Copying specific episodes from DVD to make new compilation

[RobertUSM]

Hi all,

First of all, I own all seasons of "The Simpsons" that are currently out on DVD.

In the near future, my wife and I will be teaching a senior high school or college level Sunday School. We plan to use the book "The Gospel According to 'The Simpsons'" to illustrate several biblical concepts and teachings.

The book uses individual episodes of "The Simpsons" to illustrate its lessons.

What I'd like to do is take the individual episodes the book uses as examples off of their respective DVD discs, save them to my hard drive and then make a few compilation DVDs that follow the episode order of the book.

I've tried searching for something like this in the forums, but what I've found has been confusing. I have DVD Decryptor, InstantCopy and NERO.

If anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
RobertUSM

[ddlooping]

Hello RobertUSM.

Quite a few re-authoring softwares could be used for your purpose, but I'd suggest you try DVD Shrink as its free.
It's not a full-blown re-authoring program but contains enough features to enable you to achieve your goal.

Here are a few guides you could view so as to get a better idea of the process:

http://www.dvdshrink.info/guides.php

Have a look at the v2.3 to get the gist of the program, and at the v3.0 beta 5 ones for the re-authoring method you'll need to use.

[RobertUSM]

ddlooping,

Thanks for the info. Have downloaded DVDShrink and will give it a try.

While I'm posting, are there any other options out there for doing this?

I like to learn more than one way to do something!

Thanks,
RobertUSM

[mkelley]

What I would do would be to use DVDDecrypter to rip the individual episodes to your hard drive (you can do this with Shrink as well, but it's not quite as intuitive). Then I'd fire up DVDLab and import those VOBs by demuxing as I import. Author the DVD with DVDLab and you're home free.

DVDLab will cost you $79 (although there is a fully-functional 30 day trial, so you can see if you like it). DVDDecrypter, of course, is freeware. Give this workflow a try and you'll never do anything else (I've done the exact same thing you are doing, although I wasn't teaching Sunday school: I took Simpson Episodes off my DVDs and reauthored a disk with my favorites on it. Works a charm and is very easy).

[Gazorgan]

VDUB MOD version. You can save the exact scenes you want from the DVD rips.

It goes something like this:

1) Rip the DVD to harddrive with DVDDecryptor
2) Open the rip in VDUB Mod
3) mark the scene you want (see FAQ on VDUB)
4) at this point you can re-encode directly to a DVD complient MPEG2 via framserving.
5) rinse and repeat
6) Delete VOB's when finished.

I've done this for numerous 'Best of'Compilations.

DVDDecryptor will rip specific episodes of the simpsons instead of the whole disk ( 4 eps/disk, right or is it 8?). This can save a lot of space.