Options
The first options are to set the source, destination and the working folder, but there are more choices.
Some other options are audio language, switching between Dolby or DTS, turning the subtitles on or off, allowing the movie only menus and switching between dual or single layer DVDs.
These options are fairly obvious; I did notice that the program selects the audio language that comes closest to your regional settings.
That leaves the presets, which are very important with copying DVDs.
It determines the size, quality and subsequently the speed of the copy.
Movie only mode is the default preset, simply because it yields the best quality for the movie.
Some times however you do not want that options and some people just want to have a copy as close to the original as possible.
Here is where the other presets come in, they are trade offs in quality and room on the DVD.
Each option you select to include or exclude, weighs on the scales of quality.
These are the presets listed in the very helpful help file and I couldn't have explained it any better myself.
- Movie Only: This preset will copy the widescreen (if available) movie and remove the extras. Menus will also be removed unless the "Movie Only Menus" is enabled (not recommended). It will copy the audio languages corresponding to the "Preferred Audio Languages" and will remove any redundant audio tracks (ex. DTS and AC3 in the same language). This is the default preset and is recommended for the best video quality.
- Movie & Extras: This preset will copy the widescreen (if available) movie, extras and menus. It will remove redundant audio and redundant aspect ratios (ex. widescreen and fullscreen).
- Episode DVD: Select this option if you are copying an "Episode" DVD. An episode DVD usually contains several episodes of a television series. Selecting the "Episode DVD" option will ensure that all the episodes are copied. Mistakenly using the "Movie Only" preset on an Episode DVD could result in only one episode being copied. The program will attempt to recognize Episode DVDs when they are scanned, but this detection process is not perfect and is only there to help remind you if you forget.
- Full Disc: This option will copy everything in the VIDEO_TS folder (ie. no data files) from the original DVD and attempt to compress the video sufficiently to make the copy fit on a 4.7 GB disc. Consider the fact that an original DVD can be as large as 8.5 GB and you'll see that this may require considerable video compression (audio data is always copied without compression). All audio, video and subtitles will be copied, including extras, menus and redundant audios and aspect ratios. We highly recommend that you do not use this option because it could result in poor quality video on DVDs which contain a large amount of video and audio information.
- Exact Copy: Use this option to make an exact duplicate of the original DVD (ie. no compression). Unless your original DVD is less than 4.7 GB (rarely), you must use Dual Layer media (select the "Dual Layer Media" option) when this option is enabled.
- Custom: Use this option to manually select Titlesets, Menus, audio, video and subtitles. Note: If you change any of the items selected by a Copy Preset, the "Custom" will automatically be enabled.
With all these presets you are still allowed to add or remove chapters, menus etc.
The preset will then change to a custom preset, still retaining your previous choices in addition to the custom choice you just made.
If you right click anywhere in the program, additional settings will show up.
These have more to do with the writing options you have when writing to media.
Most of these options are self explanatory, as you can see below.
Some useful options are prompting for another copy, setting the writing speed or turning on or off the option to eject the disc after a burn.
With these options you can also toggle the log window on or off.
One option I didn't see was if you could turn off the computer after copying, this might be useful in some cases.
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