Cross Platform Development

Duftopia wrote on 6/7/2006, 9:05 AM
I am trying to take some of my home movies burned in "open-dvd" format using a Sony product called Click-to-DVD and combine them on new DUal Layer DVD's.

All I want to do is make menus that point to the FULL menus and startups and possibly the intros to the movies I created.

I bought the SONY vega/dvd studio to do this, anyyone know how this can be accomplished?

Comments

ScottW wrote on 6/7/2006, 11:53 AM
DVDs contain very complex structures and what you are attempting to do is impossible without knowing intimately how your DVD is laid out internally.

Vegas Movie Studio and DVAS are certainly not the appropriate tools to attempt this - I'm not even sure I'd want to try it with DVD Lab Pro.

My suggestion would be to focus on extracting the existing video and audio content from the DVDs and then completely re-author your new DVD. I'd probably use something like VobBlanker to extract the audio/video streams into the files that I'd use for re-authoring. Now, depending on how your audio was encoded, you may or may not be able to use thes files directly in DVDAS. If the audio is AC3 you'll probably have to demultiplex the audio and video (using TMPGenc's Mpeg Tools) and then use BeSweet to convert the AC3 to WAV.

Or, you could use DVD Lab (or DVD Lab Pro) who would demltiplex the files you you and then would let you use the AC3 file directly in your new project.

--Scott
Duftopia wrote on 6/8/2006, 6:46 PM
Oh darn, I have a half dozen programs and I can't get them to do what I want.

I do have 1 or 2 programs that claim they can do it, and I was able to mpeg the .vob files but I lose the menus.

PLUS what ever happen to that open-dvd structure that Sony boasts about, the clock-to-dvd creates it so that you can further (supposedy) modify it in the future.

Thanks for the help, I will try something else.

Duf
bStro wrote on 6/9/2006, 7:58 AM
PLUS what ever happen to that open-dvd structure that Sony boasts about, the clock-to-dvd creates it so that you can further (supposedy) modify it in the future.

I'm not familiar with that particular "structure " (open-dvd), and I've never used Click-to-DVD, but based on how you describe it, that sort of feature is only relevant within a single authoring application. For example, DVD Architect has something called "Smart Prepare" -- it lets you alter a project that you've already prepared, but without having to re-prepare the entire thing; it only does the parts you've changed.

Each application has its own proprietary way of accomplishing this, and such a feature is generally only useable in that application.

Rob