When I'm compressing a movie down, is it generally better to use smooth or sharpen? Does it depend on the movie? I'm guessing that it's better to use sharpen if you plan to watch on a regular TV and smooth if you plan to watch on an HDTV/monitor? What do most people use?
I don't use either. To me both make movies hard to watch. I suggest you run the deep analysis but don't use the adaptive error compensation. But maybe I just had bad luck. Personally, if the compression setting (quality) is less than 80% I would not compress. I would use a program like DVDFabDecrypter and split to two disks. But I have seen a couple movies with half decent quality from from much lower compression settings. Good luck!
If you're the few that owned any 45" or higher (50 - 55) HDTV, then it's wise to use "Deep Analysis + AEC + Max Smoothness" especially if you value the quality of your backups. However, the choice is yours. Anything under 85% - 60% on DVD Shrink's quality (meaning there are 15% - 40% of compressions needed), I'll use "DA + AEC + Max Smooth". But afterall, I would rather use Nero Recode instead (from the same author who originally created DVD Shrink), it's much faster than DVD Shrink. Anything under 60% on DVD Shrink's quality (meaning there are 40% or more compressions needed), then I'll simply use DVD-RB Pro + CCE SP 2.70 to encode.
>>>> This CCE 2.70... that's quite expensive. is it worth $2000? Most frontends that use CCE use the $58 version. http://www.cinemacraft.com/eng/basic.html As was stated if you are into copying the whole disc (lots of compression) it's the way to go. For me as a 'movie only' type I've found Shrink's transcoder produces better (cleaner, sharper) results if only light compression, 90+%, is needed. This was not the case before the AEC tweaks were implemented.
Yeah if the film is worth it i'll use the compression as its usually the time spent compressing V the main movie As i had to back-up The Weatherman for someone recently as i found out it took over 5hrs! (its a good thing i dont do many back-ups) As with a prev. post i tried to backup just the 'main movie' but couldnt find a file size that big in Reauthor mode - Donno why! What was it like before the 'tweaks'
