Add photo to completed DVD project

[tmh]

I made a family DVD for my parents with 50 years of movie footage and photos. All their grandkids were in it, but a new one has been born recently. The only good place to insert a picture of the baby is in a section of camcorder footage of all the grandkids arranged for a photo.

Is there any way to add a photo to the corner of the footage (not an overlay of the entire thing obviously, just "pasted" into the scene. It's all in DVD format now but I likely could get the original DV footage if needed.

I know enought to take the DVD apart with Tmpg DVD Author, add a section if need be, then re-author it. I just don't know how to superimpose the photo into that small section.

No pay programs. I have other ways to do this, just not quite what I wanted. It's not worth spending any money on at all. But if free I'll do it.

Thanks as always.

[hech54]

There is a Virtualdub filter that can do that. Trust me...I am no expert at Virtualdub but I was experimenting and noticed that filter. It works pretty well but will definately require that you "tear apart" that DVD and completely re-do it.

[tmh]

Thanks for the suggestion of trying VDub. I can't figure out how to do it in VDub, but I'm no expert either. Also, it's currently a DVD file so I assume I need to convert to avi or something to do this.

I may just add the photo on it's own to the video, although it's not the preferred solution. Anyone else know how to do this?

Thanks.

[lordsmurf]

Maybe NLE editing .... Avid Free DV, not sure on plug-in encoder or output

[tmh]

Thanks for the ideas, but I haven't been able to get anything to do what I want yet. It doesn't seem "impossible" so I'm bumping this up one more time in the hope that someone knows how to add a photo to a DVD section as described in my first post in this thread. Thanks.

[ZippyP.]

MVW will accept a VOB as input and allow full editing, including adding stills. It will only re-encode the parts as necessary. Free for 30 days.

[träskmannen]

You can always try VirtualDubMod, it will accept VOBs as input. Use the logo filter to overlay an image over the video ("Video - filters - add" will get you there). Drawback: you get an AVI as output so you will need to re-encode. I think you need to resize the photo first.

[tmh]

OK, thanks all. Here's where I am (pretty close I think). I concluded that it was best to just replace the 2 sec clip with a still photo. This let me do a better job adding the last baby to the grandkid clip. So NOW here's what I have.

The original 1 hr. video in a Video_TS file with 4 VOBs making up the video. I also encoded the photo to mpeg2. So now what I have to do is go into one of the VOBs and replace 2 sec with the new mpeg2 video. I need to leave the original soundtrack intact.

Anyone have a way to do this? I assume I can use VDubMod but I've never demuxed video/audio with it before and I'm not sure that is what I need to do.

Thanks.