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Summary: The individuals who rate this poorly have no clue !!
Review: Instant Copy by Pinnacle Systems is by far one of the best dvd back-up pieces of software currently out on the market. everything the adds say about is abilities are true, and more so. With every upgrade being released this has been a major contender in its field. It does every thing it says it does! Of course you need a separate program to rip the protected files from the dvd to the hd (and its free). This process takes only 9 mins and once done you can manipulate the file structure easily with Instant Copy and make flawless copies. STOP bashing this program and learn what the process is all about before opening your mouth.
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Summary: Will NOT copy "copy protected" DVD videos
Review: It's true this software will copy dual layered DVD's on to a 4.7g DVD-+R/-+RW, but unfortunate it will NOT copy "copy protected" DVD videos. "Copy protected" DVD is nothing but a DVD with the "copyright" flag enable. 99.9% of the DVDs in your local blockbuster is "copyright" aka "copyprotected." Not that it's impossible to copy those "copy protected" DVD, but Pinnacle systems has such a reputation, they will definitely not break the rule and let you copy those DVDs on their software.
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Summary: The Best and the Easiest!
Review: There are a few other software products that you could use that try to do the same thing as InstantCopy, but none do it better or as easily: DVD95Copy: Still had a few bugs with the audio stream processing when I tried it, and it will not burn directly to discs. DVD2One: Does not currently do DVD9->DVD5 copies (although they are working on this for the next version) and does not burn to discs. DVDXCopy: Does not currently do DVD9->DVD5 copies, but will make an exact copy of your source DVD by spanning two discs (this requires you to swap discs during playback.) Cool features of InstantCopy: - Lets you keep all content and menus if you wish.
- Offers one-click automatic processing if you are a novice.
- Allows you to choose video tracks, subtitling tracks, and audio streams to include in the copy.
- Allows you to individually tweak the compression used on the various video tracks if you want to. (This is useful in boosting the quality of the main feature, while turning down, or eliminating the disc extras that you might be less interested in.)
- Burns directly to your media (DVDR or CDR).
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Summary: Not good for DVD copy
Review: There are lot of free programs that does 100% better than this.
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Summary: Best product of it's kind
Review: This is even better than DVDXCOPY since it allows you to "shrink" content on large DVDs, and does not contain the dreaded "nag" screen. I have had little luck going direct from reencoding ripped files to blank DVD without copy buffer errors, but complete luck going from reencoding to hard drive, then from hard drive to DVD.
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Summary: Big Waste Of Money!
Review: This is garbage. Don't buy this. It can't copy any DVD. Not even a DVD out of a cereal box. And try getting support for it, HA HA. GOOD LUCK. They give you a number, that takes you to another number, that takes you to another number that hangs up on you. buy "DVD X COPY"
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Summary: What a waste of money
Review: This program is not properly advertised. It WILL NOT make copies of your DVD Movies, since most movies are copy protected. In order to use this program, you must download a program to remove the copy protection, rip the dvd to your hard drive (you must have a ton of hard drive space to rip the entire disk to your hard drive. See vcdhelp.com for more info) and then copy from your hard drive to the dvd. There are free programs that do this same thing and are really no harder than using this program. It's a shame, because I have used many Pinnacle products, but this just doesn't deliver, since most commercial DVD's are copy protected.
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Summary: You must know how to use this program!!!
Review: This software is excellent. But first, you must use dvd decrypter (a free software) so you can copy your dvd to the hard drive first (even the copyrighted for backup purposes, remember that it's illegal to sell copies of copy right material). When using DVD Decrypter, choose to decrypt all files. Then use instant copy to burn the DVD, be sure to use the "customized resize" in the Copy Method of the DVD Menu, so you can take off the extra features (like subtitles, or second audio tracks...) to improve the video quality. You can actually copy all the DVD but because you're copying from a 9.4gb dvd to a 4.7gb, the image loses resolution (shrinkage process), so it's up to you, if you want all the extras or sacrifice them for a better picture. You can see the percentage of the imgae that will be kept! DVD X Copy splits the movie into 2 DVDs!
It has never crashed, and it takes like 40 minutes to burn a DVD!
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Summary: Not good enough
Review: This software is OK for backing up DVDs although it is slow, but if you want to convert DVD video to SVCD (maybe VCD too), most of the time the video and audio will be out of sync. This is painful especially considering it usually takes about 4 to 6 hours on a 1.8Ghz computer to get it converted and you finally find the output is useless. Another issue is, depends on whether you care or not, after dual-layer DVD video is compressed into one DVD, the closed caption (not the subtitle) is gone. Finally, the support is bad. It is very slow for the company to come out with a patch/fix, and the software is still pretty buggy now.
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Summary: Instant Copy is an Instant .....
Review: This software is unforgiving and full of bugs. I suspect the few who get it to work have a relationship with Pinnacle or other kind of plant. Get error messages copying non-protected sources to DVD and premature disk ejection for VCD. Don't waste your money. Support is non-existent and the manual and help are both of no help. Sounds good but don't bite. YOU WILL BE SORRY.
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