Program to combine DVD's with cutting options

[clone_tk422]

Hi All,

Wondering if someone can please help.

I have two DVD's of footage. I would like to make it into one movie. For this to happen I would like to use mainly footage from DVD 1 but I would like to use some footage from DVD2 and re-cut it so I could insert sections from DVD2 into the DVD1 so I end up with one movie which is a combination of scenes from both DVD's

I have the two DVD's on Hard Drive as VOB files including AC3 soundtrack and two audio tracks for each so would like the final output to preserve these tracks.

I know there are posts here but there are about combining two DVD's together but so DVD1 is in full and then the DVD2 footage follows it but I cant see if the posts actually allow these programs to re-edit the DVD's to cut and paste footage from 2 DVD's into 1 which is what I want to do.

If anyone can please recommend if I can do this and best program without having to convert back to MPG first

Thanks

[guns1inger]

Nothing will do what you want nicely in a single program. To do what you want without using an actual editor, would be painful. Basically you would have to use something like DVD Shrink to cut the current discs into all the parts you want, then something else to bring them back together again in the right order. Why Shrink ? Because it is one of the few programs that can do this while working with multiple audio tracks. However you won't get frame accurate cutting unless you use an mpeg editor or a standard NLE and re-encode.

You might be able to bring everything back together in TDA 2. TDA 1.x doesn't support multiple audio tracks, so it's no good. You may also find that working this way will introduce digital noise at the audio edit points.

Basically, you will have to use a number of tools for jobs they aren't really designed for, simply to avoid doing it properly in the first place. I think it will be more hassle than it is worth.

[mats.hogberg]

Besides preserving the 2 audio tracks, it'd be a simple task for TDA. Don't know how well 2.0 works, but if it supports > 1 audio track, while maintaining all features from previous versions when it comes to cutting/joining, all you need is TDA 2. Done quite some jobs like this in v 1.6 (with just 1 audio track).

/Mats

[guns1inger]

Can you edit together non-sequential parts of two sources together in TDA ?

[mats.hogberg]

Just add the source(s) in the order you want them - add the same source multiple times if you want different parts of it at different points, then cut out the pieces you don't want.
If you have:
video 1 which consists of scenes ABC
video2 consisting of DEF
and you want a movie with the scene sequence EFABDC
Add video 2, cut out scene D
Add video 1, cut out scene C
Add video 2, cut out scene E-F
Add video 1, cut out scene A-B

/Mats

[guns1inger]

Basic like editing in Virtualdub then (which is why I use an NLE for editing)

[mats.hogberg]

Yes, it's not quite straight forward, but doable. And since TDA is so reliable (no sync errors, spontaneous crashes, or other surprises) not all that much work.

/Mats

[clone_tk422]

Thanks all for your help.

I was able to use dvd shrink to shrink each segment required to a seperate folder and then I was able to join them all together using TDA

I found the whole process very straight forward and easy and achieved the required result

Thanks all for your replies