I recently had some old 8mm films copied onto a single DVD. They were not copied in the correct order and I'm now trying to figure out how to put them in the correct order on DVD. I am using TMPGEnc DVD Author but have not found any details on how to actually move chapters around. I've reviewed the user guides but have not found one that allows a "copy/paste", "drag/drop"... of chapters to change the order of the show. Can you help? I also created a chapter in the middle of a clip which I would like to "undo" now but am afraid that the entire clip for that chapter will be deleted.
I don't know of a way to rearrange the chapters of an authored DVD with TMPGEnc, but if you want a fast and cheap way you can try DVD Shrink in re-author mode then use TMPGEnc to fix it up with a nice menu. Bring the dvd into Shrink. Click 'Re-author' and drag 'Title 1' from the right to left pane. Click the 'Start/End Frames' symbol and select the part of your video that you want to be the first chapter and click 'ok'. Title 1 on the left is now the clip you selected (look at the duration change). Drag 'Title 1' from Right to Left again.Notice that it is now called 'Title 1(2)' and click the 'Start/End Frames' symbol. Select the next clip. Keep dragging and clipping until your happy. Click 'Backup' and save to a hard disk folder. Bring the clips into your new project in TMPGenc one at a time (click, 'add dvd video') There will be a 'title' for each file you clipped. Don't edit or add any chapters, just proceed through each clip until all of them are on board and you are ready to create a menu. The second page of the menu will show each of your clips as a 'chapter'. Output your project to the hard drive(don't burn it yet) then bring it back into DVD Shrink to see if it looks good before burning.
This seemed to be working until I encountered error "Failed to write file... Insufficient quota to complete the requested servis". I looked this up and was directed to install Nero to burn the CD. OK I did that.. I downloaded Nero 7 and it failed miserably in creating the CD . I looked up the errors and found that everyone is falling back to Nero 6 because of the bugs (which I just encountered) in Nero 7. But there are also trials in trying to deinstall and clean my PC of Nero 7... hopefully I will get a CD burned before Xmas. This shouldn't be this hard.. should it?
If you are trying to burn from DVD Shrink, elect to do it with DVD Decrypter instead of Nero. http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/
