DVD menu Text Editing HELP!!

[GSchept180]

Hi, my friend recently gave me a dvd he made for his girlfriend for her birthday. I am going to give this DVD to my girlfriend for her birthday as well which is coming up soon. On the DVD menu he wrote Happy Birthday Sarah, (which is his girlfriend's name) but I want to change the menu so instead of saying Happy Birthday Sarah it will say Happy Birthday Debbie (my girlfriend's name). So is this possible? Basically what I want to do is to edit the text of a dvd menu and then make a new copy with my edited text on the DVD menu. So could you guys help me out, is there a program I need to buy because I'll do anything to get this done easily and quickly. Also if you guys dont already know, I am very new to editing dvds and have never done anything like this before so any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[ofbarea]

I do not think it will be simple to change the name in the menu.

But with TMPGEnc DVD Author you can inport the video of your friend DVD and you can create a new menu by using the templates very quickly.

[GSchept180]

I do not think it will be simple to change the name in the menu.

But with TMPGEnc DVD Author you can inport the video of your friend DVD and you can create a new menu by using the templates very quickly.

I want the EXACT SAME MENU I dont want to change it all I want is to change the name nothing else. It cant be that hard. Someone must know how to do it

[canadateck]

Not as easy as you may want to think. Only way would be Rip the Menu Video,(If it's a Motion Menu) and edit out the name and Replace with "Debbie" Use somthing Like Sony Vegas,. If not a Motion Menu Try Taking a Screen cap of the menu and Open it in Paint Shop and do the same thing.

Whatever way you look at it you will have to Re-Author.

[guns1inger]

It depends on how the disc was designed. You could look at menuedit, which might work if the text is a subpicture. If it is embedded in the menu image then it is much harder. You will have to extract the image, manipulate it in photoshop or similar, then put it back in.

Other tools to look at that might help include ifoedit, numenu4u, pgcedit or DVD Remale Pro.

All of this would be a lot more effort that either creating a new menu, or asking your friend to create a custom one for you.

[manono]

Hi-

This will definitely do what you want. It's a bit complex, but not very hard. I've used that guide over a dozen times:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=555936#post555936

You'll have to extract the original menu screen as a BMP and then edit it in a picture editor to change the name.

I've ssen mention of another way to replace the edited BMP, using DVD Shrink, but for the life of me I can't find it now. Maybe the guy will see your thread.

[GSchept180]

Alright guys, I'm going to forget about that Birthday dvd but I have basically the exact same dvd question. On a dvd that was made for me, my friend entered my email address wrong at the bottom of the menu. It says "This dvd is supplied by.......@yahoo.com........" That was my old email address which I deleted but now I want to add my current email address which is with AOL. So I think this is the exact same question I had before about how do I change the text of this DVD menu. Also let me tell you that in this dvd menu there is a video playing in each of the little boxes on the menu. I have provided a screen shot of the dvd menu so you can see for yourselves. The boxes labeled part 1, 2, 3.... on the dvd menu have short video clips playing in each of the boxes. Also there is theme music playing in the menu. So I think this is a very complex DVD menu and all I want to do is to keep the menu but change the text so people will know my real email adress. So any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[guns1inger]

If the text is part of the video (and I suspect it is) then you have to demux the video, load it into something like Vegas/Premiere/After effects/Wax2, copy a section of the green background over the old address, put the new address on top, hopefully matching the fonts, re-encde the video back to mpeg2, then mux it back into the menu.

Or create new menus.

What you are asking is not as simple as you wish it was, and no amount of protesting on your part will change that.

[GSchept180]

If the text is part of the video (and I suspect it is) then you have to demux the video, load it into something like Vegas/Premiere/After effects/Wax2, copy a section of the green background over the old address, put the new address on top, hopefully matching the fonts, re-encde the video back to mpeg2, then mux it back into the menu.

Or create new menus.

What you are asking is not as simple as you wish it was, and no amount of protesting on your part will change that.

