Hi to whom it may concern, I have questions to ask. Is there a software that allows you to edit DVD videos?? For example, let's say I recorded a satellite TV show with a DVD recorder. Like a VHS cassette recorder. Once I done recorded the TV show straight on, from the beginning to the end onto a DVD, but it has all of the TV commercial during the hour of the TV show. My question for you, is there a software that would allow me to back up the DVD of a TV show that I recorded, into my PC, and to be able to select scenes, like TV commercials, and to edit them out and just keep the TV show onto a DVD? Most DVD recorder does NOT have the type of editing that I'm looking for. Except it only let you to edit titles for video segment(s) Any suggestions that you might have, would be great to know how. Thank you. Regards, Eugene
Simple and cheap. Rip the DVD to the hard drive. Run DVD Shrink, click 'Open Files' and load the video from the folder that it was ripped to. Click 'Re Author' On the right hand panel, drag 'Title 1' from right to left panel. Click the 'Start end Frames' symbol (looks like two arrows pointing different ways). A new window opens up. Set the start and end points where you want to keep the clip. An example is where the video begins with a commercial; you want the start frame to be where the commercial fades then end where the movie fades to the next commercial. Click 'OK', that part is now saved. Drag 'Title 1' from right to left again and repeat the procedure multiple times until you have all the clips you need. Each time that 'Title 1' is dragged to the left, Shrink appends a number to it to distinguish it from the re-authored clip. Click 'Backup' and either save or burn the compilation. You will have a new movie with all the clips seamlessly joined automatically. Edited for clarity.
Hi Attar, Thank you for your quick response. In fact I do have DVD Shrink for 5 or 6 years now, but I didn't know it can do MORE than I thought. I thought it allows you to JUST backup copy and use "Author" for JUST an individual movie. I didn't know that it can allow you to edit. I'll have to try. I'll let you know. Thanks, Eugene
Hi Attar, Need help!!!! Okay, here what I've done so far. On the 1 hour TV show, I was able to start the show and end right before the first commercial comes up. That's Title 1. How do I do the next one??? Like create Title 2 and on. There are lots of commercial spots in a 1 hour TV show. And Shrink won't allow me to change the number of the chapter in the box. How do I divided segmants??? I tried doing the samething as for the next title, but I may have screwed up. I dragged the whole movie again, like I did for the firt title 1. And when I was ready to set the beggining and the end of the second segmant of the show, it still says Chapter 1. Title 1 (2) And when I finished I looked at it and it showed the very beginning of the show!! I alreday did that on the first title. What did I do wrong? Or maybe you haven't givin me further instruction when it comes to doing segmants of TV shows with bunch of commercial spots. My gues is there are probably 5 or 6 commercial breaks in the 1 hour show. Like "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on ABC. Hope you can help me how to create more titles. I know how for the first title. Title 1. Thanks, Eugene
Hi Attar, It's Eugene, again. I tried it again for the 3rd time. It worked this time. I don't know why my first try in creating title 2 and 3 failed. Maybe it was new with shrink??? But at the third round, then I was able to create title 2 and 3. Hope it works for the next tv shows. I'll keep you inform. But if you have any additional info, please do let me know. Thanks again. Eugene
Glad you figured it out. Basically you are selecting a clip from the same title over and over again. Shrink simply appends and increments a number to each new clip that you select from the title. The main title (usually 1) is always the largest file. Commercial movies often have extra titles (coming attractions, trailers) but they are fractions of the size of the main movie.
Hey Attar, Thanks!! You're GREAT!!! I was able to assemble 6 segmants of 1 hour TV show. There were 6 commercial breaks that I have to devided. And I was able to put the TV show onto a DVD and it's 45 or 48 minute without 6 commercial breaks. Looks like a pro!!! When I mentioned that I failed at the first try. I ment to say that MAYBE Windows 98SE just doens't know that Shrink can do it. It gave an error curruption. So at the second and third try, Windows 98SE seems to accept it. I hope it stays that way. But I do have a laptop with Windows XP Pro that might accept what Shrink can do. In the meantime, you're great!!! Thanks!! Eugene-U.S.A.
Hey Attar, Gues what??? I discovered that Shrink can also allow you to edit DVD video from 2 DVDs once if backed up into the computer. You can brows the folders for 2 of DVD movies and able to combine them into one DVD!!! Say the first DVD movie is in "Movie 1" folder in the hard drive, and you would have to brows it for VIDEO_TS from that Movie 1 folder. And drage the titles from it into the editing line up. Then if you want to, to find other scene from another DVD movie, which you could back it up in "Movie 2" folder. Find VIDEO_TS and find the title you would like to include with the other title from the first DVD movie. Once done making selections, you can burn it into one whole DVD!!!! My brain told me so. : - )) Hey, I have a question for you Attar. Do you know any DVD software that would allow me to take a still picture out of a DVD movie frame?? I hate to drag my stand alone DVD player, hook it up to the computer, capture the scene I want from a DVD into the computer, and from there I had to pick out a frame from that scene. Sometime it doesn't always look good from capturing videos into the computer to make out of a still fram picture. Is there a software that allows you to take picture of the frame of the scene from a DVD?? IF you known, how to do it?? Once again, you're great, Attar. I think people should continue using DVD Shrink for DVD editing. Unless they don't know and only knows copy DVDs. I'm gonnna keep DVD shrink since 2002. Hope you can help with infos on taking still pics from a DVD video. Thanks, Eugene
Most of the media players allow it. I generally use VirtualDubMod or VirtualDub-MPEG to copy the frame to the clipboard then use Irfanview to immediately paste it. This shows the VirtualDub-MPEG screen (the saved frame is the same size as the actual video (720x480 for NTSC). Drag or open a .VOB file in VDUB-MPEG and drag the placeholder to a suitable frame, then 'Video' and click on the 'Save Frame' There are options for selecting a clip and outputting the whole range of frames as stills (a 2 second clip at 29 frames per second is a lot of pictures). VirtualDub-MPEG2 http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Virtualdub-MPEG2 VirtualDubMod http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889 VirtualDub-MPEG2 main job is for converting mpeg (VOB) to avi. VirtualDubMod is for AVI and MKV.
Hey, thanks for this thread as it has helped me as well. I have one question though: I went through and edited out the commercials and other crap from my DVD, in which I ended up creating 3 titles in the left pane. Whats weird is that after burning the disc and then opening it in shrink, it has Titles 2 and 3 in the "main movie" section and Title 1 under the "extra" section. The original disc had only one Title. I understand that the video has been split up due to my editing so I expect more Titles, but why does it place Title 1 under the extra section? The finished product plays fine as I can pop it in and it plays as one continuous video all the way through. Thanks for your help
It appears as though it places the large sections under main movie and the smaller parts in the extras.
