Is there software out there that will simply take my VOBs from the DVD-R, import them and add new menus, without re-encoding or anything like that. I know DVD MovieFactory does it on PC, but what about the Mac?
Is there a guide anywhere? Tried a quick search, but no luck!
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dvd studio pro http://www.apple.com/dvdstudiopro/newversion/
it will set you back a pretty penny though. But I believe this will do just what you want.
Never done it myself though, so I dont have a how to. -
If you get DVDSP, let us know, and I'll explain how it's done. Basically, you need to demux the VOBs to import into DVDSP (I think) using Extractor, merging all the VOBs into single m2v and ac3 streams, import these into DVDSP, create your menu using Photoshop and QT or whatever, set it up in DVDSP, and build a new DVD. It's quite an involved process, but I could break it down if you're really interested. Also, there are many threads here explaining the intricacies of DVDSP usage.
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Thanks guys. I do own DVDSP (or at least it still resides!) on the Mac I bought second-hand. Couldn't get it to read VOBs 'out of the box' so to speak, but if you do have a breakdown of the process (and the time to type it!), I'd be most grateful.
Using DVD MovieFactory yesterday on the PC went like a dream - quite easy to build a menu, if a long wait for the video/audio multiplexing. I also have Virtual PC so could theoretically go this way on my Mac, but would be interested to see the DVDSP route. -
The manual for DVDSP is available for free download at apple.com.
It even has a tutorial, I believe.
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DVD Studio Pro Tutorial
OK, you get Extractor to extract the m2v and ac3 streams from the VOBs. Extractor is available here: http://denisx.dyndns.org/extractor/. You drag your unencrypted VOBs to its window, check the 'Single File' box, along with the 'Save M2V Video' and 'Save AC3 Audio' boxes, and hit 'Extract'. Then, you launch DVDSP, make the main project window smaller so it doesn't block out the screen, find the m2v and ac3 files, and drag them onto the asset window of DVDSP. If you get an error for the m2v file, no problem, you can fix it. If you get an error for the ac3 file, it's a problem. You probably got a partial ac3 file, and might not be able to use it. There are ways of editing it to use it anyways, but you might lose synch. But I digress, if you got the error on the video only, try running RNC's great program More Missing Tools (http://homepage.mac.com/rnc/.Public/MoreMissingTools.sit), and running the BITS (timecode) tool on your m2v file. Once that is done, it should import into DVDSP. If it doesn't, you can try the PulldownX tool (http://homepage.mac.com/rnc/.Public/PullDownX.sit), running it on your m2v file with default settings.
OK, once all this is done, and you hopefully have your m2v and ac3 files imported into DVDSP, you launch your favorite photo editing soft (namely Photoshop), make a new image at 720*480 pixels at 72 pixels/inch, and build yourself a menu picture, with any relevant pictures and text, buttons, etc. You can also build motion menus using QuickTime pro, but I'm not going to go into that, since you can search the forum here for 'motion menus'. Once you have your menu pic done, you can save it as a multi-layered psd file (photoshop document), or as a single-layered pict file. After that, you need to make yourself a button overlay pic, which is a black on white picture, 720*480, 72 ppi, 1bit color representation of where you want the button highlights at. You only want the parts of the picture that light up when selected in the DVD menu (like rollovers) to be black, and the rest needs to be all white. You flatten this to a single layer, and save it as a pict.
Then, drag the menu picture and button overlay into the DVDSP asset window, and start putting everything together. Make a Movie track and a Menu track in your project, drag the m2v and ac3 files from the assets to the movie track, making sure the ac3 files are in the order of your buttons selecting them in the menu (for simplicity's sake), and your main menu pic onto the menu track. then, double-click on the picture part of your menu track, and set up the settings in the inspector. Make sure all the layers are selected if you have a multi-layered psd for your picture asset. Set your overlay picture to your button overlay. Use simple overlay - Yes. Set the color you want the selected buttons to display (the black parts on the overlay pic will be this color), along with the opacity. You can leave the other stuff in the inspector alone. Then, on your menu pic in DVDSP, draw the rectangles where the buttons will be (you already start out with 1 button that you can move to where you want it). Select the buttons one at a time, and in the inspector, set the 'Selection Type' to 'track' if they're going to be selecting audio streams or playing the movie, or leave it if they're going to another menu screen. If you want to make audio track selections and play the movie, 'set audio stream to' the audio stream you want to select, and set 'jump when activated' to your movie track.
Now, select your movie track in the project window, and set the 'display mode' to 4:3 if you have a fullscreen video track (even if it has black bars on top and bottom for letterboxing), and '16:9 Pan-Scan' if you have widescreen video. The rest you can leave.
Now, click on the background of the project window, you can set the name of the DVD (though I don't think it actually does anything), set the 'Startup Action' to your menu, make the disk menu either 4:3 or 16:9 according to your preference, and you can set the remote control buttons to select the things you want. When you're all done, go to the 'Item' menu and choose 'Preview Disc', and run through your menu options, and make sure it looks and works ok. Synch might not be perfect in the previewing function, but that's normal. Once you're satisfied that everything is working ok, and you've fixed any problems, choose 'Build Disc' in the 'File' menu, and save it to your hard drive with enough space free. It will then mux the streams and prepare the DVD for you. Once it's done, you can use DVD Player to preview the DVD by choosing 'Open VIDEO_TS Folder' from its 'File' menu and navigating to the VIDEO_TS folder of the DVD you just built to your HD. If everything works OK, launch Toast, select 'DVD' in the 'Other' section, and drag the DVD folder you made with DVDSP onto Toast. It should show a disc with whatever name the folder had, containing two folders: VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. If this all checks out, you can change the name of the disc to whatever you want, put a blank DVD-R in your drive, and hit 'Record'. Enjoy your DVD!I like systems, their application excepted. (George Sand, translated from French), "J'aime beaucoup les systèmes, le cas d'application excepté." -
One thing I forgot is Chaptering:
When you've got the movie track made, and your video and audio assets added to it, you can double-click in the square portion of the movie track in the project window, where the video preview thumbnail shows up if you created one, and a new window pops up with the video, and a timeline below it. Add a new chapter, and move the marker in a bit on the timeline. I usually space markers about 1cm apart on the timeline. Keep adding them, until you have markers at regular intervals throughout the movie, making a new chapter, and moving the marker another centimeter, and so forth. Sometimes, DVDSP has problems with some video streams, where it won't let you set markers for it, and will refuse to build the disc. If that's the case, try running the BITS (timecode) and/or PulldownX tools mentioned above, and then importing the output from those utils into DVDSP and trying again.I like systems, their application excepted. (George Sand, translated from French), "J'aime beaucoup les systèmes, le cas d'application excepté."
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