Several DVD's onto 1 Disk ?

[Roz]

Greetings

I have created several Quiz DVD's each made up from 30 - 40 short (30 second) movie clips with 50+ menus which display multiple choice answers with links to correct/wrong splash screens. As you can imagine the DVD strucure is long and complex but after many hours work the DVD's have been created and they all play perfectly.

My problem is that each Quiz is only about 800meg and I would like to merge these onto one DVD with an intro menu to select which Quiz to play.

I know DVDremake pro can merge 2 DVD's and preserve all the original menus etc but I am not sure whether this will work for several DVD's.
Does anyone know of a tool that could do this or even if it is possible?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Steve

[Bodyslide]

I have used TMPGEnc DVD Author to add multiple DVD's onto one disk. Do a search and you should see a few guides. Also welcome to the forums.

[Roz]

Thanks for the reply Bodyslide and also the warm welcome!

I struggled to get to grips with TMPGEnc in the past but I'll trawl the forums to see if there is guide or something that may point me in the right direction.

Cheers

Steve

[jeanl]

Don't confuse TMPGEnc (the encoder) with TMPGEnc DVD Author (the authoring program), which is very easy to use in my opinion...
Jeanl

[Roz]

Thankyou Jeanl for your post.

Yes I agree TMPGEnc Author is straightforward and I could see this working easily if I was starting from scratch with say 3 or 4 movie clips or even more and then creating a simple menu to play them.

But as per my original post I have already done the hard work in creating the DVD's and need some way of merging them on to one disk. Bear in mind each DVD is about 800 meg and so 5 of them will contain over 200 movie clips and 200 menus so I am not looking to reuthor completely!

I'm basically looking for a way to merge 5 completed DVD's and create one new menu and put them on one disk.

Any further help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Steve

[guns1inger]

DVD Remake Pro - look up the guides for this, as there is one for merging disks.

[jimmalenko]

I was thinking DVD Remake Pro yesterday, but was a bit apprehensive about whether it can only merge 2 discs together (I believe the new version has a simple menu option now for this) or if it can merge n discs together, creating the first menu with a selection to each DVD. Dimad, are you out theeeeeeere ???

[Roz]

Yes DVD Remake Pro can only merge 2 DVD's so I think the best I could do is merge 2 DVD's twice and then merge the 2 created DVD's to get 4 originals on on 1 disk.

Unless anybody can think of something better!

Steve

[jimmalenko]

Yes DVD Remake Pro can only merge 2 DVD's so I think the best I could do is merge 2 DVD's twice and then merge the 2 created DVD's to get 4 originals on on 1 disk.

Unless anybody can think of something better!

I thought of that, but if you think about it for a little bit longer, you'll realise that this will create a menu of two choices, each leading to a menu with two choices, instead of one menu with four choices.

[Roz]

Yes I agree Jimmalenko and it would look a bit amateurish too!

Still, it might be the only simple solution that is available.

I'll email DVD Remake Pro and suggest that on their next release they consider expanding it to more that merge 2 DVD's.

Thanks for your input.

Steve

[jimmalenko]

Yes I agree Jimmalenko and it would look a bit amateurish too!

Still, it might be the only simple solution that is available.

I'll email DVD Remake Pro and suggest that on their next release they consider expanding it to more that merge 2 DVD's.

Thanks for your input.

No problems, mate

Dimad (the creator of the software) is a member here and at Doom9, so it might pay to try PMing him as well.

[dimad]

Merging more then two disks will be implemented in one of the next releases.

But it is fairly straightforard to do it manually:
http://cdr-zone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1214&p=6803#6803

Especially taking into account that you most probably would like to replace default menu anyway ( http://www.dimadsoft.com/dvdremakepro/ht_customize_menu.php ).

To have more "pro like" look for your merged disk.

[jimmalenko]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1142524#1142524

stiltman managed to join 3, and replaced the menu with his own. Might be worth a look

[Roz]

Thanks Jim and Dimad for all your help and input.

I'm working on it!

steve

[jimmalenko]

Thanks Jim and Dimad for all your help and input.

I'm working on it!

steve

No worries

Good luck !

[MackemX]

is this the same thread yet again? . What's with all these joining posts appearing . I think you can join as many as you want in one project as long as you make a note of the new first play's for each DVD

I just posted a method HERE that may work. I don't know if you need to join 2 DVD's then join the 3rd onto those. I think you can do it all in one go doin something below

import each DVD as 3 separate projects, strip whatever and save them (saves you stripping again if anything goes wrong )

load the 3 projects again and join 1 onto 2 and it will be called project 4 as you should have 3 open. Make a note of which PGC in the Video Manager menu is now shown as the title menu. This contains the links to the 1st and 2nd DVD's first plays in the button commands

now join project 4 (which is 1&2 DVD's joined) with project 3. You should now have a project 5 which is the 3 projects you had initially all in one project

finally before processing you would need to replace the newest title menu with one you created that has 3 buttons and update the buttons to point to the correct PGC's. I normally use GUI for DVDAuthor as it's ideal for quick menu's

the 3 button commands are the 2 button commands from the 1st title menu when you first joined. The 3rd button command is button 2 from the 2nd title menu after the 2nd join. You can also blank out the 1st title menu that appeared as it's now obsolete

I haven't explained it well but hopefully people can understand it

[MackemX]

Merging more then two disks will be implemented in one of the next releases.

But it is fairly straightforard to do it manually:
http://cdr-zone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1214&p=6803#6803)

my method is different to the one you linked to but would mine work or what is wrong with it if it won't?

I think I have spotted a mistake but I'm not sure. I reckon it can all be done even easier if you make a note of the PGC's for each DVD. The only thing you should really need to change are the commands in the final title menu