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High Quality DVD-9 Backups With DVD Rebuilder & CCE Basic |
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Before the advent DVD Rebuilder and CCE Basic, there have been fundamentally two alternatives available for backing up a whole DVD –9 to a DVD-/+R. Perhaps with a complicated learning curve and probably costing you thousands of dollars, you could either make use of a laundry list of programs, or you could draw on a cheap and quick 1 Click program yet depriving you of the matching quality as more sophisticated methods offer. But with DVD Rebuilder and CCE Basic, you can actually get the quality that competes against complicated and costly processes while preserving the ease of a 1 Click software.
DVD Rebuilder permits you to re-encode videos using Cinema Craft Encoder, a superior MPEG-2 encoder in the market today. Some may assume using CCE is better. However, it is actually satisfactory except for two things. Foremost, it is expensive. CCE SP program costs about $2000, and considering the number of DVDs you could exchange for that amount, purchasing it does not make much sense. Actually, there is a different version of CCE that most of you area not aware of. Approximate cost would be less than $100 as of this writing. However lacking all the advanced feature of CCE SP, the cheaper version uses the same encoding engine. The second difficulty for a CCE starter is complexity. You may have looked at all the options in your downloaded trial version and realized that there was too much to understand. This is where DVD Rebuilder comes in. Install CCE and Rebuilder will do everything from there on.
REMINDERS
Although excellent in most cases, DVD Rebuilder has still quite a number of bugs and a couple of discs that it cannot backup just yet. It is still a beta software. It cannot support multiple angles. Meaning, if you have a DVD with various versions of the same movie that have the same feature ratio but the scenes are different, Rebuilder might not be able to back it up yet. A number of advanced options in the program have not been added yet. Nonetheless, none of these should hinder you from backing up most DVDs. Note that Rebuilder is a beta software and a donation-ware, thus no guarantees.
Installing DVD Rebuilder
Dvd Rebuilder does not have an installer. Whenever you want to run the program, unzip the files to their own folder. Then extract Mpeg2Dec3dg.dll into the same folder as the DVD Rebuilder files. CCE Basic and AviSynth are all self-explanatory installers. Every now and then check for DVD Rebuilder updates.
Configuration
Run Rebuilder.exe and choose the Mode menu. Make sure that there are check marks next to CCE Mode, Verbose Status Window, and Dynamically Assign Cell Bitrates. Select Check One Click Mode. If you don’t want DVD Rebuilder to notify you before it deletes your directory, mark Suppress Warning Prompts option. However you need not to repeat it once Rebuilder is installed except when you want to modify the settings or use some features. In cases when you get updated versions, keep the Rebuilder.ini.file from the old version to save the settings. Or, just copy the INI file into the same directory as the new DVD Rebuilder.
Under Options the click AVS Options. Note that AudioDub (BlankClip()) is unchecked while ConvertToYUY() is marked. Then under AVS Options, go to Advanced and make sure MPEG2Source (“source”,idct=7) is selected. This should quicken AviSynth’s frameserving and cause in quicker encodes from CCE. Check again under Options menu and CCE Options if Basic (2.67) is checked.
Under Options menu, select Setup at the lower part of the window. A popup window will appear where you can configure the flows of the programs Rebuilder will be using. To browse the folder where you installed CCE, tick the button to the right side of Path to CCE Basic. Select cct.exe and click the Open button once you have accessed the correct folder. The default folder is C:\Program Files\Custom Technology\Cinema Craft Encoder Basic. You can see at the left side of the button the path you have just selected.
To the right of Path to MPEG2DEC3DG, click the button you have there and explore to the DVD Rebuilder folder. Choose MPEG2DEC3dg.dll and click the Open button. Mark the box next to Add to AVS file. Lastly, there are two lists in the right side of the window - Audio To Remove and Subpictures To Remove. Languages checked here will automatically be deleted when Rebuilder makes your backup. The Audio list is for audio streams and the Subpicture list is for subtitles. Select to delete or save any audio streams on a disc by disc basis as well, but subpicture selections are solely accessible in the Setup window. Click the Check All button to keep only a single language and then scroll to the language you want to keep and uncheck it. If you're configuring this for all discs, click the Save button. Do this individually for audio and subpictures, or else the configuration will barely be appropriate to your present project.
Rip the DVD then run Rebuilder.exe. and click folder button. Explore the DVD ripped directory and click the button OK. You will have a list of Audio Streams and Video Titlesets. Unmark Audiostreams you prefer not to keep. Unmarking the one at the top of the list means you will have to edit some IFO later. New default audio streams are not mapped. However if you are in doubt of what you are doing, we suggest you keep it. Click the middle folder icon and to set the working directory, repeat the process. The same directory will be used by Rebuilder for authoring and encoding, thus select a folder with 9GB or more free space.
Almost geared to begin backing up, DVD Rebuilder can work in either 1 Click or 3 Click mode. 1 Click mode allows you to leave your computer and return in a few hours to a finished DVD. Make sure that One Click mode is checked. All you need to is choose your Location and Destination directories, select or deselect audio streams, tick the Transcode button, and go watch a movie. Your movie will be geared up, one DVD Rebuilder is done. You will have VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS in the same folder as the D2VAVS, all set to burn to DVD.
CCE TRIAL
It is wise to test CCE first before purchasing it since it is a commercial software. The trial version of the CCE Basic is restricted to encoding three minutes of video per input file. Using the trial would actually get more than three minutes of the video since the video is split into smaller pieces established on the original DVD configuration. However it is uncertain that you will get sufficient video to precisely judge the quality. The trial version of the CCE Basic probably won’t help much.
If you choose to continue, you must have EclCCE, a third party software so the trial software can read the ECL (CCE configurations) files created by DVD Rebuilder.
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