Is it possible to extract menu from dvd and use it for new dvd?

[J-E-T-S]

I want to ask if it's possible to extract a dvd menu from a dvd and use that menu to author a new dvd? It's a motion menu and I hope to be able to make the buttons point to the titles in the new dvd. Anything like that has ever been done?

[manono]

I want to ask if it's possible to extract a dvd menu from a dvd and use that menu to author a new dvd?...Anything like that has ever been done?

Yes, and yes. I'm not quite sure exactly you have in mind, though. One way is to open a DVD in PGCEdit, and then Import this menu of yours. Then you can go to work remapping the nav commands. Sometimes not much has to be done, and other times quite a bit has to be done.

Another way is to just replace parts of a menu with, for example, the motion video of your menu. Something like that can be accomplished by following my guide here:

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1606732#1606732

Be careful about the Sub Pics, though, the SUP files. They may no longer be appropriate after you've replaced the background menu.

And another way might be to build the DVD from scratch, also using PGCEdit. First make a "New DVD", followed by "Import VTST Titles", followed by "Import Menu". Then you could go to work modifying the Button and Nav Commands to suit your needs

[J-E-T-S]

Yes, and yes. I'm not quite sure exactly you have in mind, though. One way is to open a DVD in PGCEdit, and then Import this menu of yours. Then you can go to work remapping the nav commands. Sometimes not much has to be done, and other times quite a bit has to be done.

manono,

This is my situation. I have a dvd with 4 episodes of the same tv series on it. Each episode begins and ends with a song. I want to cut out these parts and put the edited episodes on a new dvd, but I also want to use the original menu. What I don't know how to do is how to make the original menu work with the newly authored dvd, and I don't know how to remap the buttons on the menu to point to the various episodes. I want to leave the menu the way it is. I just want the buttons on this menu to point to the right places on this new dvd. Makes sense? Any guide for that?

[manono]

Oh, so that's what you wanted. I thought you wanted to do something hard. Yeah, here's a guide:

http://dvdguides.netgeekhosting.com/guides/blanking/

You want the cell blanking part at the bottom. Open the original DVD in VobBlanker. Depending on how the episodes are laid out, click on them in the top half, making them appear in the bottom half, highlighting them in the bottom half, followed by clicking on "Cells" along the right. In the new screen that opens, you'll see your episode or episodes laid out by cells. Find the ones that correspond to your opening and ending songs by using the Prev/Cut Button along the right. Then "Blank" them out. If you plan on keeping the next episode Preview, and it doesn't have its own cell, then rather than Blanking, you cut in the Prev/Cut area. Once you've done that to all your episodes (and maybe any other warnings, logos, previews, extras, etc., you might not want to keep), give it an "Output Folder" and "Process".

Then open the resulting DVD in PGCEdit, right-click on the menus that have the buttons for the parts you blanked and hit "Menu Buttons". In the new screen, right-click on the buttons for the parts you blanked and Hide Button->Jump To Non-Deleted Button. The idea is to prevent you from being able to click on the stuff you deleted. "Okay" followed by "Close" to get back to the main screen, Save and Test.

This will give you a perfectly working DVD, all menus and buttons (the ones you don't hide, anyway) and nav commands intact.

I might just add that I and many others don't much approve of doing this to a DVD. I'd sooner reencode something than chop up a perfectly good episode. Especially when it's so easy to hit "Next" on the remote control to skip over something you don't want to watch.