Trim VOBs to re-burn to DVD

[ehmjay]

So heres the deal.

I have some home video footage thats on a DVD but the person who did the original transfer left a lot of trailing black at the end (about 2 hours haha)

I've already ripped the files to my computer (with Mac The Ripper) and I want to trim out the black bits and then re-burn to DVD... without losing quality.

I know I could use MPEG Streamclip to trim, but not sure where to go from there... I could do what I normally do -- export as .mov with DV compression but that will result in a huge file thats only going to get recompressed...

so it seems silly to go that route.

I was reading the help and I thought de-mux might work but when I put them into Toast they show up as two seperate files rather than one (like it said it would).

I have both Toast and DVD Studio Pro (though DVDSP might be overkill?).

Any thought? thanks in advanced!

[Case]

I was reading the help and I thought de-mux might work but when I put them into Toast they show up as two seperate files rather than one (like it said it would).

Only drag-and-drop the video (foo.m2v). Toast will find the audio (foo.ac3 or foo.aiff or foo.m1a) by itself, or will ask you to locate it if it can't find it on its own.

[ehmjay]

okay - which demux should I use? regular? headed? unscaled?

thanks for the quick response.

[Case]

I always use 'regular' demux in MPEG Streamclip, without problems.
But honestly I wouldn't know what the others are for.

[pixel zombie]

i usually just save as vob and it works fine, but not always on toast..i somtimes have to use mpeg2works to make a dvd ready disc image...

[ehmjay]

i usually just save as vob and it works fine, but not always on toast..i somtimes have to use mpeg2works to make a dvd ready disc image...

i didn't realize there was a Save as VOB option -- I'll have to try that if I can find it. I'll try the demux method first.

[ehmjay]

Okay so I used the regular DEMUX option and the resulting file was 352x480... shouldn't it be bigger than that?

toast had to "re-encode" the footage which leads me to beleive that it's wrong...

[Case]

352x480 is a legal DVD resolution, so it could be right. Verify the source resolution with MediaInfo Mac and a secondary tool (e.g. MPEG Streamclip's Show Stream Info) to be sure.