LOTR Extended Edition Marathon - Seamless Branch?

[ttringle]

Hi all,

I'm having some friends over to watch the first two LOTR Extended Edition DVD's before we see Return of the King.

So I would like to play them back off of my HD and I am going to be using a projector and would ideally like to combine both movies as seamlessly as possible, bypassing credits etc.

I'm thinking seamless branching might be the way to go, but if possible I would love to edit the vob for the last scene in Fellowship and continue directly into Two Towers without even seeing the LOTR Logo while keeping the audio, well maybe i'll keep the logo as it's pretty cool.

Any ideas? Some requirements would be that I don't want to have to re-encode the video, as i don't want to lose quality. And I am intending to use the DTS Soundtrack of course over the DD.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have of course access to alot of editing/conversion/dvd building software as an amateur dvd creator (with aspirations of some day doing it professionally) so hopefully I should have access to whatever is needed to accomplish this.

Thanks

Timt

[influenza]

This would be not to difficult (assuming the assets between both titles are the same: audio bitrate and video aspect ratio).

You could just rip the dvds to your hd. Use dif4u to demux them.

Import all the needed assets into an authoring program and then author it. While authoring leave out all the stuff you don't want like opening credits etc. It depends on how the original is setup how the demux should take place. You might get away by just leaving chapters out (as for the credits for example)and maybe vobid demux is needed.

I would go for scenarist and just put everything into one pgc.

PS: this is laso assuming you don't need a mneu, nut just want to watch the movie (chapter points/subs are no problem ofcourse)

ps2:this has nothing to do with seamless branching, more like seamless connection ;)

[micattac]

This is a great Idea. I think I am going to the exact same thing. Now if only my friends would return my Extended Edition Boxes...
I think the easiest way would be to do this with dvdshrink. I made a similiar post to join episodic dvd's in this forum post (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=63859).
Basically you should first rip the four discs to HD. Open up dvdshrink (version 3 beta 5 !!) open the first disc and then select reauthor. Open the second disc, press reauthor, until you have all four discs open and one empty window.
Start dragging the Main Movie Title-Set's to the empty window.
Next deselect unwanted languages and say that you don't want to compress.
You should end up with one big VIDEO_TS folder. You can also use START/END cutting to get rid of the credits/opening sequences.

Cheers
MicAttAck