Editing/Replacing a Menu from Authored DVD

[onewaydown]

What is the easiest way to create a new menu for a dvd? Or perhaps another way of looking at it is how can I take the dvd vob/mpg, use it in another program and have the video not get reprocessed? I made a video from a dv camera, but I want to redo the crappy menu.

I've been playing around with Ulead DVD Workshop, and it seems pretty nice for making a menu, but I don't want to reprocess the video again and I can't tell if it does or doesn't. I had it "import" the dvd, which pretty much just rips the chapters into individual mpgs. I just don't want to waste the time/lose any quality from the original.

Any advice would be great! thx!

-edit-oops, perhaps this should have gone into the dvd to dvdr forum... even though it's dvdr to dvdr. =\

[jeanl]

TMPG DVD Author can import vob or mpeg files, so you can create a new DVD based on an "old" mpeg file and the processing time is fairly short (there's no recoding, just the time to rewrite the file in the target directory).
J.

[MackemX]

you could try using DVDauthorGUI and creating your own menu

you can then replace the original menu with the one you created leaving the original DVD intact