ULead help on editing

[wetcamelfood]

Hi, I use Ulead Disc Creator 3 & for some odd reason when I copy a store bought DVD to a DVD+RW via 1 Click DVD Copy, I'm allowed to edit it's contents in ULead's "Edit disc" screen but when I burn something on to a +RW from my old VHS and try to "Edit disc" on ULead, the option for "Multi trimming" is grayed out in the "Edit disc" section (same thing when I copy stuff from the TV DVD Recorder burnt disc to a +RW via 1 Click...). I can't copy the discs straight from ULead because I get the message saying the contents are too big. I use ULead because that's one of the few programs I can find that uses the screen resolution low enough for my monitor & I haven't needed to change file formats or worry about synching problems when doing this via ULead.

Anyways, can someone tell me what I need to do in order to edit discs on ULead after putting the VHS stuff on to the +RW's on my TV DVD recorder? My TV DVD recorder automatically finalizes the +RW's when done burning & I've tried -RW's finalized & Unfinalized on ULead and those won't load on ULead in either case so that's why I'm trying the +RW's. I just want to cut out commercials. Thanks in advance.

[pepegot1]

If the editor is the same one in VideoStudio X.0, then it sucks bigtime! The rest of the program is very good, but the editor is poor. I use VideoRedo and it is far superior to Ulead's editor.

[lennyt]

When you say "store bought DVD" do you mean a Commercial movie??

If you do then you should know that 99% of the movies released on DVD are copy protected and will not be copied by any of Ulead's products or any other commercial product.

[wetcamelfood]

Yeah, that's what I meant. 1 Click came with DVD4Free which gets around the copy protection, that's why I think it's odd that I CAN edit movies on ULead (after going through 1 Click & DVD 4Free of course) but not stuff I tape/burn off TV. Thanks for the Video ReDo tip though, I'll check it out.

[wetcamelfood]

OK, I've D/L'ed it & opened a DVD on it. Now when I choose the first file, it only covers the first 20 minutes of the 2 hour show. Should I just ignore the fact that it's separated it in to 5 or 6 files and edit each one, add chapters and then assume they'll all run together on the finished disc? ...or do I need to merge the 6 files before editing/chaptering? I know this sounds so basic that it's probably covered by one of the write ups on the site but there are so many there that I was hoping I could get some "...for dummies" help on this here since I don't know which one specifically would be the one I'd need). Thanks in advance.