Goldfinger Rip your Blu-ray to a folder on your hard drive

Goldfinger

Rip your Blu-ray to a folder on your hard drive. Start up BD Rebuilder and you should see a main window like the one below. Using the Browse buttons, select your source directory. I m using my Dark Knight Blu-ray in this example. Also, while your at it, select your Working directory. This is where your temporary files will be stored during the conversion process. Now, since I want to backup my entire Blu-ray menus, extras, etc, I want to check to make sure that I am in the correct backup mode by going to Mode Full Backup. There is one thing to remember here. A full backup means that you are backing up everything, so you have less space for your main movie, which means a reduced quality overall when you compress everything down. The alternative is to use the Movie-Only Backup mode, which as I m sure you can guess will only backup your main movie. That means no menus, special features, or anything else. This a very nice option, as it allows you to obtain the maximum amount of quality possible for your main movie. Swing on over to the Settings menu, and after making sure that your Encoder is set to X264, go to your Encoder Settings. As you can see, I have select my encoding priority to be Normal Priority. The reason for goldfinger is that I want my encode to run as fast as possible. I won t be using the computer during the process, so I don t care if other applications slow down. Now, if I were going to be using the computer, I would want to set my priority to Idle. Also take a look at my Quality settings. By default, Automatic Quality Settings is selected, goldfinger is normally what you will use/want. I have unchecked it for the sake of showing you the amount of options available if for some goldfinger you do not want to go the automatic route. Usually I go ahead and stick with Automatic Quality Settings. Next, maneuver your mouse over to the Output Options menu. This is where we will be selecting our output size.