reauthoring DVD movie

I want to create one movie from few tv episodes and remove credits from beginig and end of each episode. What software I can use to do that? I have whole series on dvd which seems protected but I've managed to install dvd43 so now I'm able to copy to Hard drive but that's it.

Norbert

 

Try "DVD Shrink" in "ReAuthor" mode or You could also try "DVD Rebuilder" .....

What I do is I rip the DVD and then edit out the Parts that i want to Keep and then use a DVD authoring Program to Put them on to DVD with a main Menu were I can select which Episode I want to watch...

I simply Rip the DVD to my Hard Drive as a Single Big VOB File useing SmartRipper and then use a Mpeg editor like "Womble Mpeg Video Wizard 2005" to edit out the Parts I want on my DVD and save them as a Mpeg-2 file and then load the Mpeg-2 files into "MediaChance DVDLab pro" and create a Menu and my own Chapter and scene selections and then author them to DVD and there is No Quality Loss either unless I decide to compress the Files....

Cheers

 

If you are willing to add a few more steps, you can actually extract the original Hollywood menus from the DVD.

You can do it without extra software (DVD Decrypter and MS Paintbrush), but it may take some time (and patience) to create the subpicture files.

I use DVDreauthor demo version (by DVD Logic) to extract the menus from VTS_0X_0.vob. It will split the menu files by VOB ID and also create the sub pictures. The files will be ready to import to any DVD Authoring application as they will be in .m2v, .ac3 & .bmp format.

For DVDlab Pro, you will need to perform 1 extra step for still menus. You will have to take a snapshot of the menu using Media Player Classic and then load that as the menu.

Even if you decide not to do this, DVDlab Pro is excellent for creating your own menus. It is incredibly simple and you get very nice results.

 

Thanks a lot. This really helps. I'll get right on it.

Norbert

 

Now I'm confused with chapters.
Now I have episodes I want but no menu and no chapters. How Do I create chapters?
I didn't want to combine all 6 episodes in one but I wanted them seperately. Any ideas?

 

What are you useing to author your Files to DVD?? If you are useing DVDLab pro it will let you add Chapters anywere you want and as many you want (Up to 99 per File) it can also add them on regular Intervals or use Scene detection to add the Chapter Points....

It will also let you add up to 99 menu"s per VTS useing any Image you want to use or use some of the Premade Backrounds that DVDLab has to create your own menu"s...You can also use Video and audio Clips as Menu"s, I will sometimes Make my own Video Menu"s by editing a Bunch of scenes from the Movie together and use it as a Menu...

You can even make a DVD that Looks Like one you rent from the Video store with Nice menu"s and Scene selection and subtitles and Multiple audio Tracks and with Special features ect...anything a Professinal DVD Has you can Create useing DVDLab Pro.....

What is the Specific problem you are Haveing???

Cheers

PS: If you are useing DVDLab you will see the Chapter Options Right above the Preview screen at the Bottom Right....

 

Well, I've managed to get all episodes with chapters but no menu.
I use dvd shrink. I really don't need any special menu just page with numbers so I can choose any particular chapter.

I don't know how I did it but movie has subtitles now all the time, I would like to have the as option if possible.

By the way, Anyone knows how to combine movies (episodes) from two or three saperate dvd's into one dual layer dvd?

 

I am confused with your subtitles. Usually you have to add/import them yourself. Make sure that you do not check the forced option. Also, go to connections and right click on your movie. Then select "UOPs & Settings". Make sure you set the subtitles initially to be off or default.

As for combining discs, it is very simple. For Re-authoring movies, I love using DVD Decrypter in IFO mode. Go into IFO mode. Rather than showing you files, it will split the movie by PGCs. In episodic DVDs, look for the PGCs that are the length of the episode.

First, you have to extract the chapter information. Right click on a PGC and select "create information file". Then select the format. DVDlab is one of the options, but also the DVD Maestro format will work for DVDlab. Save the file.

