Experts Help, Making 1 Disc LOTR.EE

[Vegeta_RVPPC]

I bought this and have a son that watches it everyday, and the discs are starting to get some nasty nicks. I wanna make a one-disc copy so he can watch and do whatever kids do to ruin dads favorite discs.

This also gives me a project to work on. I want to keep the original menu and the ac3 audio track and subtitles for the elvish. I wanna downsample with CCE Lite or TMPGE. Can anyone help me. I have tried everymethod in the world so far and can't get it to work. I know the quality is gonna be half as good as the original, but its more of a challenge now to me. I have the 2 disc ripped to my hd in full iso mode. Thanks in advance for anyone who would help me. I know we got some incredible sources and builders who visit this forum and hope someone takes to time to try to help me with this.

[Vegeta_RVPPC]

Nobody can help me? I would appreciate any assistance.

[Savant]

I think most people are eating turkey in the US, perhaps thats why replies haven't been brisk.

If you want to keep the menus then your best bet is to do a simple backup instead of trying to reauthor the whole thing. I've read of people who have tried to do the two DVD on one thing and it won't work if you want to keep the menus.

I'd suggest using DVD Skrink and that way you can compress the content to fit on one DVD with all the menus etc. If you want the second disc, do the same. Yeah it still means two discs, but less hassle. These are DVD-9 (dual layer) discs right? If so you'll need to do some serious compression to get 1 dual-layer DVD to DVD-R anyway.

If you want to combine the two discs on one, it will mean reauthoring it, and that means new menus. You'll have to decide what is more important to you.

Regards,

Savant

[Thunder In Paradise]

I agree with Savant, DVD Shrink can't be beaten for ripping and transcoding movies. I myself have backed up this movie, using 2 DVD-R's, instead of trying to squeeze both discs onto one DVD-R since that would ruin the quality. Yeah, just keep the movie, Dolby 5.1, and KEEP the subtitles, EXCEPT "director's comments", drop those since those are the annoying titles that appear at the top of the screen during the commentary audio tracks that tell you whose speaking.

[fslove]

This is a 3h 40m film! Trying to cram this on one DVD is useless. You may as well do a SVCD then. Even the studio w/dual layer DVD's made the smart decision to spread this accross two DVD's and I would highly recommend you to the studios example and do the same.