Mixing DVD Tracks
Posted on July 13, 2006
Usually, I either know how to do something or I can figure it out or I can find a solution somewhere. At the moment, I am faced with something I don’t know how to do and I don’t have the time to devote to figure it out.
We have a DVD with multiple tracks and I need to pull a few tracks and re-order them and burn them to a DVD. My first thought was that it can’t be that hard, maybe there’s an open-source video mixer like Audacity is for audio. I have briefly looked but I just wanted to pose this dilemma here and see what all of you smart people could tell me.
Is there some open-source software to do this? Is it not as hard as I’m making it? I know the pros use Adobe Premier and maybe that’s the only way to go, but I’m wondering what some other options are? Something I learned after over-promising on producing this DVD is that DVD’s are not as simple as CD’s.
So let me know what you know about this and help me become smarter. Even a link to a website would be cool.
Oh yeah, ideally, I need to re-mix the videos and make multiple copies of this DVD by this Sunday. Â Â 
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So you are trying to get video off of other DVD’s to make your own? Is that what I’m trying to understand?
A free program I like to use is DVD decryptor to get the video off of the DVD. It used to be free, but I’m not sure if it still is. If it’s not free, you can try ImgBurn or AnyDVD.
To crop or edit the video I use VirtualDub. VirtualDub can write your edited video into whatever codec you have.
Then I use basic ol Nero to burn it back to DVD.
It takes time to get it so the video looks decent. I really have no clue what I’m doing so if someone knows a better way I’d love to know myself. Ha! The results of this process has been very helpful in the past.
Sorry I don’t have links. It’s way to early to think that hard.
Thanks Shellie! To clarify, since I realize now that I wasn’t that clear in my point, I realize now, is that I have a couple of DVD’s that are songs for children’s worship. For each track, there is an instructional part where they explain the actions for the song, then the next track is the song itself. On the 2 DVD’s, I have about 5 songs I want to pull off, so 10 tracks, that I need to re-order and burn to a new DVD. These will be handed out to some of the leaders so they can learn the actions for the songs for VBS.
The DVD has files with extensions like .bup .ifo .vob and they don’t seem to tie to each song. There’s about 13 songs and there are 10 various files
Thanks again, Shellie! I have a good place to start now, and I’ve got to get busy between now and Sunday!
I also heard good things about Wax. http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
You can try Pinnacle Studio. We use Studio 9 for getting stuff off dvds, goto file and it has import from DVD or something to that effect. I never liked Studio, but it is the only thing I have seen that will import seperate sections of a dvd. Here is a link to the trial, but I haven’t tried it.
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/Consumer+Products/Home+Video/Studio+Family/Studio+Plus+version+10_5+Titanium+Edition+Documents/Trial+Download/
Yeah, it’s probably a different process because of the audio. However, DVD decryptor will still get the job done. ‘crypt’ is a good term to use, because it doesn’t give you any clue what’s what’s on the dvd. It’s a bit ‘cryptic’.
You just have to guess honestly, or rip it all and sort out the vobs you want later. By default it picks the ‘biggest’ file to rip. (It’s assuming you’re ripping movies, and it assumes the biggest file is the movie itself).
And since this is audio, you could use DGIndex to convert the acc audio (I’m guessing, I don’t remember the DVD audio format) from the DVD to wav format, then you could burn a regular Audio CD if you wanted to go that route.
I’d love to hear what you finally figure out.
I’m interested in your final solution too. I found out that DVDs are much more difficult than first envisioned because you imagine them being as easy to manipulate as DV editing, and they’re not. If you’re trying to edit and splice the things, you’ll probably need to rip it to some DV format, use a video editor on it, then author the DVD. I’m not aware of any tool out that there lets you “edit” a DVD in native format.
Summary on MPEG editing
I’ve also never found one product that does everything. Ulead Video Studio is about the closest thing I’ve found, but you usually need a couple applications.
A friend of mine used and loved VideoRedo, which he said was wicked fast and easy to use.
Good luck.
Try DVD Shrink.
It allows you to re-author a dvd. (send me an e-mail if you’d like me to walk you through this) It was free. You will need a program to reburn your new DVD. Nero works well with DVD shrink.