How do I edit DVDs

[Jim1234]

Hi, I appeal to you smart guys/gals. I am new to this. I have a DVD recorder drive and a DVD player drive on my computer. I would love to be able to copy my movies to the hard drive, edit them (take out bad words/scenes) and then burn them to another DVD. I have the latest copies of Nero, DVDshrink, DVDdecrypter, and DVDFabdecrypter. Also, it seems some movies are so protected that this is impossible. I have tried to rip the movie "High School Musical" to hard drive but then could never find a way to burn it to another disk. DVDshrink would not read it on my hard drive, yet I could view it with sonic viewer on my hard drive.

Thank you for your help

[dialysis1]

Welcome.
Here are some guides to get you started.
Happy Reading!

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=26

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@Jim1234

Hi!I have tried to rip the movie "High School Musical" to hard drive but then could never find a way to burn it to another disk.This is a Disney release and, therefore, it VERY likely contains "RipGuard" copy protection, which can be dealt with as follows:

1) Rip using DVD Decrypter v.3.5.4 in "File" mode (select "ALL" files, NOT "movie" files) and

2) Load the rip into VOBBlanker, set a new output directory/folder, select "Process all" and then press the "Process" radiobutton

DVD Shrink should then happily accept this "cleaned up" rip for processing...

[Jim1234]

I used the program VOBBlanker and it crashed my hard drive. I was trying to copy a new DVD I purchased called Narnda. I used DVDFab Decrypter to rip it to the hard drive. It was taking over an hour so I stopped it. I noticed that all of the main files for the movie were on the Hard drive so I tried using VOBBlanker on it. It froze for a long time so I tried to stop it but it would not stop, I kept going through the end now blocks over and over, so finally I reset the computer manually. But then it would only go to the blue screen of death and no further. I can't even go into windows safe mode. Is VOBBlanker not compatable with windows XP home edition?

[JimS]

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Before I start backing up any commercial DVD I do a couple things first:
1. I Google or Yahoo search to find what solutions others have found.
:search: " MOVIENAME Decrypt DVD " finds answers for me.
2. Then I reboot my PC and kill any background programs that
might interfere before starting. (It wouldn't surprize me if running
in SAFE MODE might not be a better way to work.)

I have been successful using DVD Fab, then DVD Shrink, and
finally DVD Decrypter (to burn). No need for DVD43 or AnyDVD
running in the background.

Sometimes the above doesn't work, so:
Sometimes I need IfoEdit to clean Ifo-files.
Sometimes I need VobBlanker to clean Vob-files.

So far I have been able to backup (movie only) to DVD everything I've tried.

DVD Fab and VobBlanker is not very fast. Be patient.
All the above programs are free, except AnyDVD (which I don't use).
They all work with WinXP and should also work in Linux using WINE.
(I haven't tested them as yet in Linux. Hopefully someday soon I will.)

JimS
Prostate Cancer Surviver
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[Jim1234]

Back to my orginal question, is there a program that will allow me to edit (take out scenes) of a movie I have ripped to my hard drive and then burn the DVD to a blank DVD?

That is after I reboot my Hard drive after the crash.

[CWR03]

Cuttermaran is a very easy to use editing program, but it may not work exactly the way you might like. It doesn't "edit out" sections like bad words, so you'd have to save all the parts around it instead. The bad news is that as far as I know there's no program that can do exactly what you want. I would suggest something similar: once you successfully decrypt the video, convert the audio to .WAV, use a program to "bleep" out the bad words and use an authoring program to re-burn a new DVD from the original video and the edited audio.

[blutach]

Try VobBlanker (http://jsoto.posunplugged.com/vobblanker.htm) - it can cut on a GOP level. Guides on the site. After VobBlanker (http://jsoto.posunplugged.com/vobblanker.htm) has done its work, I always burn with PgcEdit (http://www.videohelp.com/~r0lZ/pgcedit/index.html) to make an ISO which calls ImgBurn to burn it. All software free and fully supported at doom9.

Regards