There are many reasons to make a backup copy of DVDs one has purchased, keep reading to learn how to backup DVD movie to DVD for free.
Step 1, Download DVD Shrink
You can download DVD Shrink from: http://www.DVDshrink.org/
Note: DVD Brink is only for PC users.
Step 2, Run DVD Shrink and insert your DVD movie into the DVD drive
The first thing you will need to do is open the disc. Click on "Open Disk" at the top-left of the program window. A small window will pop up. There is a drop down menu - select the drive and disk that you are going to backup. Then click OK. When you click OK, the DVD will be "analyzed"–this process will last for 1-3 minutes, then DVD Shrink will "suggest" a level of compression.
If you receive an error while trying to rip the DVD, you will need to use another program such as AVS DVD Copy to copy the DVD files off of the disc on to your hard drive. You need to minus the copy protections first.
Step 3 , Adjust compression for individual Titles (optional)
DVD Shrink will automatically select the highest possible quality settings that will fit on your disc. You could accept the settings that DVD Shrink chooses. You can also increase the quality of the main movie file by reducing or eliminating other video and audio files on the DVD.
Many modern DVDs will contain bonus footage, trailers, multiple surround sound modes, and other settings that one can reduce or eliminate to improve the quality of the main movie feature.
The main movie quality setting is reported to the left of a slider bar in the top right of the screen. In the screenshot below we see that the default setting requires that the main movie be compressed to 48.2% of its original level to fit on the disc. You can increase this percentage to improve the final quality of the backed-up DVD. But the output file will be larger.
The way in which one goes about improving the quality of the main movie will be different depending on your specific needs. For example, when "Dolby Digital" and "DTS" 5.1 audio tracks are available, you can remove "DTS" (to save hundreds of megabytes), you can also choose to preserve "DTS" and reduce or eliminate other items from the DVD.
Step 4, Burn the re-encoded files to disc
Click "Backup DVD" and Now select the folder where your temporary files will be saved. DVD Shrink needs to save a bunch of files on your computer (that actually compose your movie) so that it can burn that movie back onto another DVD. This is why you had to clear 5 gigs of space on your hard drive. Once the DVD backup has been burned, you can go ahead and delete these temporary files (the program does not do this itself).
You may as well select "Region Free" (default) under the DVD Region tab
on the Burn Settings tab make sure "Maximum" burn speed is selected in the drop-down menu
Once you have the settings the way you like them, begin the burn process. You'll see the "Encoding" happening first. Once the files have been copied to your hard drive, your original DVD movie will eject from your computer.
You will also have a pop up asking you to put a blank DVD into the DVD burning drive of your computer that you previously selected.
Exchange the original DVD movie for a blank, burnable DVD. Push the blank DVD into the drive. DVD Shrink will begin burning the new DVD automatically in a few seconds.
Now you will get a pop up that shows the progress while the program burns your new DVD movie. Once the new DVD has been burned, you will get a window that tells you that it's done. Click OK, close the program, and take your new DVD movie backup.
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