Transcoding & Writing

On the left hand side you can either see snapshots of the movie during the transcoding process, a final summary of all the selected and tailored settings, .or log window which shows the processing tasks. Various animations provide a backdrop during the process!

The following panels are available:

• Snapshot window: Picture Snapshots show which parts of the movie are transcoded at the moment. You can change the update frequency as you like to. The higher the update frequency the slower the transcoding process!
• Summary: Here you can see all parts of your personal selection
• Log window: Here you can see the processes which CloneDVD does at the moment
  
• You can open the following context menu with a right click into the log window:
  
  • Clear: Here you can delete the content of the Log window
  • Save: Saves technical details about the copying process at the last selected directory
  • Save as: Here you can save technical details about the copying process on the hard disk
  • Debugging information: Shows technical details about debugging
  • What's this?: Opens the context help

On the right hand side you can watch the progress of the transcoding and imaging or writing procedure. Meanwhile you can toggle between the animation and graphically presented bit-rate statistics. Click once on the animation to reach the video bit-rate statistics and to find out more about the frame statistics, click once on the video bit-rate statistics.

• Animations: If you do not like the sheep animation you can load your own animations. Simply put your animation into the following directory: C:\Program Files\Elaborate Bytes\CloneDVD2\. Animation
  • format: .gif or .png format; 336 x 135 pixels
    With a right click on the animation you can open the following context menu:
    
  • Animation enabled: Here you can activate and deactivate the animation
    
  • Select processing animation: Here you can select the wanted animation during processing
    
  • Select writing animation: Here you can select the chosen animation during the writing process
    
  • Reset animations: Click here to load the original animation
    
  • What's this?: Opens the context help
    
• Video bit-rate and frame statistics: Graphically presented bit-rate and frame statistics inform you in realtime about the properties of the video input and output data. The area of the video bit-rate statistics goes from 0-10 MBts, the lines of the frames statistics show the sizes: The area goes from 0 KB to 150 KB