Alright so if this is the way to do it, as I have never done anything like this before, would you be able to provide like a step by step guide or something because I really have no iea what you are talking about. Thanks for the help

[manono]

This would be an interesting project if I had to do something like it. I'd do it using AviSynth and create a Picture-In-Picture effect using the Layer command. I'd save a BMP of the menu, crop it down to a BMP of the very bottom part, below the animated boxes. Then I'd take that small bottom part, clone in the green grassy stuff and change the e-mail address. Then stick that on top of the original menu, down at the bottom, and reencode. Something like this:

Menu=MPEG2Source("C:\Path\To\Menu.d2v")
PIP=ImageSource("C:\Path\To\EMail.BMP)
Layer(Menu,PIP,"add",255,xx,yy)#where xx,yy,are the pixel locations for the PIP

http://www.avisynth.org/Layer

But since I don't guess that GSchept180 knows any AviSynth, or much of anything related to doing this project, I don't think I'll ever see how it turns out.

[GSchept180]

This would be an interesting project if I had to do something like it. I'd do it using AviSynth and create a Picture-In-Picture effect using the Layer command. I'd save a BMP of the menu, crop it down to a BMP of the very bottom part, below the animated boxes. Then I'd take that small bottom part, clone in the green grassy stuff and change the e-mail address. Then stick that on top of the original menu, down at the bottom, and reencode. Something like this:

Menu=MPEG2Source("C:\Path\To\Menu.d2v")
PIP=ImageSource("C:\Path\To\EMail.BMP)
Layer(Menu,PIP,"add",255,xx,yy)#where xx,yy,are the pixel locations for the PIP

http://www.avisynth.org/Layer

But since I don't guess that GSchept180 knows any AviSynth, or much of anything related to doing this project, I don't think I'll ever see how it turns out.

First of all where is the layer command because I downloaded AviSynth but I dont see like a program to launch or anything like that. So if you could provide me with a step by step detailed guide I would much appreciate it. Thanks

[GSchept180]

If the text is part of the video (and I suspect it is) then you have to demux the video, load it into something like Vegas/Premiere/After effects/Wax2, copy a section of the green background over the old address, put the new address on top, hopefully matching the fonts, re-encde the video back to mpeg2, then mux it back into the menu.

Or create new menus.

What you are asking is not as simple as you wish it was, and no amount of protesting on your part will change that.

Hey, would you mind posting some more detailed info like a step by step guide or something I am downloading sony vegas as we speak. Thanks for the help but since I am so new I dont really understand any of the terms you used. So if you wouldnt mind helping me I would be very grateful.

[guns1inger]

As I said earlier, it is not a simple process, especially if you haven't done any editing before. I don't have the time at the moment to even start to write a guide on doing something like this. It would be far quicker for you to just reauthor the disc with a new menu.

[GSchept180]

EVERYONE I HAVE SONY VEGAS so if you guys could give me a step by step guide how to edit the text in the dvd menu I will get off your backs, but I really want to complete this ASAP. Thanks!

[GSchept180]

As I said earlier, it is not a simple process, especially if you haven't done any editing before. I don't have the time at the moment to even start to write a guide on doing something like this. It would be far quicker for you to just reauthor the disc with a new menu.

Alright well thanks for trying but if anyone else can help me out, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks

[guns1inger]

You need to search for guides that do parts of what you need, then build up the whole picture yourself. There are guides out there (either in the guides section or the guides forum) that will tell you how to extract video from menus. There will ones that tell you how to put things back into the DVD structures.

As for Vegas, once you have the video, you need to put two copies of it on two timelines. The top copy you need to look at masking and track motion to mask off a small section big enough to hide the old email address. The best area is probably the bit above Season 5. Once you have it masks you need to move it over the old email address. When you have is covered and you are happy with how it looks, create a new video track at the top of the stack and use a text generator to add the new email address in place. Render as mpeg2 video for DVD.

The help files/manual contains the details on masking and track motion that you will need to know.

