Best way to produce my own "Best Of" DVD

[burrowsp]

I apologize if this isn't the right forum but I've got good advice
here before.

I own a number of music videos and would like to combine
a few songs from each and re-author them into one "Best of" dvd.
I would like to preserve the original audio/video quality if possible.
I have cce, winavi, DGIndex and a number of other conversion tools.

I tried a DVD Ripper to create an AVI file and the resulting file
didn't look great. Maybe it was the tool.

What is a good tool for extracting a particular clip and what
should the output be ? AVI ? MPEG2 (is this format video only ?)
I am just getting into this stuff so forgive the simple questions.

Am I going to have trouble if the aspect ratios are different ?
I was thinking of using TMPGEnc DVD Author or ULead of MovieMaker
to create the final movie.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Baldrick]

I would use dvd shrink in reauthoring mode to cut out the clips and then add the vobs in tda.

https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=502&howtoselect=3;6#502

[burrowsp]

Thanks. I didn't notice that guide. Sounds exactly what I'm looking for.
I'll give it a try.

[ZippyP.]

For transitions between clips I would use a tool like MVW, it has a 30 day fully functional trial.

[burrowsp]

I hadn't noticed that feature of DVD Shrink before. It works well.
One thing - I'm using r3.2 and am not experiencing any issues with the sound being off, as described in the guide above.

I have created each clip and then added them to DVD Author project.

Thanks for the suggestion, ZippyP. I'll look into that.

[burrowsp]

I finished ripping each song using Shrink, but when I went to put Author them, DVD Author complained that the combined bit rate
of the video of 9800 and audio 448 exceeded the 9848.
I suppose I'll need to reduce the video ? using ? CCE ?

Another thing I found was that I had to add one track for each combination of aspect ratio and audio properties, since I couldn't combine them on one track.
Maybe I should make them the same ? using ? CCE ?

Thanks again

[manono]

Hi-

I suppose I'll need to reduce the video ?

Not necessarily (and probably not). Go ahead and author. Only if you get buffer underruns will you have to reencode.

I didn't understand the second question. Are some of the videos 4:3 and others 16:9? If so, and if the audios are all different as well, there's nothing wrong with authoring them as separate tracks. If I were you, I'd try and avoid reencoding, as it seems to me that you may not be very experienced using a real MPEG-2 encoder.

[burrowsp]

You're right - I'm not. I've used DGIndex, CCE/AviSynth, DGPulldown/DVD Author to convert PAL to NTSC but that was fairly straightforward.

Yes. Some are 4x3, others 16x9, some AC3, others stereo.

I'll ignore the warnings by DVD Author and see what happens.

Thanks