? cutting/joining movie clips

[EuropeanMan]

Ok, I have a question that covers a few areas of video editing.

Ok, I have 13 movies. (actually, 14...but the last one is separate)

From these 13 movies, I want to cut out a music video section, let's say a particular musical sequence that covers a song from start to finish. On ALL 13 DVDs, they have english subtitles. So therefore, I wish to cut out, lets say 6 minutes of the movie WITH the subtitles intact.

So after all 13 music numbers are cut out...what I want to do then, is to JOIN all of them together. So like a short movie, but just with music videos...so one song (WITH THE ENGLISH SUBTITLES) plays right after one another.

NEXT, after joining all these sections...I want them all to be JUST as a VIDEO_TS folder...I hope I can do this WITHOUT having to convert to .avi format. I also wish to retain top sound quality. I do NOT wish to lose any quality whatsoever in video as well.

So, I am guessing there will be several .vob files within the folder...IF i burn this to DVD, will I be able to play this like any other DVD?

So yes, this is a gift I need to give before Eid (on the 31st december)...so I would love an answer...

Thank you in advance for the help. Please let me know any and all software I need..

Oh yes, the 14th music video is separate...so yes, i will have 2 different DVDs...ONE with the 13 song sequence, and 2nd DVD is ONLY the 14th song by itself.

{All 14 movies are Hindi films...and for those who know about them, they all have musical numbers in them...so this gift is about getting those 13 together on one disc, and the last on another from 14 different DVDs...}

I hope this is the right forum for me to post this. This is my first time posting a question...and I am not too familiar with searching.

From what I have heard, it is easier to convert all 14 movies into .avi format...and then cut them. But that takes too much time, right? Also, I was told that once those 14 pieces are converted back to DVD file format, ie. .vob & .ifo files, you would need a DVD authoring tool to make the whole DVD playable on any player...so I am lost. I was also told that maybe it's easier to also make a menu so you can play any of the 13 chapters (music videos/numbers) on that one DVD...of course the 14th would play just the ONE video by itself...

[BigCondor]

Use DVD Shrink on that with re-author mode.Cut out the clip you want. Then open another disc in Full Disc mode and return to re-author mode and add clips until you are done.

One thing to note, make sure you have the subtitle streams all at the same position for all clips.

[r0lZ]

I agree. DVDShrink is really easy to do what you want. However, all tracks will be put in separate titles.

If you really want to include all tracks as chapters of the same Title, you need to work a bit more.
- Demux all PGCs of the DVDShrink compilation using PgcDemux (http://jsoto.posunplugged.com/dvdtools.htm).
(Use the options to demux all streams and to produce the celltimes.txt file, with the end time!) Output each track to another folder. Note the audio delay.
- Build a new celltimes.txt file with a text editor. For each track, add the end time of its celltimes.txt file to the total, and write that number in the file. Do NOT include the end time of the last track!
- Remux all demuxed files as one single title with Muxman (http://www.mpucoder.com/Muxman/) (the free version is sufficient.) Use the celltimes.txt file you have created manually to define the chapter points. Don't forget to specify the audio delays! Muxman will recreate a complete DVD structure.

Verify carefully the compilation, especially if there is no sound and subpic de-synchronization, and if the transition between the tracks are correct (because DVDShrink will cut the video without re-encoding the first GOP, some artifacts can be visible during the first second of each chapter)!

[EuropeanMan]

I tried the DVD Shrink reauthor tool. However, it takes only the whole chapter...NOT just 5-7 minutes WITH subtitles...

someone else recommended to me TMPGenc DVD Author, so I am currently downloading that and hopefully that might work.

[BigCondor]

You can cut at the middle of the chapter with DVD Shrink, use the slider to find the exact location.

[Guest]

I'm closing all but one of your crosspostings. Please don't do it again.