Star wars Ep I - how are you converting it

[now3d]

Ive just ripped EPisode I and was just wondering if anyone has converted it yet to vcd/svcd, if so how did you do it (what program and settings) and what quality did you achieve?

[condone]

to the left there is a topic called "How To". under that there should be the "Convert" sectoin, click there and choose the type u wish to convert (ie DVD/VOB->SVCD, DVD/VOB->DivX/AVI etc) and follow the guides. thats what it is there for. another EXTREMELY Good and Useful site is doom9.org, i use both this site and doom9 in order to find the best techniques and tools for the job for quality.

[vitualis]

- DVD Decrypter.

For main movie:
- FlaskMPEG0.6prev1.1 subtitle fixed
- Panasonic MPEG Encoder plug-in
--> easy choice of video, audio and subtitle stream (SW:E1 uses subtitles on default for the alien language bits)

For menu component:
- DVD2AVI to extract the animated parts of the menu and for still images

- VCDImager + CDRWin for authoring and burning.

Quality: perfect (well, as good as standard VCD gets)

Regards.

[The VidKid]

How do you use DVDtoAVI to make a menu??
Can you use Nero to put together the menu+VCDmovie?

[vitualis]

I used DVD2AVI to open VTS_01_0.VOB (which is where all the menu screens are kept).

I used it to save to AVI short video clips (e.g., the opening animation which merges into the main menu, and the what I call "bridging animations" -- that is, those animations between individual screens -- between the main menu and the scene selection screen and between scene selection screens). I also used it to save some still bitmaps of the scene selection screens.

For the parts of the ripped menu destined as animated parts of the VCD menu, I performed some editing (with Adobe Premiere -- e.g., masking out those options not available to VCD like "audio options&quot and then encoded it to short standard VCD standard MPEG-1. I did this for the bridging animations as well.

For the menu screens destined as high resolution stills on the VCD (i.e., the scene selection screens), I used CD Motion (I could have use VCD Toolkit) to encode them to high resolution stills.

I authored the whole thing together with VCDImager, copying the layout of the original DVD as much as possible. This is only possible by manual editing of the XML (i.e., with a text editor) rather than using a GUI.

Regards.

[Binky]

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For main movie:
- FlaskMPEG0.6prev1.1 subtitle fixed
- Panasonic MPEG Encoder plug-in
--> easy choice of video, audio and subtitle stream (SW:E1 uses subtitles on default for the alien language bits)

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Can this method produce MPEG-2 or only MPEG-1?

[vitualis]

You can do MPEG-2 as well if you get a MPEG-2 plugin (the default bbMPEG plug-in can do mpeg2 but the quality or speed isn't great).

You can use the CCE plug-in with FlaskMPEG...

However, there are difficulties getting multipass encoding to work with FlaskMPEG (and indeed, you will need to get the XiS version of FlaskMPEG for multipass encoding).

I believe that most people would recommend using the DVD2AVI method for SVCDs.

Regards.

[hitechjunkie]

hey vitualis,

how much more time would u say u spend adding menus to your VCDs?

[vitualis]

For ordinary VCDs (i.e., a simple still menus for scene selection screens +/- animated menu for main menu), no more than 20-30 minutes additional time. I've done it so many times now that it is quite quick.

The XML authoring takes hardly any time at all. Most menus have fairly stereotypical structures and I just canabalised my past XML structures.

For those "special" VCDs where I spend more effort in the menu structure (as I did for SW:E1), it would have taken me 1 extra hour extracting, editing and encoding the MPEG clips and stills for the menus and the additional XML authoring required.

Regards.