Can I put new video into a prevoiusly Authored DVD?

[Schmilsson1969]

I've made a DVD set of videos for a christmas present. It took me 3 months to compile and author it. I now see that I've missed a clip and I don't have the raw materials anymore thanks to a nasty disc crash. Is there any way to add the one video and a menu to the DVD without having to disassemble the disc and start from scratch?

Thanks for any help you could offer!

Terry

[mats.hogberg]

No. You won't have to start from scratch, but you have to extract the video/audio from the existing DVD, adn use this togehter with your new video and menu to author anew.

/Mats

[Schmilsson1969]

OK, beautiful. Thanks for the quick reply. It is a relief. Now, to ask one more question: What would be the best tool to do the extracting? I used TMPEG DVD author to do the original DVD, but, while it will import DVD files, it won't import Menus (at least, not that I can see). What would I use to extract everything, including menus? Sorry for all of the questions.

Terry

[mats.hogberg]

I use ReJig to extract A/V from VOB to (mp2 or ac3 or lpcm)/m2v. If you have menu on your exixting disc, I'd scrap it, since it won't do you much good anyway when you alter the contents, but the background video/audio can be extracted just like the main title.

/Mats

[jimmalenko]

AFAIK you should just beable to import each titleset back into a new project, and all you will have to do is rip the DVD to your Hard Drive. Then you Add Video, and select the VIDEO_TS directory, then select each titleset in turn to add them back in. In other words, I don't think you have to go through demuxing each title. I'm not 100% sure though.

[broadway]

Look for a program called Isobuster.
It'll extract the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders from your DVD.

[mats.hogberg]

So does Windows Explorer...

/Mats

[daamon]

AFAIK you should just beable to import each titleset back into a new project, and all you will have to do is rip the DVD to your Hard Drive. Then you Add Video, and select the VIDEO_TS directory, then select each titleset in turn to add them back in. In other words, I don't think you have to go through demuxing each title. I'm not 100% sure though.

As it's a home-authored DVD, I'm with jimmalenko...

[jimmalenko]

AFAIK you should just beable to import each titleset back into a new project, and all you will have to do is rip the DVD to your Hard Drive. Then you Add Video, and select the VIDEO_TS directory, then select each titleset in turn to add them back in. In other words, I don't think you have to go through demuxing each title. I'm not 100% sure though.

As it's a home-authored DVD, I'm with jimmalenko...

I think mats might be right with extracting the menu though. One would assume that if you left out a clip, the menu might have to be redone from scratch.

[daamon]

True - But wouldn't that be done when (re)authoring in TDA? Starting from scratch that is... Not loading in the old one.

I don't know the tool, but would something like menuedit be able to do anything?

[jimmalenko]

True - But wouldn't that be done when (re)authoring in TDA? Starting from scratch that is... Not loading in the old one.

Yeah.

I don't know the tool, but would something like menuedit be able to do anything?

I don't know much about MenuEdit

[Schmilsson1969]

Thanks for all of the replies, guys.

What I ended up doing was this. I ripped the DVD to an ISO file with DVD Decrypter, then used Daemon Tool to assign it to a hard drive letter.

I then opened it up with DVDReMake Pro and exported all of the menus to BMP format.

Then I went to TMPEG DVD Author and imported all of the DVD files from the ISO and then added the additional video segment to the end. Then I put up all of the BMPs as menu screens, placing the buttons and preview screens over where the buttons were originally.

Wasn't that bad, actually.

Terry

[mazinz]

i was going to say you could have used dvdremake pro to add a new button as well as your new clip to your already existing dvd and this would have saved you the hassle of re-authoring

[Schmilsson1969]

I was absloutely intending to go that route but since each clip had been assigned a seperate menu, it went beyond just adding a button. Still, a learning experience in Jerry Rigging. Can't be all bad.

Terry