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I`m getting totally confused about this concept. Can anyone point me in the right direction please ? Ta.

JohnF

I use Womble Mpeg Video Wizard 2003 this allows me to remove intro, outro and ad breaks before recording to a DVD-R with Ulead Video Studio 8 this allows more than one episode per DVD with a front end menu as well

Google will find both for you to try

This item was edited on Monday, 20th December 2004, 19:08

Thanks for the reply skyvan, perhaps I should have said it`s to edit a broadcast recorded on a stand-alone DVD recorder (Panasonic E50). Does that make a difference ?

JohnF

That`s what i`m doing recording with a Lite-On 5006 onto DVD+RW then taking it to the PC for the editing and recording onto DVD-R

OK, understood. I`ve downloaded Womble mpeg video wizard. What remains to be done now is to read the on line instructions fully as had a couple of stabs intuitively speaking which didn`t do what I expected. If I get that to work, then I guess I can finish up using my installed Movie Edit Pro 2004 (used to edit DV footage from camcorder).


JohnF

I have not read the instructions for Womble. so what follows is probably a kack-handed way of doing it, but it works
Ope Explorer and drag the VOB files from the DVD-RW disc into the videotrack, search for the ads click the Split clip button at beginning and end of ads then highlight section and click delete clip button. If you have a scroll wheel on mouse use this to scroll back/forward frame by frame
slide the two sections back together.
Highlight all the sections, click on each while holding down Shift, then press the group button
when all done click on export button, on floating toolbar
General tab to select dir/filename
Monitor tab to start, the file is saved as an .mpg file which can be loaded into Ulead
I`ve just done the thomas crown affair from 5 took about 20 mins to edit the 15 to create DVD.
consisted of 3 VOB files to drag in

Thanks for all that. Have been trying to use Movie Edit Pro 2004 to import the relevant VOB file by drag and drop. Seems to work except I get a brief view of all the frames on the Timeline and then the whole thing disappears. Am going nuts. As it is a retail copy and registered with Magix, I`m about to go on their website for support. Onwards and upwards :/

JohnF

Hope you don`t mind me asking, as its in area I`m interested in, but know little about:

Q1. what size hard disk would you recommend on pc/notebook for editing +RW dvds?
Q2. do you have a link to the Womble Mpeg Video Wizard 2003 (I searched on Google, but wanted to be sure I`d found a safe site to download from).

I also have loads of home movies some on vhs others on Hi 8 that I want to edit and put onto dvd.

Many thanks Niteowl.

Put me down as a big Womble MPEG Video Wizard fan-easy to use, it`s got some extremely powerful features AND the best thing of all it`s a `Smart` MPEG editor because it doesn`t resample your video (Unless you eant it to) when you edit, it basically makes a new, identical MPEG of the pieces you put onto the timeline ( once you start resampling MPEG video, then you get serious quality degridation).

One tip-your DVD will create .vob files-these are basically the `containers` for the MPEG files that DVD players can understand. The trouble is, they are split at 1gb in size, so if you are editing ,say, a concert that is a full disc in size (4.38gb) then you will have 4 .vob files. When you drag each one to the time line you will get a little `blip` in the audio and video where they join. To get over this, download a free program called VOBMERGE. You then drop all of the vob files that make up the show in the correct order and VOBMERGE will make a new, single .vob from them with seemless` joins`.


Of course, this will mean you need twice as much hard disc space, but once you`ve created the single .vob file, you can delete the files you took from your original disc.

The other thing to say is, you really need the NTFS filing system on your PC. FAT32 limits your individual file size to 4gb, and you will get bigger files than that when creating DVD`s.

FWIW, I use Womble MPEG Video Wizard to edit, then either TMPGEnc DVD Author or Sony DVD Architect to author the final product . TMPGenc is easier to use than DVD-A, but DVD-A does have a few extra bells and whistles (Though it`s hellishly expensive-I only get to use it via a friends PC). If the DVD is sightly oversized after authoring, I run it through DVD Shrink before burning.

Thanks for the info Emily, things are a little clearer now re VOB files.

Niteowl, this is the link to the Womble site http://www.womble.com/
Can`t really say how much disc space you need on your notebook, (other than the bigger, the better), as I`ve just got a desktop PC with 87gig spare space.

JohnF