Any reason using IC 8?

[Espen]

Haven't heard much good about IC8 so far. Most complaining what I have seen. I use IC 7 for now. It always give me a result between 4.30-4.36 gb. But I'm concernd about the quality, does IC8 gives better quality than IC7? I'm pretty happy with the quality, but on big movies when you have to reduce main movie under 75% it's not that good....

[mrbass]

Originally posted by Espen
does IC8 gives better quality than IC7?
I don't believe Pinnacle made any core engine changes as far as the video quality is concerned. That's not to say they didn't add additional registry settings, etc. to try to achieve better file size predictabilty. They did introduce an optional faster mode which isn't great video quality. Let's see what update 1 has when it comes out.

[Richk50]

I use DVD2DVD on large movies. It's very easy to use and the results are far superior than any of the transcoders.

[Kedirekin]

Not to be disagreeable, but far superior is a matter of opinion. I find many of my DVDShrink transcodes comparable in quality to CCE encodes.

My take on this is everyone needs to form their own opinion.

[alibegoa]

Originally posted by Richk50
I use DVD2DVD on large movies. It's very easy to use and the results are far superior than any of the transcoders.

I tried DVD2One, shrink and IC and to put it simply IC is way the best. If you take Apocalypse now redux and LOTR I, IC gives you the best quality by huge margin

[spiderman2k1]

DO not get me wrong I love DVD shrink but IC8 is better take a very bad DVD that was encoded like Babylon 5 season 1. IC8 will win. Now if you use a good dvd that encoded DVDshrink will do a great good. Most DVD now are encoded very good.

[bobwillis]

Hi,

My tests have indicated that ICv7 quality is the same as ICv8 (IMHO). This is better quality than Shrink v3.0 b5 (again IMHO).
CCE provides significantly less macro blocking than IC.

Test Disc: Shackleton Region 2: 3hrs 46mins, main movie 7.7GB.

The main advantage with ICv8 over v7 is the fact that you can now remove the menu & extras reliably.

Main Gripes:
1. Indeterministic output size (registry mods essential). An oversize is still possible & will occur for the above disc unless the registry is modified. It appears to be identical to ICv7 in this respect.
2. Lack of a Video_TS folder.
3. Erasing a -RW takes half an hour (2 mins in Nero).
4. Instant drive doesn't work for me using Win XP + SP1.

Regards,
Bob

[alibegoa]

Originally posted by bobwillis
Hi,


3. Erasing a -RW takes half an hour (2 mins in Nero).

Bob

????

I use IC8 and Pioneer DVD-RW 1-2 speed.
Recording a new movie over an old one is completely finished within 30 minutes

[bobwillis]

Hi alibegoa,

That's interesting. It did the same under Win98se as well. I also use a pioneer drive (105) with datawrite 1x -RW. It takes half an hour to erase before burning, so I use Nero to erase first. I wonder if anyone else reports the same thing.

Thanks for the info.

Bob.

[Pasqui]

30mn is probably the time needed to do a full erase instead of a quick erase (approx. 2mn).

[bobwillis]

Hi Pasqui,

That makes sense. I've had a quick look in ICv8 options, and can't find anthing to force it into quick erase :(

Regards,
Bob