DVD editing software for titles, chapters, menus, etc?

Triumph

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
15,031
14
81
My dad converted a bunch of our old home movies to DVD using a dual deck VHS/DVD recorder, but the thing puts the chapters at regular intervals, like every 2 minutes or something. And the menu leaves alot to be desired, very generic. Anyone know of some good software that will allow me to strip the chapter and menu settings, edit, and reburn to a DVD? I'd like to be able to put up a menu with my own fancy graphics, and put chapter markings at the intervals that I want, like "5th birthday" or "Summer vacation" or something like that.
 

Rottie

Diamond Member
Feb 10, 2002
4,795
1
81
Nero Vision 4 is what I use..it is fairly esay to use. If you have bought a DVD drive then it might comes with free NERO Burning ROM.
 

gsellis

Diamond Member
Dec 4, 2003
6,061
0
0
Actually, what you want is Pinnacle Studio 11. You should be able to import the VOBs, rechapter, create a disc menu, and not lose info on a recode of the media (Studio's Liquid engine does native M2V/MPEG2 editing). At least in theory as I can do that in Liquid 7.
 

AnitaPeterson

Diamond Member
Apr 24, 2001
5,962
456
126
TMPGEnc DVD Author also reads the DVD structure and re-creates the original mpeg2 file quickly and without re-encoding.

I use it all the time for my OTA DVD captures.

Look at this post, under the TMPGEnc entry, for more details:
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic224833.html

I have nothing personal against Pinnacle, but I find their products to be greedy when it comes to system resources, and they're a nightmare to uninstall.
 

Bowfinger

Lifer
Nov 17, 2002
15,776
392
126
Originally posted by: gsellis
Actually, what you want is Pinnacle Studio 11. You should be able to import the VOBs, rechapter, create a disc menu, and not lose info on a recode of the media (Studio's Liquid engine does native M2V/MPEG2 editing). At least in theory as I can do that in Liquid 7.
I strongly recommend against any Pinnacle products. Their products have been buggy to the point of being unusable, their support is abysmal, and they've proven they will lie to customers -- in writing -- to get people off their back. Buyer beware.

My $0.02. YMMV.