ADVICE SOUGHT - RE-Editing DVD made from VHS

[Hal05154]

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to help some friends out and re-edit some DVD's made from VHS tapes. The original menus do not operate very well, and since I have TMPGEnc, I thought I'd try and redo them

I originally thought I'd make an AVI from the DVD and just edit that using DVD2AVI, for some reason I could not make an AVI file. I also couldn't copy this DVD for some reason. It' has the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS subdirectories.

If you've done this kind of re-editing before, I'd sure appreciate being point in the right direction.

Thanks,

Hal

[redwudz]

I wouldn't convert the format if all you want to do is make new menus. You could extract the MPEGs from the VOBs with VOB2MPG and re-author without losing any quality. Even if you need to edit the MPEG, I would leave it in that format and use a MPEG editor. Re-encoding it twice will just reduce whatever quality you have even further.

I'm guessing it might have been made on a DVD recorder and that may be part of your problem with extracting it. You could try DVD Decrypter if VOB2MPG won't work.

[Hal05154]

I have DVD Decrypter, I'll try that if I need to.

Also, I forgot, but I tried using TMPGEnc to edit the original DVD, but I could not import the data for some reason. Maybe it's the DVD recorder issue you sited above.

I'll let you know how it goes!

[Noahtuck]

Are you talking about TMPGEnc OR TDA (TMPGEnc DVD Author) ?

You can just rip the disc , VIDEO_TS folder to your HDD, import that into TDA and make your menu's, set chapter points, edit out unwanted footage, ect.
Fast, Simple & Easy!!!!!!