Now back in the main IFO mode screen, you will click on the "stream processing" tab. Check the "enable stream processing" box. Then right click on one of the files and first select "file splitting=>none". Then right click again and select "set all - Demux". When you are finished, click the Decrypt button.

DVD Decrypter will output the PGC in .M2V, .AC3, and .sub files. You will use the .m2v & .ac3 for DVDlab. Repeat for all the PGCs you wish to use in your compilation.

Now your files are ready for importing into DVDlab (or any other authoring program).

If you wish to have your entire disc on 1 .m2v file and 1.ac3 file (recommended for simple episode authoring), you should rip normally in File mode then use something like VOBEdit to Demux your files. Open the first vob (VTS_0X_1.vob). Use the "process multiple streams at once" options. Check the audio and video boxes and then click OK.

You said you want to create your own menus, so I will briefly explain that process.

A nice way to do multiple discs is to have a VMG menu. This means use the "advanced" option when launching DVDlab pro or simply add a VMG menu. You can also do this without a VMG menu, but it works a tad better with the VMG.

VMG menus are great for using multiple VTS, so this is what you are going to do. Say you want to do 3 discs. Create 2 more VTS by right clicking in the project tree and selecting "add new VTS". Also create a menu for each of these VTS by right clicking the nenus folder and selecting "Add new menu".

Double click on VMG menu1. Now look at your asset bin and click on the backgrounds tab. Drag and drop a background. Next you will add text. Put some title text first. Say you are doing 3 discs of "Family Guy". Write the text "Family Guy" in rather large text (80 size works well). Add whatever effect you want to this.

Next add some smaller text for the disc buttons. Add the following text: "Disc 1", "Disc 2" & "Disc 3". Make this text size about half the title size so 40 or less. Now link the "Disc 1" text to VTS 1 Root; "Disc 2" to VTS 2 Root; and "Disc 3" to VTS 3 Root. Add the text effects if you want and then you are finished here.

Now add your movies. Add the large .M2v file for disc 1 to VTS 1 ad then add the audio file. Next create chapters in between episodes. If you are making a movie, use the chapter information created by Decrypter. When you are finished here, click on "menu=>scene selection menu=>thumbnail scene selection". Pick your format and then make sure it is pointing to the correct movie and menu. Do the same for all of the VTS.

Next, open the connections window. Right click on the scene selection 1 for VTS1 and set this as the root menu. Next right click on the blank menu (the original root menu) and select "edit VM commands".

Once the new screen opens, select "script editor" and then click the edit button for the PRE COMMANDS. Then click on "Quick Links" and select VMG Menu1 and click OK.

Do the same for each VTS.

What this does is, when you select the "menu" text on your scene selection menus, it will take you to the VMG menu and skip the blank menu. However pressing Menu on the Remote will take you to Scene Selection 1 of the VTS you are in. To get to the main menu you will have to press the Title button on the remote.

There will not be a "Play all" button or a "play/resume" menu button. After you call the menu, you will have to resume by pressing the menu button again. That is possible to do, but you will need a few more VM commands and that will get a bit too complicated.

As always, make sure you test your DVD naviagation before burning or burn to an RW disc first. I like using IFOEdit as a software test of DVD navigation and playback. This is usually enough to make a final disc, but a DVDRW will give you the best test for your DVD player.

If you need a guide with pictures written for this, let me know here and then through PM and I can make one for you. It will take a few hours to write it though.

 

It's sounds very complicated but I'll try my best doing that.
It'll be a while i guess.

 

I tried but I'm still confused.
Steps you've provided are for one episode and if I have 6 episodes on this particular disk I have to do that 6 times?
I did one time and I got twp ac3 files, one ifo, one mv2, two sub files and one text.
If this is only for one episode I need to have 6 separate folders with those files?

Do you have any expirience with DVD Shrink cause I used that software to remove credits from begining and the end of each episode but I was only able to make one dvd not two.

Once again, I want to combine two disks (12 episodes)

 

As far as I know, DVD Shrink can only reauthor 1 disc.

