Does The Copy Retain All The Bonus Footage And Menus?

The ability to retain bonus footage and menus depends on the particular DVD copy software that you use. Some DVD copy programs are able to retain the bonus footage and menus that come with most DVDs, while others are not able to. Bonus footage typically includes behind-the-scenes clips and trailers of other upcoming movies. While some people like browsing through the bonus materials provided on their DVDs, other people never take the time to even glance at them, being intent solely on the main content of the DVD.

One of the greatest innovations that DVDs have over other forms of media storage such as the VCR tape and the Video CD is that produces are able to insert menus into DVDs. Menus function in much the same way as a navigation bar does on a website, allowing the user to skip to the particular area of the DVD that they are interested in. Some of the areas that you may link to through the menu on a DVD are the bonus materials section, credits, and scene-by-scene selection. The scene-by-scene selection ability is particularly useful if you only wish to watch a certain part of a movie, and want to skip right to that scene. Instead of having to fast-forward your way through the rest of the movie in order to get to that scene, you can simply select the scene from the menu and jump straight to it.

As mentioned before, whether you are able to retain the bonus footage and menus that come with your DVD depends on the software you use. If you are using 1Click DVD Copy 5 or 1Click DVD Copy Pro, then you will find no problems creating a copied DVD that contains all of the bonus material, menus, and other extras contained within the original DVD. With software like DVD Wizard Pro, however, you are only able to retain the bonus footage and menus if you choose to copy the DVD to your hard drive. If you choose to burn the copied file to a DVD, however, you will not be able to automatically keep the menus and bonus footage. You can, however, select the bonus footage manually and burn it onto a DVD just as you would a regular movie.

That said, most people do not mind losing the bonus footage or menus that original DVDs possess. They wish to create backup DVDs simply to preserve the movie that they originally bought the DVD for, and the extra material is of no real concern to them. If this is the case, then you need not base your decision of which DVD copy software to purchase on the ability to retain bonus footage or menus.

However, if you really wish to keep the bonus footage and menus that come with your original DVDs, then you should definitely make it a point to purchase only DVD copy software that is able to do that, such as 1Click DVD Copy 5 or 1Click DVD Copy Pro.