DVDs are DVD-9 (usually around 8 GBs) and single layer blanks have just over 4 GBs, Video Copy & Convert will actually compress the original DVD to make it fit, which will affect picture quality. The "Content Quality" rating shows what the estimated finally quality will be like for the current copy. The options are single layer DVD+/- blanks, dual layer blanks or DVD-RAM. This option allows you to set what kind of media you are going to make the copy on. On the bottom of the main Video Copy & Convert screen, you should see a size bar and an option to select the media type. In Video Copy & Convert, click on the "DVD Video Copy" button at the top to get to the following screen. If you prefer to copy only selected parts of the disc, then skip to "Step 2b: Copying Parts of the Disc". Use this step if you wish to copy everything on a disc (with the option to remove some additional languages/subtitles). Using "Step 2b" has the added advantage of allowing to you add your own video files to the DVD. Decide what you need to do and choose to follow "Step 2a: Copying the Entire Disc" (copy everything, compress everything to fit) or "Step 2b: Copying Parts of the Disc" (copy only selected parts, compress these parts to fit if needed). Otherwise, you can also choose to remove content and then compress what is left (if needed), which will improve quality (for example, you can remove all the extras and only keep the main movie). Since most DVDs are DVD-9 (usually around 8 GBs) and single layer blanks have just over 4 GBs, Video Copy & Convert can compress the original DVD to make it fit, which will affect picture quality.
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