Combining Home made 8cm DVD's

[ronka13]

Hi to you all..

I've got a small problem, but I seem to be unable to solve this.

I've done a conference (me = organiser) (see http://www.Entwicklercamp.de for details if someone is interested), where we filmed all sessions with a Panasonic VDR-M30 DVD camera.. It creates nice 8 CM dvd player ready disks, which can be instandly viewed on any DVD player (which plays DVD-R disks that is).
The problem is that except for 3 sessions all sessions have multiple disks, and I would really like to be able to burn several pieces of film onto one 4.7 Gb disk.
I've also successfully copied all the disks (53 !) to a harddrive, and used vobedit to get the sessions into one vob file set.
How ever I have not found a tool yet which would allow me to combine those vob sets into ONE newly (to be created) DVD (preferable with a simple menu).
Could anyone here direct me to a tool which allows me to have those smaller sessions be packed onto a single DVD?
This by the way results in 12 DVD's instead of the present 27 with each less then 50% of the DVD used.

I would love to find such a tool, and if they only exist as buy tool, then I will have to invest money to do so.

Any comments here, or directly to my email DVD.Stuff - AT - NoneExistent.com (and yes, this IS a valid email domain).

Thanks

Ronka13

[oddyseus]

dvdlab or tmepg dvd author r two simple authoring tools that u can use to combine your clips in sets to a dvdr. Both of them r accepting ready vob files and r capable of menus.

[ronka13]

I have tried to search, but had no real luck finding my right keyword.. now that know what to look for, I actually found what I was looking for.
However I have not found a download url for dvdlab yet.. still searching though...

Simualteneously I am looking for the tmepg dvd thingy.. what ever comes first.

Found both.. one on www.tmepg.net, and the other through www.dvdlab.net redirection to http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/index.html

Thanks.. will see if they do what the website states.. (do hope so).

Ronka13

[ronka13]

I've successfully created menu's and such, and am still testing other stuff..

I did find out that using vobedit to combine the parts results in unwanted sideeffects like loosing the total length of the part, and after the cobination point it starts over with 0:00 instead of continuing.

I have not "solved" this problem with dvdöab though but have simply used the old 8cm dvd images to remake the total "film" inside dvdlab.

Got one new question through..

Three sessions have a nasty brumm sound added to the audio.. is there anyway to remove this from the vob files (the brumm sound, not all of the sound as I can hear the "real" speaker in the background).

(yes, I removed this last section from the previous posting, and added it here, as I seem to believe no-one reopend the posting after I added this, anyway.. the first part of my "task" is successfull, now al I need is a second part as well).

Ronka

[oddyseus]

u may use dvd2avi to save a wav version of the sound.

After that u may use the filters of a sound editor and try to delete the anomaly. Imagine that u r making a karaoke sound.

Can't really sugest a how to guide or guarante that the results will be satisfactory since I haven't ever done such a thing. Good luck though :)

[ronka13]

Thanks.. but as I am totally new to this, and I have no clue where to start searching, could you (or anyone else) give me a clue what kind of tool I should be looking for ?

[Asmodian]

What exactly are you trying to do to the audio?
If you want to be able to process the audio in something like cooledit (to delete sounds you don't like) you need the audio in a format that can be used by cooledit. As oddyseus said DVD2AVI is the name of a program that can save the ac3 track from a DVD as well as save the decoded ac3 as a wav which is usable by cooledit (DVD2AVI is available in the downloads section here at doom9).

[ronka13]

What I want to do is following.

Alle sessions have been recorded using a external microphone, and in about three sessions this has resultet in taping the fan of the beamer (aka a rather continuous sound which makes the speaker sound very silent in the background).
What I would like to have is a tool to remove the contineous sound (the brumm) and pump up the volume of the remaining sound.

Cool Edit Pro is now Adobe Audition, and the site does not show any demo ware to be availeble..

Because of the good working tools I've allready decided to buy dvdlab, as it does what I need, and it seems to have some quirks, but works ok for me (trim end results in a mpg file, which then no longer can be inserted, renaming the mpg to vob allows this again.. as I said quirk)..

I am unsure if this cool edit gibes me the solution I need, but I al willing to try this software, and if successfull then buy it.

Am I clear enough about what to achive ?

Ronka

[oddyseus]

Why don't u try to edit the audio in the software that came with your audio cards. Rarely nowdays a sound card isn't bundled with a wav editor. Some of them r quite good.

As for the DVD2AVI issue. Have u downloaded it? U can find it here (http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Decoders/decodefix100.zip).
Load the vobs u want to trancode, Check the decode in audio tab and Save project.

U will get the audio in wav format.

[Asmodian]

I am sorry but I actually don't have much experiance editing audio files, just transcoding them. That said I don't think it is going to be easy to do what you want unless the tools have improved a lot since I tried them (which they very well could have).

I have used cooledit in the past but it has been a few years since. I am not at all sure it would easly do what you want, I just mentioned it as an example wav editor.

[ronka13]

I've found the new pro version (aka adobe) as trial version on download.com.com (long live this site), and will try it out today..

DVD2AVU has allready been in my possession (dvd2svcd came with it), so I can try this out today.

will report the results back.

Ronka