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DVD9 split to two DVD5's while retaining menus and video quality |
| ashes2flames posted 2009 Oct 15 13:46 |
| First off, incredible website and forums here.
Tons of information. I've been reading a lot, but honestly a little overwhelmed/confused/stupid so please forgive me for this newbie post, I know the topic has been covered several times. :oops: The original DVD9 consists of 4 episodes of a tv documentary. The menus allow you to "play all" or play a specific episode. If you choose an episode there is another menu where you can pull up a screen with text information summarizing that episodes content or you can skip to chapters within the episode. I have all the ifo, bup and vob files, but the vob files aren't separate for each episode. The episodes overlap from one vob file into another. Sometimes an episode will end halfway into a vob and another will start, to be continued on the next vob, etc. I'm trying to create 2 DVD5's (2 episodes each), retain all the menu functionality and keep the original video quality (there is a lot of old archival footage in it that isn't great quality to begin with). Can I re-author this using the vobs, etc that I already have? All this and I need free tools to do it too! lol Because I am broke, or I would just buy the DL disks! :lol: Very grateful for any help. I was looking at VobBlanker and reading some guides and I think I'm in over my head. |
| jman98 posted 2009 Oct 15 14:02 |
| Yes, you can do this, but I'm not sure I'd call it easy for a newbie. Here's one way. Go to http://www.doom9.net. They prevent direct linking so at the main page go to Guides -> DVD / miniDVD -> DVD backup guides -> DVD-9 > 2 DVD+-R and then pick either one. I do the IFOEdit one, but DVDFab might be easier. However, the free DVDFab may not do this for you. IFOEdit is free but you have to do it all yourself. |
| manono posted 2009 Oct 15 19:37 |
| VobBlanker is the way to go these days:
http://download.videohelp.com/jsoto/guides/VobBlanker/splitdvd9/index.php If you've seen this guide before and consider it too hard, then either work through it slowly and patiently or give up on this project. The IFOEdit method is exponentially more difficult. |
| ashes2flames posted 2009 Oct 21 15:27 |
| I don't know what my mental block was with VobBlanker, but I'm so glad I deleted it and gave IFOEdit a try. Easy, fast and did exactly what I wanted.
I guess my brain just works differently. For me, IFOEdit was exponentially easier. Thanks for the help jman98 and manono. |
| fritzi93 posted 2009 Oct 21 20:21 |
| Wow, I'm with manono on this. You really found the IfoEdit method easier? :P |
| manono posted 2009 Oct 21 21:31 |
| Strange eh, fritzi93? Different people's brains are wired differently, I guess, as ashes2flames says. The VobBlanker guide covers all the fine points and makes it look harder than it really is.
Basically you just open the DVD, go into the cells and blank out the second half of them and process. That gives you the first half of the movie. You repeat, this time blanking out the first half of all the cells and process. Then you have the second half of the movie. That would be enough, and is about all that you did using IFOEdit (unless you did the 'skip-menu-and-play-second-half part). But the menu buttons for the missing cells (chapters) of each half are still functioning. So the guide also walks you through disabling the non-functioning buttons, and also having it skip over the blank cells when starting (part 2) the movie, or finishing (part1) the movie. Without doing that there might be a several second delay when playing the movie, at the beginning or end, depending on which DVD it is. Glad you got it sorted out, ashes2flames. |
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