Select Title

Choose the drive where the original DVD is inserted. The data files of the original DVD will be loaded.

NOTE: You will see an error message if your DVD is CSS-encoded and CloneDVD cannot load your DVD, (please refer to the information under What you should know).

On the right hand side you wil see the title selection and on the left hand side either the movie preview (which is started by default) or an overview about the Audio and Subtitle Settings that are possible for the selected title.

The titles are preselected according to the chosen category:

• For Copy DVD Titles, only the main movie, without menus, is preselected
• For Clone DVD, all titles and menus are preselected

In any situation, you can change the title selection according to your personal preferences. The backup categories only describe a preselection of options, to make the program easier to use.

You can make the following selections:

• Title selection: Here you will find a list of all available titles from the original DVD. For each title, you will see the playback time, chapter count and original audio settings (audio tracks and subtitles). You can select one or more titles. Mark the checkbox corresponding to the title/s that you want to backup and the selected titles will be highlighted accordingly
  With a click with the right mouse bottom in the title selection you open the following context menu:
  
  • Select all: This function selects all of the titles
    
  • Invert all: This function inverts your title selection
    
  • Invert for split: This function is only activated if you keep the menu. With this option you can invert your chapter and title selection. This is very important if you like to split one DVD over two DVD media!
    
  • Information: Opens the context help
• Sorting order: By default, the titles are ordered by playback time. You can change the sorting criteria to title number or chapter count. Simply click on the corresponding column description
  
• Chapter cutting: You have the possibility to cut off unwanted chapters or to split one movie in two parts. Click on the scissors to open the control element for cutting off unwanted chapters. Another bar appears below the play bar. The small points symbolize the chapters, the space shows the approximate length of each chapter. You can move the blue triangles to cut off unwanted chapters. Either you click on the orange bar to move the blue triangles step by step or you directly drag it to the chapter where you like to have it. The Play Slider above automatically moves to the position of the triangles so that you can watch the first movie scenes from each chapter. The green writing in the preview window shows you the chosen chapter and its play time. On the right hand side, in the title selection, you can see the chapter selection with each title
  
• Splitting: If you want to copy the whole DVD or you want to copy a movie with extra length, it is advisable to split it over two DVD media. First of all you have to select preserve menus for keeping the overview. Via the chapter cutting function you can split the main movie in two parts while selecting for example the chapters 1-9 for the first DVD media. Select now further titles like Special Features and start the copying process for the first DVD media. When the copying process has finished, please click on the Back button until you reach the window with the title selection. Please click with the right mouse button into the title selection dialogue: You can invert your selection for the first DVD media, like in this example, it means that the chapters 10-16 of the main movie and the rest of the titles will be automatically selected
  
  • HINT: If you want to split a multi-angle movie, please cut off the same chapters for each camera angle. You can easily recognize titles with different camera angles, as they all have the same playing time!
• Movie preview: You can start the movie preview by first clicking on a title and then clicking on the Play-button (green triangle) right below the preview panel. You can change the playback speed (1x-8x) by using the right mouse button inside the preview panel. The movie preview allows you to easily identify each title required for backup
  • You can change the playback speed (1x-8x) by using the right mouse button inside the preview panel. Besides, you can increase the size of the panel by selecting the menu item Best fit. With What's this you open the context help
• Menu: You can copy the original DVD menu by selecting the Preserve menus checkbox in the upper right-hand corner of the window.
  • NOTE: If you want to split the original DVD you have to preserve the menu (please see Splitting)
• FirstPlay: If you don't want to copy the DVD menu, but decide to select more than one title, you must specify which title should be played on insertion of the DVD (FirstPlay). To select the FirstPlay title, all you need to do is click just to the left of the title's displayed Play time for the preferred title - a small green triangular arrow will indicate the FirstPlay title. By default, the title with the longest playtime (which is usually the main movie) is preselected
• Quality bar: This quality bar gives you an idea of how much the compression (see help manual Before you begin) of the data affects the movie quality. The more titles you choose to include, the more the movie quality will decrease. You should avoid the red area!
• Target Size: Here you can adjust the target size yourself. You can choose between a DVD-5 or Custom settings (100 MB to 9999 MB). The quality bar aside shows you the corresponding compression depending on the title selection as well as the target size and thus the quality of the movie copy. Trough the quality bar you have the direct correlation between title selection, target size and quality. In the next window you’ll find a second quality bar which is more exact and includes the audio and subtitle selection

Now click Next.