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Tantabootsy
29th May 2003, 10:31
Hi,
I've got the "Blues Brothers" here, it's a version with additional scenes in it.
But these scenes are in English so always when I watch the movie in german there are some scenes where the language changes to English, what I don't want.
So I thought of making a DVD, where I can choose between two versions a "German" one and an "English extended one.
My question's now how you would proceed.
At first I thought of maybe either splitting by cell id with dif4u and then cut out the scenes I don't want or cut out the scenes with VDubMod if that would be possible. Or are there better ways of doing this? Because I don't want to mess around if there would be easier ways..
The second question is if I could set the shorter version in Scenarist and then "paste in" the english scenes of the extended version
when I choose that in the menu. But how would the Structure look like then? Or would I have to make two films? I don't think so or am I wrong?..

I hope someone can help me a little bit..

coona
29th May 2003, 13:38
I guess that seamless branching should be solution for you. Make two version of your movie: german and english. I guess that both versions use the same video (english something more, of course). So "divide" your german version into VOBIDs or CELLs, put them into both version and add english clips into english version.
Your structure should look like this:

PGC 1 (german version)
Chapter 1 cell 1.1 -> cell 1.2
Chapter 2 cell 1.3 -> ...

PGC 2 (english version)
Chapter 1 cell 1.1 -> cell 2.1 (english clip) -> cell 1.2
Chapter 2 cell 1.3 -> ...

Add audio and subtitles for each VOBId or CELL, make simple menu with two buttons (normal and extended version) and compile. It shouldn´t be so difficult ;).

Tantabootsy
29th May 2003, 15:30
Alright, then I was on the right track.. ;-)
Thanks alot!

Tantabootsy
29th May 2003, 17:16
..shit, cell-id splitting's not enough, I'll have to cut out the scenes manually, this will make it much harder..