I would still suggest that if you get this far, re-authoring will be simpler than trying to get the video back in play. (If you had just re-authored in the first place, you would be finished by now)

[manono]

First of all where is the layer command because I downloaded AviSynth but I dont see like a program to launch or anything like that. So if you could provide me with a step by step detailed guide I would much appreciate it. Thanks

AviSynth is a text based frameserving/editing/filtering program. Those three lines I gave above are typical of how it's used. You test the scripts out in VDub, or in a software player that accepts AviSynth scripts, before sending it off to the encoder. You'd have to, for example, get the x/y coordinates just right when adding in the PIP. But you'd also have to know how to demux and separate menus, select the one to be edited, save a BMP, edit it in a picture editor to change the e-mail address, run that script through an encoder, replace the old menu screen with the newly reencoded one, put the menu back together again, and replace it in the DVD. None of these things is exactly hard, but they aren't the kinds of things a rookie would know. As guns1inger says, the project is not really a simple one, whether you do it with AviSynth or with Vegas. Having these programs installed doesn't make you able to use them. I think you've bitten off more than you can chew. If your friend can't do it for you, then I'd suggest, as guns1inger already did, that you reauthor, creating a much simpler menu for your project from scratch.

Just about everything you'd ever need to know about AviSynth is found at www.avisynth.org. Vegas might be slightly easier for you, as you can see what you're doing as you do it.

[GSchept180]

Someone told me to use DVD Remake but I am still having problems with it. Here is what they said to me

"Easily done with DvdReMake Pro: Customize menu background. In step 2, use any graphic editor, like Photoshop, to erase the text and add in your text, then save the menu background as 24-bit BMP (OS/2 format)."

when I do this, I edit the background and then when I try to load the dummy DVD, all I get is a blank screen as seen in this picture.

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[GSchept180]

Here is what I edited and saved it as a .bmp but I dont get it, I did everything correct in this guide http://www.dimadsoft.com/dvdremakepro/ht_customize_menu_background.php but I must be doing something wrong because when I try to "replace with still" it doesnt work. So please any help would be appreciated. [/url]

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[hech54]

I think you should have listened to this guy:

If you had just re-authored in the first place, you would be finished by now

My wife wanted me to create an "audio only" DVD of her favorite singer. First I created the DVD in TDA so I'd have some idea of where the buttons would be....then I found a nice picture and created a menu page background image in Microsoft Image Composer....keeping in mind where the buttons/boxes would be.



Stop mucking about and do it the right way.

[GSchept180]

[quote="hech54"]I think you should have listened to this guy:

If you had just re-authored in the first place, you would be finished by now

I HAVE NEVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS so I dont know how to reauthor or anything. If you guys could tell me what to do or the eastest way to create a new menu if it comes to that I would be so thankful

[manono]

When you play your "Dummy DVD" that you created in Muxman, do you see the menu pic, or a black screen?

Of course, now you've simplified your requirements. Before you said you wanted to keep the animated menu, changing only the E-Mail address. Now you're converting to a still menu. Smart move, though.

[GSchept180]

Hey I think I've solved my problem and I think that the Still menu is a lot better because I dont think I would have ever gotten this project completed if I kept the animated menu. Nevertheless, DVDremake was easy to use and you guys helped me out a lot. Thanks so much

[guns1inger]

hech - I am so sorry about your wife forced you to do that

[hech54]

hech - I am so sorry about your wife forced you to do that

I'm actually big Farnham fan too.
How he sings is brilliant....just the songs he chooses
to sing are....well...OK at best.

[GSchept180]

Alright I got another problem guys! When I load the dvd I created with the new menu into my home dvd player, I cant select the part. I am unable to select a part as seen in this image. The curosr/highlighted thing to select a part of the dvd is not available. Nothing lights up/is highlighted when I move over the part number with my dvd remote control. However when I play the dvd on my computer, I am able to select the part I want with my mouse. But more importantly why cant I select any part of my dvd that I want to play on my home dvd player. I made a new menu with dvd remake and it seemed perfect, I added my email address and everything and now I cant even watch it on my home dvd player. So can anyone help?

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