CloneDVD Introduction

What is CloneDVD?

  • CloneDVD is a useful software helping you make a backup copy of a DVD Movie that you own. You can not only copy your DVD collection to blank DVD discs, but also copy DVDs to hard disk folders. You can also output ISO image files of your DVDs.
    CloneDVD is very flexible, for both the source and the target of copy can be one of the DVD drive, hard disk folder or ISO image file. CloneDVD will copy DVD movies between any two of them.

 

What are the major features of CloneDVD?

  • Copy all DVD-VIDEO discs including DVD-5 and DVD-9 disc.
  • Split DVD-9 discs to two DVD-5 discs automatically.
  • Region-free, Remove RPC/RCE/CSS region protection automatically during copying.
  • Copy all special features, menus, subtitles, audios, nothing to lose
  • Copy main movie only (omit special features) to fit on one blank DVD disc.
  • Very flexible, the following copy modes are supported:
    a) Copy DVD disc and burn to recordable DVD disc directly.
    b) Copy DVD disc to Hard disk folder.
    c) Copy DVD disc to an ISO image file.
    d) Copy DVD movie from hard disk folder and burn to blank DVD discs.
    e) Copy DVD movie from one hard disk folder to another disk folder. (Useful to split DVD-9 movies on your hard disk into 2 blank DVD-5 movies to burn to blank discs.)
    f) Copy DVD movie from hard disk folder to make ISO image file.
    g) Burn ISO image file of the disc to a blank DVD disc.
  • And move…

     

    How does CloneDVD copy DVD-5 and DVD-9 discs?

  • As you know, most of DVD movies on the market are either DVD-5(single-layered) or DVD-9 (dual-layered) format. The DVD-5 DVD discs have the capability of 4.7G bytes and the DVD-9 DVDs have the capability of 9.4G bytes.
    In the other hand, the consumer-ready recordable discs (DVD R/W) are usually DVD-5 with capability of only 4.7G bytes.
    As a result, to copy a DVD-5 DVD movie we need only one recordable DVD disc because they have the same capability, to copy a DVD-9 DVD we might need 2 DVD R(W) discs. Although some DVD-9 discs may fit on one DVD R(W) disk, many will not. Some DVD-9 movies may also fit on one DVD R(W) if special features are omitted.
    When a DVD requires 2 disks, it must be split at a specific border between two chapters in the movie (Note that a chapter is not divisible). For example, if your DVD movie has 25 chapters, depending on the structure of the DVD and the size of the movie, CloneDVD might split the movie at chapter 14: #1 disc holds chapter 1 to 14, and #2 disc holds chapter 15 to 25.