Authoring a DVD using clips from another DVD

[jrlouie]

I have dubbed our home VHS tapes onto DVD using a stand-alone Sony DVD recorder. Now I want to author new DVDs by cutting and pasting clips from one or more of the 2 hour dubs. What is the easiest way to extract a clip of an event from a DVD or combine clips of an event from 2 DVDs, give each clip a track title, and burn a more useful DVD, without re-encoding the video and/or loosing audio sync? My understanding is that I have to copy each .vob file, change them to .mpg, join them using something like Womble mpeg vcr, then extract the clips using Womble or TMPGenc, and finally do the authoring and burning using TMPGenc DVD Author.

[jimmalenko]

If you want menus, just load the DVDs separately into TMPGEnc DVD Author using the Add DVD Video button, then use the chapter edit cut section to select your start and end points.

If you don't care for menus, then DVDShrink in reauthor mode and again using it's start/end feature could be the way to go.

[jrlouie]

Sorry, I am very new at this and have not used TMPGEnc DVD Author. Do you mean I can just bring the entire clip from one or two DVDs directly into the program from the DVD's, cut and or splice sections, put track titles for each clip, and burn? (I need a detailed guide.)

The TMPGEnc guide on cut/join indicates that the program typically crashes for these functions. Perhaps the guide is out of date.

Thanks for any help.

[jimmalenko]

Sorry, I am very new at this and have not used TMPGEnc DVD Author. Do you mean I can just bring the entire clip from one or two DVDs directly into the program from the DVD's, cut and or splice sections, put track titles for each clip, and burn? (I need a detailed guide.)

Yep, that's it.


Here's 3 different guides (all found in the guides section to your left) that tell you how to do it:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/198813.php

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/tmpg-dvdauthor.htm
http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/view/53/59/

The top one is exactly what you need to do, the other two go through using the Add Files button, but it is exactly the same process from then on if you use the Add DVD Video button.

The TMPGEnc guide on cut/join indicates that the program typically crashes for these functions. Perhaps the guide is out of date.

It's never crashed for me, so I can't really comment on that.

[jrlouie]

Thanks. I will get the program. Hopefully it works as well as you say.

The DVD seems to play inconsistantly. It plays fine on the burner and an APEX DVD player. On a Polaroid DVD player and Windows Mediaplayer on a newer Sony Viao XP machine it has glithches (hesitations). I'm hoping the reauthored video will be more consistant, but I guess that is for a different forum.

Thanks again.

[jrlouie]

I did not see anything in the guides about joining 2 DVD clips using TDA. Would their MPEG editor program be a good choice for this?

[jimmalenko]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/198813.php

1. Click on Add new track
2. Add the DVD Video for the other DVD video clip
3. You can rename all tracks so you know what they are
Repeat these steps for all video clips.

That pretty clearly states to repeat for all video clips

If there's two clips you want to join together, put them in the same track and TDA will do the rest.

RTFM

[jrlouie]

Perhaps its the teminology that is confusing me. It was clear that I could add clips as separate tracks. What is not clear is that 2 or more clips can be combined into one continuous clip in the same track.

Apparently TDA combines clips that are put on the same track.

Hopefully my last question. Their mpeg editor shows that it can edit between frames regardless of the GOP and only reencode the 2 frames on either side of the cut. Does TDA allow the the same type of editing?

[lordsmurf]

TDA is I-frame based, not frame precise. So, no.