How can I take out bad scenes for children?

Rip it, edit in MPEG software. Reauthor.

You could do a quick & crude chop with DVD Shrink.
Just Re-author the main title, using the Set Start/End Frames feature. You'll have two titles & the transition won't be perfectly seamless, but it's quick & easy (and free).

DVD LabPro will let you "cut" out scenes by highlighing the start/end sections you don't want included. The original mpeg stays asis, but when the movie gets to the start point, it jumps immediately to the end point of your "cut" scene. Since the mpeg is never actually cut, video/audio sync shouldn't suffer any...


Keep in mind that a smart viewer would be able to rewind backwards to the "deleted" scene (if they knew it was there).

Drag only the main movie.

(If you were to drag "everything" over, the menus would not function correctly. They retain functionality only in Full Disc mode.)

Use the Start/End Frames feature to set the end frame to the moment before nudity.

Drag over the main movie again (below the first one you just trimmed).
Now use the Start/End Frames feature to set the start frame to the moment after nudity.

You should now have two titles which should play in succession.

Originally Posted by smearbrick1

Your friend "made" a movie with a sex scene in it? Is it a home movie? Interesting. Deviant, but interesting..

so your trying to censor a copy,an illegal copy you shouldnt own.if its got a sex scene then its been rated not for children.dont let them watch it,and go get a life,these dvd editor topics piss me right off.

interesting thread...

if it wasn't for a couple of scenes in Titanic, I would let my 13-year old watch it...

A company called ClearPlay either has, or shortly will have a dvd player that will do that automatically for you.

Maybe not for now, but in the future if your children are still young.

I've never condoned censorship, but hey just about ever tv station (as well as some cable/sat channels) have done it for ages, so why cant you?!


Kudos for asking the question, maybe it'll teach some of those stuffy hardliners out there that, (ahem, they have the right to backup their video blah blah blah, but feel that editing is wronging the makers.) If ya have the power to back, edit etc it should somewhat be your descreation (SP!) how its used in YOUR household...to an extent of course..

Sabro

Originally Posted by GeorgeW

interesting thread...

if it wasn't for a couple of scenes in Titanic, I would let my 13-year old watch it...

when the boat sank and 1000's of people died ?

no, no, no, when the old lady threw that priceless necklace back into the sea -- I almost cried

yea -- i might have chopped that out also ...

If you have TDA, just import the video into a project, then edit out the scene(s) there. TDA has an excellent editor (cutter).

My Sony DVD player has a button called 'search mode' that triggers a title # screen. There I can push up (arrow) or down (arrow) to navigate between titles. You also might be able to just use numbers, like pushing 1 or 2.

Originally Posted by Gurm

You could just be a good parent and not let your kids watch that illegally pirated R-rated film.

But no, you want to waste hours of your life in the pursuit of a solution you can never really get properly.

And in the end, your kids will be fucked up beyond belief. Go on, people have been ******* up their kids for generations.

The cheapest/fastest/best solution is to instruct your kids to shut their eyes and cover their ears during said scenes

But seriously, yeah you can cut the scene out, but if you want to retain all menus and extras as well, I think you'll have a battle on your hands. Off the top, you could probably keep all the extras if you re-author using TMPGEnc DVD Author, but you'd probably have to make your own menu for it.

Originally Posted by Gurm

You could just be a good parent and not let your kids watch that illegally pirated R-rated film.

But no, you want to waste hours of your life in the pursuit of a solution you can never really get properly.

And in the end, your kids will be fucked up beyond belief. Go on, people have been ******* up their kids for generations.

Gurm,you always bring a smile to my face.pmsl.

Originally Posted by jimmalenko

The cheapest/fastest/best solution is to instruct your kids to shut their eyes and cover their ears during said scenes

When I was little, my mom put here hands in front of my eyes, and/or told me to cover my ears. She probably would have used the MUTE button, had one existed back then.

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I remember a comment left by somebody in a thread like this long ago. It was amusing, so I'd like to repeat (paraphrase): "Can you tell me how to do this too! I want to remove everything but the fighting and sex scenes" :P

Covering your eyes doesn't work!!!

I remember seeing Jaws in the theater when I was 5 and I knew something bad was going to happen when Hooper when in the water. So I covered my eyes and when it sounded like nothing was happening, the head came out of the hole in the boat!!!! Scarred for Life!!! :P

There's something wrong with a society when it's more accepted to show 2 people punching their faces out, but not showing 2 people in love. Unless you're showing them Basic Instinct, then that's just wrong...kinky, but wrong :P

its kind of interesting that people think movies have that much of an effect on children.. its like trying to get pee out of a swimming pool, you can try as hard as you want, but its just not gonna happen.. if your kids becomes a sex maniac from watching a movie with nudity, or a serial killer from watching a violent movie then i seriously doubt it was the movie that caused that to happen to him/her.. there had to be something going on in their life that caused it, probably caused by bad parenting..