Hi everybody - after a bloody war with Pinnacle, I'm glad I finally found relative paradise in this product!
I have been searching the forum and have had no luck working out a couple knots:
I have some other home-made DVDs that I need to rework for new menus, edits, mixes, etc... onto new DVDs (yes, I know that bringing in MPEGs from already-burnt DVDs is not recommended - in this case, however, it's unavoidable).
I have been using the fine freeware "DVD Decrypter" to rip the DVD in IFO mode, enabling the stream processing to successfully demux the video into M2V files and the audio into MP2 or AC3 (depending on how they were originally encoded - If the original disc was encoded as MP2, of course, all I would need to do is rename the VOB extension to MPG and I'm on my merry way - it imports fine.)
I have already jumped the AC3 --> MP2 hurdle by using a fine freeware utility called "HeadAC3he" and the resultant audio file, whether it's a WAV, MP2, MP3, etc... imports into MS without a problem.
The problem I have is with the M2V files that are generated. In most cases, a full disc will have 4 files, 3 at 1Gb, 1 at less than a Gb. I seem to have no problem with files 2 through 4 (so it's not a size issue), but the FIRST file in the sequence will not ever load! My gut response is that some kind of header was originally encoded at the beginning and it causes MS to fail the import. If this is the case, I'm clueless about what to do next. If there is some obscure setting that I could toggle in DVD Decrypter that would fix it, I would love to know, but the fine folks in that forum don't seem to know why the file plays OK with a RealOne Player - if MS doesn't load it, then it's a problem with MS.
Unfortunately, I'm inclined to agree.
Anybody know how I can edit previously-made DVDs if the method above is futile (or downright deadly and foolhardy in every respect)?
On my knees,
Cheepnis
I have been searching the forum and have had no luck working out a couple knots:
I have some other home-made DVDs that I need to rework for new menus, edits, mixes, etc... onto new DVDs (yes, I know that bringing in MPEGs from already-burnt DVDs is not recommended - in this case, however, it's unavoidable).
I have been using the fine freeware "DVD Decrypter" to rip the DVD in IFO mode, enabling the stream processing to successfully demux the video into M2V files and the audio into MP2 or AC3 (depending on how they were originally encoded - If the original disc was encoded as MP2, of course, all I would need to do is rename the VOB extension to MPG and I'm on my merry way - it imports fine.)
I have already jumped the AC3 --> MP2 hurdle by using a fine freeware utility called "HeadAC3he" and the resultant audio file, whether it's a WAV, MP2, MP3, etc... imports into MS without a problem.
The problem I have is with the M2V files that are generated. In most cases, a full disc will have 4 files, 3 at 1Gb, 1 at less than a Gb. I seem to have no problem with files 2 through 4 (so it's not a size issue), but the FIRST file in the sequence will not ever load! My gut response is that some kind of header was originally encoded at the beginning and it causes MS to fail the import. If this is the case, I'm clueless about what to do next. If there is some obscure setting that I could toggle in DVD Decrypter that would fix it, I would love to know, but the fine folks in that forum don't seem to know why the file plays OK with a RealOne Player - if MS doesn't load it, then it's a problem with MS.
Unfortunately, I'm inclined to agree.
Anybody know how I can edit previously-made DVDs if the method above is futile (or downright deadly and foolhardy in every respect)?
On my knees,
Cheepnis