Newbie wanting to capture/re-author DVD from old and new sources...

[archaic0]

I just joined today and I'm finding some great information in the how-to section. I hope to make some progress this weekend on this project but wanted to make sure I'm on the right track.

I've found some how-to articles, one here: https://forum.videohelp.com/topic323286.html And I hope that starts me out right. I'll describe what I want to do and any input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

I own the Star Wars definitive Laser Discs (at least by my definition) and I also own the 2004 DVD release of the remastered versions. I'm fine with about 90% of the new versions, I only have a few problems and I want to correct them for MY personal copy of the films. Namely, things like cantina band, Han and Greedo, the wampa, degoba swamp monster spitting out R2 (audio only), and putting frickin eyesore Hayden into Jedi. Those things stick out to me and maybe a few other things. So I want to make a custom edit for my viewing pleasure.

For my Laser Discs, I'll have to capture the films to digitize them and don't have a program in mind just yet. I do have a capture card, but it's a creative TV wonder PRO and I'm not sure if it's up to the task... although since I'm only starting with composite video (S-Vid) does it matter much? So my concern here is whether I should invest in a better capture device even though my source is so low resolution? The second concern I have here is audio. The Laser Discs I have are Dolby Digital and I don't want to downgrade that to standard stereo. I have no experience in this part so maybe this is just a given, but I wanted to make sure I preserve the original sound encoding. If I can edit some parts of it and preserve the encoding other than those clips that would be great. (I don't have anything other than stereo clips to splice in)

Once I have the Laser Discs digitized, I want to insert this video/audio into digitized versions of the 2004 DVD remastered versions to produce MY edit of the films.

Ripping a DVD to VOB files I'm used to, but editing those files to splice in what I want is something new and maybe that how-to will be sufficient. Again, any pointers or suggestions would be great!

The end result is that I want to be able to produce a DVD with MY edit of the film on it for my library. I realize that the quality will vary for the older clips that I splice in, but I'm perfectly ok with that to preserve the original aspects that I prefer.

Again, thanks in advance and I look forward to working on this project.

[Baldrick]

Please change the subject so it better describes what you are doing. Just click on the edit button to change it.

[archaic0]

Better? I'm not sure what you want...

[Baldrick]

Much better.

For DVD VOB editing I recommend Mpeg Video Wizard. I let other users help you with the rest. .

[archaic0]

Thank you.

And I might add that if a choice comes down to free software and 10 custom steps with strange add-on scripts versus a single paid software... I'll buy something. I much prefer polished methods versus the old process I used to use for converting things (6 programs, two-pass, entire day just to get a DVD ripped, *sigh* those were the days)