I asked DrinkLyeAndDie because he had already used nero to convert R2 to R1.I was not trying to offend anyone making them feel like they could not be smart enough to help me or anything like that.I sent him a private message but it must not have gotten to him.What I was looking for is if someone could give me a step by step walk throught on how to do this with nero,I do not use nero much except for nero recode for a few things.
It's really not that hard. Open
NeroVision and select
Make DVD then
DVD-Video and the next screen opens. At the bottom of the window you should see a rather large button that says
More click that and a toolbar pops up. Click on
Video Options and make sure that is set to
NTSC under the
General for the
Video Mode. Now you have a choice. You can set the process to either do
Fast Encoding (1-pass) or
High Quality (2-pass VBR) under the
DVD-Video tab and the
Encoding Method option. Fast encoding should be fine and believe me the 2-pass setting can take quite awhile. Unless this was something like an action movie I'd stick with 1-pass encoding. Then from the right side of the screen
Import Disc and select the DVD drive you have the DVD in. This can take a bit since it has to import and analyze. Select all the titles. If it's episodic I'll assume it groups them together as a title with 1 title per episode. I've never done this with an episodic disc. Now, click
Next when it's all imported. You'll end up on a screen to create a menu. Click on
More at the bottom of the window and the floating toolbar will pop up. You can pick where to start playback when you put in the DVD and what to do when a title ends: jump back to the menu, play the next title or loop the title. Personally, I'd go back to the menu in both settings. Then click
Next when your settings are done. You'll be on a preview screen which lets you preview your current setup. Use the image of the remote to experiment. If you wish to change something you can click
Back and make changes. Then click
Next to go forward in the process until you get to the preview screen. When you are happy with the output click
Next from the preview screen. Now you are on the
Burn Options screen. Make sure the
Video Mode says
NTSC and the
Aspect Ratio is
Automatic and Quality is
Automatic (fit to disc). On the fight side of the screen you'll see your burning parameters. Personally, I'd slect
Write to Hard Disc Folder. When you click that you'll have to select a folder to output the resulting files to. Do so. Now on the bottom left of the screen click on
Write and the process begins. Now walk away from your computer for awhile while it does its work. When it's done burn the output to a DVD like you normally would.
Yes, this is a very rough tutorial that is written from memory so I may have left a few things out. I realize the formatting sucks but I honestly don't have the time for images or to make it all pretty looking. In the end the process isn't that hard but it's just a pain in the butt and takes time for the conversion to take place.