Editing Sections of DVD's to a new DVD without losing quality & keeping

[notpinky]

I have searched, and followed SOME of the advice in the forums, but there are sooo many options, and I dont have a lot of time. I have been looking at videohelp for a year or so now, and you guys are the most knowledgable bunch out there!

I have a title sequence, that I have in Mpeg2, AVI, (create in ulead videostudio 11. I have a dvd, from which i want to snip sections out of, and put into a new dvd, with the title in the front. The source DVD is a NTSC, widescreen with 5.1 sound

I want to keep exactly the same quality, size, shape of the video and sound, as the video is originally not great quality, and it is being displayed on a cinema screen.

I have, TMPED DVD Author, vob2mpg, ulead videostudio 11plus and adobe premiere cs3, virtualdub, and am willing to use anyhting that will getthe job done.

I would REALLY REALLY appreciate ANY help/advice, even if someone pointed me to the guide/forum answer that will quickly solve my problem. As I need to have this all done, and burnt to play on a dvd play by friday!!

Thanks in advance!

[Richard_G]

A bit of a clumsy way of doing it, but why not use TDA to turn your title sequence into a DVD in it's own right, then use DVDShrink in Re-Author mode to combine the two? Provided the combined size is not too big to fit on a single disc, there will be no encoding done.

[Bjs]

Welcome notpinky

Talk about a tight request ... friday deadline .

5.1 audio ... well I wouldnt go just snipping it , than bashing it together ... you'll get pops and clicks doing that .

Your only method would be to demux the title with the 5.1 audio into seperate video and audio streams , and recompile the whole project by scratch in ulead videostudio 11 plus , and trim the unwanted out , which would prevent those previously mentioned audio problems out .

Not to forget the import of the mentioned extra you want to include .

The only problem will be just how big the project will become when it is created , ready to go to disc ... it may need a dl to cover it ... it that case you'd want verbatim dl and imgburn to carry out that phase .

Or if its just above 4.3gig , you could use dvdshrink to trim it back a touch via slight re-transcode .

I dont have ulead videostudio 11 plus ... mines mediastudio pro ... for hdv stuff ... but that wont help you .

So the fastest method would be to do as I mentioned above , or you dont get much choice if you want to keep that 5.1 audio . But if you dump it in favour of 2 channel ac3 , then I could help you through using more common freeware ... but friday would be pushing it ... can be done ... just very tight .

I could show you the "quick n ugly" method , but I wouldnt guarantee it to work without issues in most cases .

You had better pm me if you want to know anything else , that way you'll get my attention quicker .

[notpinky]

Hey, thanks for the response, It wont let me pm you, as I only just joined the forum, my email add is junkabl@hotmail.com or you can pm me.

Basically the title is all set to go as a project in ulead. im not bother about the sound on that.

the source dvd has a seperate track from the main movie, with the songs in the movie (its bollywood) each split out by chapter. Of the 10 songs there are two that i want to add after the title. hopefully there would be 3 chapters. one the title sequence, then the last two being each song.

I used tmpegauthor thing to extract mpeg2 with 5.1, and they wouldnt load in adobe premier so itried it in ulead at it works sort of except that the subtitle (which dont show in a normal play) show in the movie in ulead, and also the quality suffers a lot in the final iso it creates.

is the best quality out from a dvd going to be an uncompressed AVI or an mpeg? then whats the best program that will give me the nicest results when creating the dvd for me?

sorry if i sound really unclear!

thanks also guys for replying.