Creating multi-rating DVDs

[mikecito]

I have a simple question which might require a complex answer. Here is my goal:

I wish to take a normal DVD, rip just the main movie to keep things simple, and then remaster the dvd so that it has all the swear words, sex, gross violence, etc taken out. I want my kids to be able to watch some great films without all the stuff that will mess up their mind. I'm fine with just skipping the small one or two second segments to accomplish this.

I don't want to lose any quality on the movie, and thus wish to avoid any reencoding if possible.

I've been trying to get this to work using Scenarist, but I keep getting remux errors. Is there a program that can author dvds that accepts VOB files instead of demuxed files? For some reason - Scenarist doesn't give me errors on the first demuxed VOB, but it does on subsequent demuxed VOBS. Sometimes it won't even accept the demuxed video and ac3.

I've tried this on 3 different DVDs, all of which are pretty simple dvds.

Any ideas? Am I even headed in the right direction?
Thanks a ton!

Mikecito

[mikecito]

I figured it out!!!!!

Nevermind - I'm going to draw up a guide, and I'll post a link to it.

Mikecito

[mikecito]

Here are the steps:
1)Rip DVD to hard drive using smart ripper, stream processing just the video and audio

2)Demux using tmpgenc

3)import to Scenarist (others might work, but I like scenarist best)

4)set new chapter points, one before and one after the part you want to clip. (The only letdown here is that it has to be on an I-frame)

5)don't include all chapters in the PGC. Leave out chapters, even if they are one second long, that contain the material you don't want.

6)create dvd structure

7)rip the NEW(scenarist created) dvd files with smart ripper, stream processing again, leaving you with a vob that has just the material you need...in other words, smart ripper does the clipping using the ifo file created by Scenarist!

8)demux with tmpgenc again

9)import to scenarist(notice the edited points are gone), set new chapters, make menus, etc

10)export to dvd - open the ifo in ifoedit and correct vts pointers

11)BURN BABY


Good Luck!