Anyone else rip to "clean" a movie for the kids?

[chaseru]

About the only time I rip a DVD is to remove either bad language or scenes so that I'm comfortable letting my kids watch an otherwise good movie.

I've done this to E.T. and Iron Giant to get rid of the bad language. I used a subtitle ripper and its OCR to extract the dialogue and search for bad language. I then edited the audio tract. I was just going to edit "penis breath" from E.T. but searching the subtitles I found 14 other cus words I removed.

Also, I did this to Pearl Harbor since a relative is portrayed in the movie. This movie isn't that long if you get rid of the love story.

Has anyone put a guide together to do this? My experience is that the current guides are designed to simply copy err "backup" the DVD and if you wish to substantially edit the movie you can't use some guides or you have to add a number of additional steps. I may put a guide together myself if there is interest. I just don't want to duplicate something that is already out there.

[Budmo]

I just did this with The Princess Bride. My kids love the movie but my four-year old can't handle the "RUS" scene. I also edited out a couple expletives.

Now, I haven't tried this with output back to DVD-R... I was just doing this to create a Windows Media encoded movie to playback on my computer, so some steps will need to be added for DVD-R.

Can't take time to do a guide, but this is what I did, at least from memory:

1. Rip the DVD using SmartRipper.
2. Create VFAPI virtual AVI by saving project. I did a forceFILM setting to get rid of telecine. Depending on your DVD player's capabilities, you may want to keep the ripped VOB's in NTSC or PAL.
3. Convert AC3 audio to WAV by using GraphEdit.
3.5. (optional, I suppose) I "muxed" the virtual AVI and WAV together in VirtualDub by opening the AVI and setting the audio to the WAV file. Then I wound up cropping the video, changed the gamma settings.
4. Open the virtual AVI and waveform in Vegas Video or Premiere. Edit to your heart's content.
5. Output to AVI or whatever.

If you're going to output back to DVD-R, I suppose you would want to keep your frame rate and frame size (720x480 for NTSC) and edit the virtual AVI. Then frameserve out of Premiere to your MPEG-2 encoder. Haven't tried this yet, but it should work.