How to use Nero Recodes `Copy Entire DVD to DVD' feature (Also known as DVD9 to DVD5) (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 Entire DVD to DVD' 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 DVD Backup' window. Select the `Import DVD' button. 6. This brings up the `Browse for Folder' window. 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. Example of Video_TS folder on Hard Drive: Example of Video_TS folder on DVD-Video DVD: 7. As soon as you click `OK', Nero Recode will begin to analyze the contents of the Video_TS folder. By Default the `Enable video preview' window is enabling to allow you to view the contents being analyzed and added to the project. It has a graphical display window that displays the current compression ration on the source video selected. As well as count down to time remaining for the analyzing process for the selected material. (Note: For the example in this How to Guide, we used NeroVision Express 2 to combine various `Trailers' of downloadable movies and created a Video_TS folder stored on the Hard Drive. All sources are Non-Protected content, and are not used for re-distribution.) 8. When the Analyzing process is complete, you will return to the `My DVD Backup' window. When you import a non copy protected Video_TS folder, Nero Recode scans the contents and presents the results in 3 categories: Menus; Main Movie, and Extras or Unreferenced Material. To make the application beginner friendly, Nero Recode pre-selects audio and subtitle tracks based on a default profile provided by Nero Recode. This is just a proposal, and you can modify this to meet your needs and free up space on the DVD to allow for better quality video to be created or written to the DVD-Video you are about to create. 9. At this point you can just click on `Next' and begin the burn. Or you can make some tab, you can deselect or select your changes to the project first. Under the choice of Dolby Digital 2-channel or 5.1 channel audio. If the movie contains more than one language in audio, such as German/English/Spanish, etc. You can select those languages you want or do not want the audio for. You will see the `Total size' change as you select or unselect an option. 10. 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.) 11. 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 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. Now on most movies, you get a number of bonus features or Extras that do not pertain to the main movie. You can not simply delete these items, as they will interrupt the flow of the movie and prevent the DVD from being playable on a DVD Player. So Nero Recode allows you to disable all or just a few of these extra items. You can select the Extras folder and then click on the button. Or you can select individual `Titles' listed under the Extras folder and then click the disable button. 15. This will bring up the `Disable Item' window. Here you can choose to replace the selected item(s) with one of the following options: a) Slide Show ­ This will replace the video with frame samples from the original video, taken at intervals of 0.5 seconds. b) Customer Picture ­ This will replace the video with a customer picture provided by Nero Recode by default. Or you can select your own JPEG, TIFF, BMP, etc. picture to replace it with. c) Custom Color ­ This will replace the video with a custom color that you can select from a palette provided by Nero Recode. Just make your selection and then click on the `OK' button. 16. Upon returning to the `My DVD Backup' window, you will see Extras disabled. 17. Now that you have freed up more room to increase the quality of the video, you can use the slide bar to increase the quality of the Menus. Or increase enabled, the quality of the Main Movie. As long as you have the option for you will see that the slide bars for the video quality adjust themselves to keep within the 4.7GB capacity of the DVD media you will be writing too. 18. Here you can see how adjusting the quality for the `Menus' causes the quality setting for the `Main Movie' to drop. 19. Now the last option you have is to add DVD Data Files. Click on the in the top left of the window, shown with a red box around it below. icon 20. This brings up a window to allow you to add data files from your Hard Drive or other sources. Click on the button. 21. This brings up the `Select Files and Folders' window. Select your files and/or folders and then click the `Add' button. Once you're done adding your data, select the `Close' button. 22. This brings you back to the `DVD Data Files' window. Now you can either click on icon, or you can just click `Next' to set up the burn process. In this example we will be clicking on `Next. 23. This brings us to the `Burn Settings' window. Select the icon to see a list of `Destination devices' to choose from. You can write the video to your Hard Drive where it will store it in a Video_TS folder; You can select the `Image Recorder' to create and ISO or NRG image file which you can burn to DVD at a later date; or you can select a DVD recorder that you have connected to your system. We will select a DVD Recorder. 24. Now click on the button to select a Temp directory to store the encoded files that Nero Recode must create. 25. This brings up the `Browse For Folder' window. You can select an existing folder to use as a temp directory, or create a new folder using the button to create a new folder to use as a temp directory. Click on `OK' when you have finished. ( Note: After the burn is completed, the encoded files will automatically be deleted from the temp directory.) 26. Now you can select the write speed and click on the burning to DVD. icon to begin 27. Or, if you are short on Hard Drive Space, you can enable the option for , and instead of using a temp directory to save the encoded files too before burning, it will burn to disc while recoding without creating the DVD structure on the Hard Drive first. 28. The Burn process begins. You will see faster than real-time encoding going on in the bottom left window. Or you can click on the icon to enlarge the preview window. 29. And this is the expanded preview window. You can watch the movie as its being recoded, and burned to DVD. 30. Once the recording has completed, click on `Next'. 31. And this brings you to the Final window. Now you can choose to `Burn the Same Project Again'. If you choose this option, you will not need to recode the video, as it will stay in the temp directory until you click Exit or `New Project'. You can also select the `New project' option to select a new operation. Or you can create a Label for the DVD you just created using our Nero Cover Designer. (Note: If you used the `Direct Burn' option, it will need to recode the video as it was not saved to the Hard Disk to begin with.)