If you used DVD Decrypter in IFO mode, you will have to do it for all the episodes. You can only get them all in 1 file in File Mode. Here is what you got;

The Text file is nothing. It just lists the streams.
The .ifo, in this case, is worthless
The .M2V is your Video file
the .AC3 is your Audio file
The .sub files are the Subtitle files, but you cannot use these

If you want to use DVD Shrink to reauthor and remove the intros and credits, first rip your first disc in File Mode using DVD Decrypter. This is only to reduce wear on your DVD Drive.

Then load up Shrink and go into reauthor mode and reauthor the episodes one at a time. Each episode should give you a complete DVD Folder (of course minus the other episodes).

Next you will want to rename all of the VTS_0x_x.vob files (DO NOT use VIDEO_TS.vob or VTS_0x_0.vob). Name episode 1, "VTS_01_1.vob"; Episode 2, "VTS_02_1.vob"; and so one. You can also choose to name them "VTS_01_1.vob"; "VTS_01_2.vob", etc... This is only for reference really.

Next you will want to put them all in 1 folder (Remember, NOT VIDEO_TS.vob or VTS_0x_0.vob). Next create a subfolder in this directory called Demux1 & Demux2. This is where you will have your demuxed streams for disc 1 and 2.

Now download and launch VOBEdit (free program). Open VTS_01_1.vob. Next click on Demux. Now check, "demux all video streams" and "demux all audio streams". Select the Demux1 Folder as the destination. Save and click OK.

After a few minutes you will have 1 Large .M2V file and 1 or more large AC3 files. This will be your Main movie and audio files for the first disc. Launch DVDlab Pro and import the .M2V & .AC3 files. If there are no errors, you are good (Ignore GOP warnings).

Now close DVDlab Pro. Delete the .VOB files that DVD Decrypter ripped from disc1 (only to save HD space). Now repeat the process for Disc2.

When you Demux using VOBEdit, you will save the streams in the "Demux2" folder.

Since all of your episodes will be in two .m2v files, they will be rather large (about 5-6 Gigs each). This means that you need an NTFS formatted HD to do this. If you are using FAT32, you will have to do 1 episode at a time.

Ok Now you will Launch DVDlab Pro for the actual authoring process. You can follow what I wrote in the previous post.

VTS1 will have disc1 and VTS2 will have disc2. Remember to create your own chapter points in between Episodes only. This way DVDlab Pro will create the Scene Select Menus and not you.

Again, if you need a guide with pictures let me know.

 

This all seems needlessly Complicated for a Fairly Simple operation...

All I do is Rip the DVD to your Hard Drive as a Single Big VOB file and then if you need to do any editing or arrangeing of episodes in a particular order then i load the Big VOB file into a native Mpeg editor like "Womble Mpeg Video Wizard 2005" and arrange the Video in any way i wish and then save the VOB file as a Mpeg-2 file and then i load the Mpeg-2 file into DVDLab and add a Chapter Point at the Beginning of each episide and then make a Main menu with Buttons that Link to the seperate episodes and then compile and Burn to DVD, Then when you put the DVD in your DVD Player the main Menu will pop up and you can select which episide to watch...It is all Quite Simple....

Cheers

 

It's not really that complicated. It is the same process that you described minus the Womble program. I just went in depth...almost step by step. There are just too many possibilities when authoring, so I had to go more in depth than I had to.

I do not have Womble, but it sounds like it would simplify things a bit as it would remove DVD Shrink and VOBEdit from what I wrote. That's pretty neat that it can edit multiple episodes at once in the VOB file.

 

I have decided to use DVD Shrink to resolve my problem with episodes.
I removed part I didn't wanted.

Now i got 5 episodes on 1 dvd's but i have one problem. I didn't want menus, only chapters to saperate each episode from each other, however I ended up with: 5 titles, each with 10 chapters.
Like I've said I only want to have 5 chapters to tell episodes apart.
How do I do that and if this is possible with DVD Shrink.

 

Find out wich are the video .vob's and import them into dvd-lab/your authoring software and set chapter points.