Using Disk images to make DVD

[Ensign]

Using Nero I have made some DVDs (complete with menus) and have saved them on my hard drive as Images using the .NRG Suffix.

But now I want to combined them on to 1 DVD with a master menu leading to each Image File and its menu.

However, When I try to import them into Nero Vision using the "make DVD" or the "make movie" command Nero freezes.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there another way of doing what I want? Or is what I want to do impossible?

[Krispy Kritter]

Does Nero Vision accept disc images as import files? I would expect it to accept mpg/avi files, and possibly vob's. I wouldn't expect it to accept disc images.

My guess, would be that you will need to mount or burn your images, then extract the vob files.

[SCDVD]

Have you updated Nero to the latest rev.? The early rev's of Nero 7 had some serious bugs. It seems pretty clean now. You can download the latest rev. on nero.com. If you aren't at the latest rev., you shoud download it and try again after you install it.

[Ensign]

Have you updated Nero to the latest rev.?

YEs, According to the version numbers.

The early rev's of Nero 7 had some serious bugs

I do have trouble sometime with the preview function (the menu will play - but not the video) and I do also get that "Nero has cause a ..." pop-up

Does Nero Vision accept disc images as import files?

Nero Vision under Nero 6 did.

wouldn't expect it to accept disc images

Then what good is disc image for?

All I want is to make short full (with there own menus) DVD files then combind them onto 1 disk. And if disk image is not the way to go, then what? Burn them as "real" dvd to the hard drive and then use Nero Vision to combind them?[/quote]

[redwudz]

Image files are just containers to hold other files. A DVD video, which contains multiple files will fit into a single image file. If you want to work on the individual files, you generally need to extract them back to the original form. ISOBuster, for one, can do this. Then you can add several of the extracted DVD files into a program like TMPGEnc DVD Author to combine them to a new single DVD video.

Image files are not really good for temporary storage of video when you plan to modify it. They are a advantage for long storage or transport between drives, OS platforms or the internet. They also work well if you want multiple exact copies of a file. Burning with image files bypasses most burning program checks like in Nero. The Nero .nrg format is a modification of the standard ISO9660 file system for image files.

[kschang]

It appears that you have no idea what images really are.

Think of image files as... condensed soup with NO LABEL. You have to open it and add water and cook it to figure out what's in it. An image file is a container: you don't know what's inside until you either mount the image and read it using a virtual disc program, or you burn the image to a disc, and read that disc.

Thus, you can't really combine images together. You combine the CONTENT of the images, not the images themselves.

NeroVision is a content reader. I would be very surprised if it actually reads NRG (Nero Image files).

[guns1inger]

On top of that, you are talking about trying to combine the structure of multiple DVDs. There are only a few programs that can do this successfully without requiring a full re-author of the disc. DVD Remake Pro is probably the simplest. It will create a simple menu that allows you to pick disc one or disc two. I believe that if you try to add more discs, you get a hierachy of menus leading down the actual discs, but I haven't used it in a long time, so it may be smoother than that now.

[Ensign]

Thanks for the primer, and setting me on the correct path.

In the future, especially when making DVD slide shows, I'll "export" them out to a MPEG2 DVD file(s) and then Import them back into NERO useing the "make DVD video" command.

Then I'll make the menu (point to each slide show movie file) and finally burn them on the a DVD disk.

I was just trying to make life easy.

[mats.hogberg]

Nero is fine for burning data to disc. Not much else. Use a real authoring app to create your Video DVD, like TMPGenc DVD Author or DVD-Lab Pro. Free and good alternatives are GUI For DVDAuthor and DVDAuthorGUI.

/Mats

[jimmalenko]

I believe that if you try to add more discs, you get a hierachy of menus leading down the actual discs, but I haven't used it in a long time, so it may be smoother than that now.

Yep, it now caters for four projects to be merged at a time.