Method for adding a menu to a backup...

[Nilfennasion]

I'll start at the beginning.

An uncle of mine has a disc of Simpsons episodes that he scratched badly enough he couldn't play them back on his set-top machine anymore. After discussing this with my mother, she just casually mentioned that I have a burner and can make a copy or two for him. But therein lies the problem. Rather than do a bit-for-bit copy, he also wants me to axe out the copyright messages (mother mentioned I could do that, too). So I have to figure out how to add a menu after the fact.

In essence, I want to retain the English subtitles and add a menu of my own design. TMPGEnc seems to allow the latter, but not the former, which I find irritating to say the least. Is there a procedure that allows me to keep the subtitles I want, and add my own menu?

[Matt D]

Do you NEED to add menus and such? Seems to me that you could use something like Vobblanker to just blank out your copyright messages and then just burn a straight copy of the remaining footage along with the original menus and subs intact.
Doing what you mention seems like a lot of work to bother with. The uncle should just be happy he can watch the disc again IMO.

[waheed]

Matt D is correct. you dont need a menu. you can also use TitleSetBlanker is strip out the warning screens.

Im a little confused with:

An uncle of mine has a disc of Simpsons episodes that he scratched badly enough he couldn't play them back on his set-top machine anymore.

If you're uncle has scratched the disc badly then how are you going to rip the disc to your hard disc, you'll just keep getting errors when ripping.

As far as im aware, PC dvd rom/writers are more sensative to errors than set top dvd players.

[andkiich]

DVD-Lab

[nufan292]

Don't you hate it when people volunteer you for shi... stuff like that.