Doing multiple feature DVDs

[caipirina]

Hello friendly people,

I know there is a similar thread on this .. but it did not give me the answers I seek

I want to create DVDs with several movies on them ... no bother with extras or menus .. (kids movies .. my son is totally no respecting fragile DVDs so I want to put his movies on backups)

so far i have ripped the movies in question and shrank them with DVD2oneX .. so i have nice sized VIDEO_TS files .. but toast would not allow me to put more than one video_ts on one disc .. what am i missing .. all i want is some simple menu option, as I believe Toast offers for VCDs .. so i can say which movie to play

I guess there is a simple answer to this .. but right now .. playing with Toast (7.0.2.) i cannot see it .. any pointers ??

[lawnman]

Try the join mode in DVD2oneX.

[Frobozz]

You need to extract the MPEGs from the VIDEO_TS folders and put them in the Toast Video window using DVD video as the format. With Toast 7 this is very easy. Place the VIDEO_TS folder on your desktop. Click the Media button in Toast to access the Media Browser. Choose DVD with the top button. Go down to the title level with the second button. When the movie title appears in the window drag it across to the Video window. Toast then extracts the MPEG from the VIDEO_TS and shows it as a title. Remove that VIDEO_TS from the desktop and place another one there and do the same thing.

You also can do this without DVD2OneX if you want. Drag the titles from the original VIDEO_TS folders to the Toast Video window and choose Save as Disc Image from the File menu. When that is written, select the disc image file in the Toast Copy window and - with the fit to DVD option checked on - click the burn button. Toast will compress the too-large disc image to burn to a single-layer disc.

[twosocks]

You can achieve what to want to do in Toast.

Let's say that you have 3 movies that you want to combine on 1 disc using a Toast generated menu. Make sure that all three of your movie folders are in your "Movies" folder. For simplicity, let's just call them Movie A, Movie B & Movie C.

Now, fire up Toast, click on the Video Tab and the Formats button. Under the Formats/Media button click on the DVD-Video button. You can also chose your menu now, if you like. To keep Toast from reencoding the Video files that you're about to introduce, let's now click on the "More" button on the bottom of the window. You'll now see another window drop with the heading "Disc Settings / Encoding". Click on "Encoding", then click on "Custom" and change the Reencoding drop down to NEVER. Now click on OK, whicj will put you back at the main window.

Now let's grab our movie files......

Click on the MEDIA button.

Click on the drop down button directly underneath it and chose MOVIES.

Click on the drop down button underneath MOVIES and you will see all folders in your MOVIES folder. You should now see your 3 folders, Movie A, Movie B & Movie C. You should also see the VIDEO_TS sub folder under each one.

Starting with Movie A, chose its VIDEO_TS sub folder and you now see all the VOB's. If there is only 1 movie per VIDEO_TS, it will probably be named something like VTS_03_1.vob. In fact the first frame will be a thumbnail. Drag it over to the right, it should now be in the main Toast window. The file name will be shown, along with the creation date and the length of the movie in minuteseconds.

Repeat the same procedure for the Movie B & C folders and you'll have 3 different movies.

Be mindfull of the DVD space estimation bar, just above the RED burn button, as long as it stays GREEN, you'll have enough room on the DVD. If it turns orange you'll have to remove a movie file.

I realize that in the time that it's taken me to type this, someone has probably answered you and/or I could have flown to Italy to personally show you.

Good Luck

[caipirina]

Thanks everyone for their input and especially twosocks for the long, detailed write up .. can't wait to test that out ...

for some strange reason, DVD2oneX did not shrink my files as much as I wanted . i said 1000MB (to get 4 movies on one disc in the end) but in both test cases the video_ts files ended up being 1.98 GB .. will have to fiddle with that a bit

but 2 movies a disc is not bad at all ..

[From a Buick 8]

Try the join mode in DVD2oneX.

The Join mode in DVD20nex should work, did you try that. If you do not need menus, then this would be the most straight forward way of doing it.

[caipirina]

i think i played with the join mode before ... but while I do not need the original disc menus .. i still would like a menu that let's me chose which movie to watch ... (last time i tried join ... which is a while ago, i had to use the skip button on the remote like 30 times to get to movie # 2 )