authoring a dvd with two 'movies' of different resolutions

[pedrohead]

i was given a concert video with two halves, one of 704x480 resolution, and one of 352x480, apparently encoded that way by the original encoder so it could all fit on one dvd. it plays fine on my standalone, but i'm trying to clean it up in dvd lab and add nice menus and chapters and what not.

when i compile the dvd, it combines the two streams to 1 set of VOB/BUP/IFO files, unlike how it came in with two sets of VOB files (one set for each screen resolution). it looks fine on my computer dvd player, but on my standalone, the second half (which is still it's own track) only plays half the screen.

is there anyway to author the dvd in dvd-lab and tell it not to combine both movies into the same set of vob files, cause if they're still two separate tracks with their own .bup and .ifo files, it should work just like it did before. please help. thanks.

[SaSi]

You need the PRO version, 1.4 - still in beta but works like a charm.

The web site has a guide to walk you through creating a DVD with two titlesets. The reason the program was enhanced was exactly the kind of example you mentioned.

PS. The exaple given on creating the dual titleset DVD looks a bit complicated at first, but once you start it really is simple enough.

[pedrohead]

hmmm... you probably can't demo the pro version though, can you? i really don't want to pay that much for software just to shine up this one video with some chapter and menu settings.

[mmasw]

Try TMPGEnc DVDAuthor....it will easily do what you want and has a fully functional 30 day trial

[pedrohead]

actually i already tried TMPEG dvd-author a couple months ago and already burned through my 30 day trial. i even contacted them to try to extend it for a week so i could get this done, but couldn't figure out how.