Combine selected chapters from various DVDs

[Pyre8]

HI, my first post, and thanks so much to all those who have posted such valuable info in these forums (and of course, Derrow, without whom several of us would be, I am guessing, be running rather blind). My first few rip-n-burns have been very successful, thanks to you all....

I am now trying to do something different that I have not seen any reference to. I want to pick some selected chapters only from different DVDs, and then burn them onto a DVD-R. In other words, chapters 2,5 from DVD1, chapters 3,6 from DVD2, so on .... into 1 DVD-R chapters running 1-n. If I can build a chapter menu, that would be great.

My initial thoughts are to rip just the chapters out, convert to AVI (not reqrd.?), then use an authoring software (ULead MovieFactory) to author the DVD?:confused:

Any thoughts, ideas....:)

[ryutran18]

i accomplished this before. my use for it was with a karoake. i wanted to get all the good songs into one dvd. basicly same thing u want to do. the only flaw in this is that, there is no menu. but who needs one.

go here. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17175
hope this helps.

[Pyre8]

Sounds good, I will try that in the absence of anything better (sounds easy and simple) :) but if only I could have a chapter menu too :(

[mikeathome]

Hi,

- put everything on the harddisk (SR in MovieMode) + Video_TS in FileMode
- get info about right audio / video track first by using IfoEdit on the Video_TS.IFO
- take VStrip, import the .lst file created by SR
- set desired streams to output (don't let him create AC3 headers!)
- demux Audio / Video with setting Split at Cell ID
- this will leave you with all the chapters separated into individual .m2v (video) and .ac3 (audio) files
- import .m2v's into Maestro
- put video onto the timeline in desired order
- hit right mouse button while over the audio track and choose 'Create Sync Audio' (Note: all Video and Audio pairs have to be of same name (different extension for sure ;-) and in the same folder, so rename the output from VStrip accordingly!)
- compile and burn, straight forward eazy and the fastest way.

mike