How to use Nero Recodes `Copy DVD to Nero Digital' feature (Note: Nero Digital can convert a 4.2 gig DVD-Video movie down to an MP4 video file of 692MB in size!!) (Important Note: Nero Recode will only work with VOB, IFO, and BUP files that you will normally find located in a `Video_TS' folder contained on a DVD-Video DVD, or stored on your Hard Drive. Nero Recode will also not be able to read/obtain these files from a `Protected' DVD-Video DVD, such as you find when you purchase or rent a commercial DVD. Only unprotected DVD's can be accessed and used by Nero Recode directly. Programs such as `NeroVision Express 2' can create VOB, IFO, and BUP files in a folder called `Video_TS' on your Hard Drive or onto a DVDVideo DVD, from source files such as MPEG, AVI, WMV, ASF, MP4, DV, etc. You can then use these VOB, IFO, and BUP files with Nero Recode.) 1. To Launch Nero Recode: Click on Start->All Programs->Nero->Nero StartSmart 2. This will bring up the Nero StartSmart interface. Now select the icon located in the top-right of the window. (Note: You need a DVD Recorder connected to your system for the DVD icon to appear.) 3. The DVD Icon will drop down to show that you are now in DVD mode. Now put your mouse over the `Photo and Video' icon, and then select the option for `Recode DVDVideo'. 4. This will bring up the Nero Recode Program window. Now you can select the `Copy DVD to Nero Digital' option. (Note: As soon as you put your mouse over this option, you will see text appear in the bottom right of the window that will explain what you can do with this option.) 5. This brings you to the `My Nero Digital Disc' window. Select the `Import Titles' button. 6. This brings up the `Import Title' window. Now select the button. 7. Here you need to select a `Video_TS' folder contained on your Hard Drive, or select a `Video_TS' folder from a Non-Protected DVD-Video DVD. Once you have highlighted your selection, click on the `OK' button. 8. This will bring up the `Analyzing' window. This only comes up the first time a source is analyzed by Nero Recode. You can preview the source video while it's being analyzed to insure it's the video you wish to work with. And there is a graphical display window that will display the compression ratio on the source video selected. As well as a count down to the time remaining for the analyzing process. 9. This brings you back to the `Import Title' window. Select the Movie' and then click on the button. You can use the preview the selected movie title before adding it to the project. from the `Main buttons to 10. You will see that `Title 1' was added in the background. Repeat this step till you have all the movie titles you want written to DVD added. Then click on the button. 11. This brings you back to the `My Nero Digital Disc' window. Most movies will have without affecting the main movie. You can remove these by using the button. Click on this button now. Credits and other information at the beginning and end of the movie that you can remove 12. This brings up the `Set Start/End Frames' window. 13. You can use the drop down box next to `Chapter:' to select at what chapter point you wish the movie to begin at, or end at. You can also use the slide bar to manually select a location in the movie to begin and end at. Or you can use the and buttons to move frame by frame, or jump forward a number of frames at a time to select start and end points for the movie. This window will display the exact Start Frame and End Frame selected. As well as display the Total Duration in Frames, and Total size of Title you are editing. Click on the `OK' button when you are done making your changes. 14. This brings you back to the `My Nero Digital Disc' window. And now you can see from the automatically. slide bar graph that the quality has increased 15. At this point you can just click on `Next' and begin the burn. Or you can make some drop down box to choose between Dolby Digital 5.1 changes to the project. Select the surround sound channel, or 2 channel sound. Most will choose 5.1-ch option. Also you must select the language the audio will be in. In this case we only have English option. 16. Now you need to choose between `Stereo' and `5.1-channel surround'. We highly recommend the 5.1-channel surround sound option. And at this time we need to select drop down box to the type of media you are going to burn this project too. Use the select between CD [74 min] media; CD [80 min] media, or DVD-5 [4.7 GB] media. You can also use the Custom option to create your own media. Such as if you have 99 min media and a Recorder that supports writing to 99 min media. 17. If you chose `Custom', you would get the below `Custom Target Size' window to appear. Just enter the size of the media you have to work with, and then click `OK'. . 18. For this operation, we will select CD [80 min] media. Now you will notice that we have two buttons for settings, and settings. Nero Recode has preset profiles that control these settings automatically. To see the preset profile options, click on the window. button located in the bottom left of the 19. This expands the window so you can view and change some advanced settings. Currently we provide you with a default `Title import profile'. This controls what audio files and subtitles, etc are added to the project when you add a Title Movie. You can create your own profile. Simply click on the button. 20. This brings up the `Nero Recode Profile' window. To create your own Profile, click on the button. 21. This brings up the `New Profile' window. Enter a name for the profile you are about to create. Then click on `OK' when you are finished. 22. Under the `Video' tab, you can choose where and how to assign the best quality to Titles that are imported. And you can choose if you wish to keep the Menus from imported Titles. 23. Now click on the tab, and now you can select what audio languages to add or remove. Or select all audio tracks. And select audio compression such as MPEG-2, etc. 24. And last you can configure the `Subpicture' options, or commonly referred to as Title you are working with. If you click on the language subtitles. `Subtitles'. By default we select all tracks if the subtitle of your choice is not on the source button, you can add more 25. If you selected the button in the profiles window, it will bring up the `Select Tracks' window. Here you can select those languages you wish to add to your profile and have added if detected on the Title movie's you import into Nero Recode. Click `OK' once you have made your choices. 26. Once you are done creating your personal Profile, click on the apply your profile. button to 27. This will bring you back to the `My Nero Digital Disc' window. You will see your new profile show in the bottom left of the window. Now we need to select the `Nero Digital Profile'. Click on the drop down box icon in the bottom right of the window. 28. This will provide you a list of profiles for Video and Audio settings based on the platform you will be using the MP4 video on. For DVD Players or home use you should select `Home Theater' or `High Definition TV' profiles; for cell phones and pocket PC use you would select `Portable' or `Handheld' profiles; and for play back on your computer you would select `Maximum Definition' or `Home Theater' profiles. Based on the profile you select, the video and audio configurations will be changed automatically. 29. To see the changes you Nero Digital Profile makes, select either or buttons. 30. If you select the button, it will bring up the `Nero Digital Video Settings' window. Here you can see how it pre-configures the Deinterlace, Cropping, and Resize options for you. Continued: 31. If you selected the button, you can see how the Nero Digital Profile you selected pre-configures the Audio settings for you. Which you can modify if you prefer, though we recommend using the pre-configured settings for optimum performance and space usage. 32. Now that you have set your profiles, you have a few other options in this window. 33. There is also a `Preview' option in this window. You can use the buttons to begin playing the selected video or to stop playing the selected video. You can use the slide bar to movie to any location in the movie and then begin playing from there. Or you can use the button to expand the preview window for better viewing. (Note: Be sure to carefully click on the green arrow exactly or it will not expand the preview window properly.) 34. The below screenshot shows an example of the expanded preview window. As you can see, all other options are hidden while in this mode of viewing. Just click on the to return to a minimized preview mode. icon 35. Now select the option to choose which subtitles you wish to include or exclude from the project. In this case we only have an English and French subtitle to choose from, but in most cases you will have others such as Spanish, German, etc. (Note: If you set up your profiles properly, you will not need to make any changes here. Unless you really wished too.) 36. And now click on the tab to view details about your source video. This window will display information about Resolution; Compression used; Display; Frame Rate; Picture; and Average Bitrate. 37. Once you are satisfied with your changes. Click on the move onto the final process. button to