Agreed!So why do people make such a big deal about it?
Let me clarify: A CloneDVD2 layer break works just fine in your player as long as your player is made to play DL backup media and as long as you used Verbatim +R DL media burned at a resonable speed and booktyped to DVD-ROM upon finalization. Earlier versions of CloneDVD may or may not have had some problems with layer transition but that was long ago "fixed" and I suspect poor DL media quality was the real problem even back then. So if some of your older CloneDVD DL backups have issues, that may be the reason.Just wondering...does it really matter that the original layer break is not used? Will this cause problems during playback?
CloneDVD places it's "automatically-chosen" layer break at the end of the chapter closest to the original layer break for a reason ... it is a transcoder by design. But, depending on the particular scene in the particular movie where that chapter change takes place, you may or may not like the automatically chosen spot in the movie as well as you like the spot that was chosen by the DVD authoring company. Or maybe even chosen by the director himself, if he keeps tight eye on the digital transfer of his movie ... I hear Ridley Scott is like this.
In other words, all DVD players must go through a short "pause" to transition to layer2 during movie playback. When a DVD authoring company places a layer transition break, it usually chooses a point in the movie where there is a dark scene, or a fade-out, or a switch to a new scene. So you could watch the movie and never notice your DVD player pausing for the layer transition. When your DVD player pauses for the the CloneDVD "placed" layer break, it may or may not be in as aesthetically a pleasing a spot as the place that the DVD authoring company chose to place the layer break. The "chapter end/begin new chapter" point that CloneDVD chooses to place the break may be between two action scenes (or even in the middle of a single action scene) that the director intended to be fluid but your player "layer-pauses" for the transition in a noticeable way thereby affecting the "flow" of the movie. Then again, the chapter end/begin new chapter may be two different scenes (as most often happens) and you will hardly notice the layer transition player-pause. So, for all practical purposes, it boils down to "how picky are you(?)". For most movies and most people, the CloneDVD layer break point is not an issue. And the break works fine as long as one uses (I second Webslingers' advice) quality Verbatim +R DL media for your backups.
To further define the differences between the two programs:
CloneDVD2 is a transcoder. It's purpose is the allow you to remove elements that you do not want on your backup (such as ads, previews, audio and subtitle tracks etc).
> One chooses DVD5 mode to rip, compress and burn the remaining elements to a single layer backup media. Or to split remaining elements onto two single layer backup medias thereby avoiding loss of quality due to compression.
> One chooses DL mode to rip and burn the remaining elements to double layer media without compression. As a transcoder, by both definition and design, CloneDVD has to change the original layer break because it is not a "duplicator" of the original DVD it is (again) a transcoder of the original DVD.
CloneCD simply copies everything off layer1 and layer2 of the original and places them on the DL backup media's layer1 & layer2 in exactly the same way, including the original layer break. I.E. it's purpose is to NOT transcode. It produces a 1:1 backup and you are not given the ability to choose to remove any unwanted elements ... only duplicate.
So there is nothing "wrong" or "better" about the way either program works. CloneDVD and CloneCD are intended to complete the task of backing up movies offering a choice of two different methods: Transcode or Duplicate. So whadayawannado(?) ... you choose.
Me(?), I'm like Webslinger, if I'm backing-up a DL original to DL media why bother removing anything(?): I just use CloneCD ... it's a no brainer! If I don't like the movie enough to justify the use of more expensive Verbatim DL media, then I'll use CloneDVD to split the movie over two SL disks. In either case I usally keep all elements of the original including menus. And I never compress. But that's just whadIwannado!
Issue cleared up now?
Best regards,
Whisperer
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