Elby releases CloneDVD 2 Sneak Preview as free download

February 20, 2004

Thanks to Thunderace1k and MTR,
we know that the CloneDVD 2 Sneak Preview
is finally up. The Sneak Preview is a 30 days beta/trial version and is not available for purchase. Elby doesn't claim it to be final or free of bugs.

CloneDVD 2 redefines the notion of picture quality. On the one hand the revamped transcoding technology delivers far better results, on the other hand the user has more control over the size of the video data. With the new version you can define the degree of data reduction through specific title and audio selection, chapter cutting and free adjustment of the target size. A second quality bar shows the influence of the language selection on the compression rate. You now have complete control over the actual quality of your movie copies.

During transcoding, picture snapshots show you which parts of the movie are transcoded at that instant, graphical bitrate and frame statistics inform you in realtime about the properties of the video input and output data.

Along with the new version of CloneDVD, we offer you our software Virtual CloneDrive: Image files created by CloneDVD can be "inserted" into Virtual CloneDrive and used as if they were normal DVDs.

What's new in CloneDVD 2:

Newly revamped transcoder

Quality Bar during the audio selection

Chapter trimming/Splitting

With Virtual CloneDrive

Target size freely adjustable (from 100 MB to 9999 MB)

Audio and Subtitle Settings are structured more clearly

Picture snapshots while transcoding and remuxing

Realtime bitrate and frame statistics while transcoding (Click on the sheep)

Logging window available

Layer Break Flag Removal possible

Animation during trancoding and writing replacable