DVD Re-Author with new subtitles

[brougham]

Hello,

This place is a wealth of information and a times can be sometimes overwhelming.

Because of this I ask of your help.

I have ripped the entire DVD to files on my drive. I have used Subrip to get my subtitle script and edited it.

I need to re-author the DVD with my new subtitle script. I don't care about keeping menus, It can be a movie only disk. If it's easier to keep menus fine.

I would like to know the best program workflow to achieve what i want. Good Quality Compression, with new subtitle script onto a 4.7 disk, menus optional.

Thanks,
Brougham

[SaSi]

I have done this a number of times and after trying different tools, I ended up with:

1. Decrypt the entire contents on disk.

2. Use DVD2One or DVDShrink to re-author the DVD so that it contains the main movie only. Set the programs not to do any compression as this is not what you want at this step. This step is to ensure that the main title is correctly extracted an the subtitles correctly timed against the beginning of the movie.

3. Use subrip to extract the subtitles from the "shrinked" DVD folder in an editable format.

4. Use SmartRipper to extract the video and audio streams in separate files.

5. Use Mainconcept to re-encode the .m2v file. (the reason I use Mainconcept is that it can happily read MPEG-2 source files. If you want to use Tmpgenc or CCE, you must first use rip the movie into a single VOB containing both video and audio and then open that with VirtualDUB to save as AVI. Too much hassle but it also works).

5. Edit the subtitle stream you want

6. Use MaestroSBT to render the subtitles

7. Use Scenarist or DVDMaestro or IFOEdit to re-author the DVD.

Regarding step 7, there is an excellent guide on how you can use IFOEdit to produce a VOB file with the video+audio+subtitles streams and then feed that to DVD-Lab to produce the final DVD.

Also, if you only want a movie, the only thing you need is IFOEdit.

The modified subtitles must be rendered in a format suitable for the authoring program (IFOEdit, Scenarist and DVDMaestro each need a different format for the subpictures and the script).

The above isn't a guide, just a proposed workflow as you said. Each step can be elaborated to an individual guide...