Best and fastest software to use to copy DVD's?

[Reschke]

I am looking for a way to make good, FAST copies of several DVD's of my son's football game films for some family members. Help me out here guys I know some of you guys have/do some stuff like this but I need 6 copies each of the 8 games he played in last year FAST!!!

[Spikes]

I use Nero, but I have no clue how "fast" it is compared to others.

[Fulmar]

Are you converting the DVD to play in your normal old TV dvd player?  This takes time to convert the video for Menus etc.  Movies I've done take at least 45min to do for a single layer DVD.  DVDFlick is a free one to use.  There are better ones out there IIRC.  You'll also have to make sure that the DVD player you're playing it in can either DVD-R or DVD+R or both.  Some older DVD players can be picky on the DVD format.

If it's just a data file, you're just limited the speed of your discs and the speed of your burner.

[Reschke]

I have Nero on one computer and it works but it only has the option to make one copy at a time. I am looking for something that will let me setup the option to copy at least 6 disks with one read...I haven't found one yet that makes a decent copy that is close to the original.

[Reschke]

The DVD's are what we broke down last year from filming games and I need to make 6 copies of each game to give out. They will be played on whatever DVD player/drive that people have to use...whether it is a home or computer I don't know. I just don't want to spend 48 hours burning disks over the next 4 days.

[Fulmar]

I'm confused, the output DVD's aren't the same quality?  What is the source of these films? VHS? Another DVD? video file?

[Shuffler]

Digital is digital..... should be the same quality.

I use Pinnacle for making movies and reprints.

[ariansworld]

Get yourself a dvd cloner off of newegg.     Here is a link:   http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=528&name=Duplicators

[xbrit]

Find DVDClone from Slysoft, one run through and then just make copy after copy.

[Shuffler]

Find DVDClone from Slysoft, one run through and then just make copy after copy.

Most software will let you make multiple copies from one read.

[Skuzzy]

ImgBurn

[Westy]

I heartily second Imageburn.
It is by far the best and the price is right. Free!

DVD Decrypter is another that will do it too.  Not as super
user friendly as Imageburn is though.

[Reschke]

Thanks for the information and the source file in unavailable now after almost a year the original electronic copy was deleted to make space for other stuff. Anyway thanks for the information on Imageburn I will give it a shot.

In some instances the DVD's copied repeatedly by Nero and other "name brand" software packages like Roxio, etc... don't do an adequate job if you want to do a 1:1 copy. You end up missing stuff and not having a good copy...in essence you get a coaster sometimes just like you do if you are ripping movies, audio, etc...

I don't think I will be doing a duplicator since I am not making copies for video production and besides if I wanted to do that I would drop DVD burners in an ancient SuperMicro 750 Server Case with a cheap mobo and processor and go to town.

[Reschke]

Imageburn works like a champ for. I just burned 6 copies in just over 45 minutes of a nearly 2GB game film. So far I have not had any problems with those 6 copies that I tried either.

Thanks Skuzzy and Westy.

[Skuzzy]

You are welcome.

By the way, Roxio is the worst thing you can do to your computer.  They really do a nice job mangling up the resgistry.