How exactly do you do this using clonedvd or is it done using a third party burner, I am playing with my copy of The Departed which is only 54% on single layer, so I have created a D/L file which is now 7.34gb using clonedvd (I don't have clonecd).
No. You don't want the DL ISO method if you are going to split. (CloneDVD, however,
will burn a Double Layer backup if this is what you prefer.)
Keep CloneDVD set on DVD5 to do a split backup.
Deselect the Titles (if any) that you do not want on your backup. Highlight the Title that is the main movie. Click on the "Scissors" icon. Use the slider bars to allow just enough chapters on Disk1 so that the quality bar is at 100%. Click "next".
In the right-hand pane, eliminate any foriegn languages that you do not want on the backup. There is another quality bar to check out on this audio selection page i.e. if your were not quite at 100% on page one, by eliminating foriegn language audio and subtitle tracks on page two, the quality bar may pop up to 100% now. Again, be sure to do this in the right hand pane and not in the left hand pane ... this will set your default audio/subtitle preferrences for all future backups. Click "next" again, choose the speed you want to burn your media at and click "Go". When Disk one is finished burning, go back and put the remaining chapters on Disk2 and then advance the same way and burn disk2.
Test and play with combining the number of chapters to include on each of the two disks, before you go to burning disk1. Experiment with keeping some titles on only one of the two disks, deselecting tracks etc ... in other words
practice juggling everything onto two disks and you will get the hang of it after a bit of trial and error. Be sure to keep "Preserve Menus" checked ... you need the menu structure for the correct default audio tracks to play on both split backup disks (i'm not gonna go into detail on that subject so I'm just suggesting it is a good idea to preserve menus)
Every movie is different so get to know how it all works. Encountering an original DVD that has "Angle" titles (several large size titles seem to be exactly the same as each other and they
all seem like they could be the main movie on the original) is the only real challenge you will encounter. Sometimes that kind of authoring is tough to figure out how to split, so post back when that day comes and we'll help on that.
Best regards,
Whisperer