Create/edit menu on an allready finished dvd

[malisamson]

Hi I've searched long across this site but I havn't yet found a fair guide for creating a menu and then pasting it into a dvd project...
I have the following apps:

Ulead dvd workshop 2
Dvdremake
Dvd-lab Pro

Do I need more than these applications?
Anyway I would appriciate a guide telling how to do this

Cheers

[ricardouk]

im a newbie myself but couldnt you rip your dvd project to elementary streams and then load them up in dvd lab pro and then you can create a menu for it within dvd lab pro?

[guns1inger]

You cant easily just drop a new menu into an existing DVD. With a lot of effort you *might* get something like PGCEdit to do it, but the last poster described the quickest option for creating a new menu from scratch.

DVD Remake Pro can help change existing menus, kill buttons, reroute selections etc.

[malisamson]

Well thx for reply,
But here's what confused me: I've seen on many other theards explenations that are including an enourmous guide and anyway, if I do as you said wouldn't the quality fall slightly ?

[guns1inger]

If you aren't re-encoding or recompressing then quality shouldn't change. Maybe a better explaination of what you are doing will help. Is this a commercial disk, or a home made disk ? How was it authored to begin with ?

[malisamson]

I bought it on my evacation last week but realized that it had no menu. Anyway the movie is commercial but this loss of menu can mean that it's homemade eventhough the quality and everything else is in top :S

[ricardouk]

use dvd decrypter in ifo mode to demultiplex everything you have on the dvd and load then into dvd lab and create a new menu for it.

i think its the best solution to your problem.

YOU CAN EVEN EXPORT YOUR CHAPTER POINTS WHEN U USE DVD DECRYPTER that way u can importthem to dvd lab and have the same chapters as in youroriginal dvd

[malisamson]

Well thank you
there is just one(hopefully) problem now...and cause the subtitles I've ripped from the dvd can't get into dvd-lab

[ricardouk]

dvd lab acepts srt,ssa,son and sst subs.
if your sbs are not in this format try to convert them to one of this formats with subtitle workshop.

[malisamson]

Actually they are located in the dvd VTS_01 file...that's the problem and I don't know any way to rip it out from there

[malisamson]

Ah nevermind found it myself. You have to use SUBRIP and you will have to write every letter in the subtitle but after that it should go on flawless. (appro. 5minute completetime)
Anyway thx guys