Chickenman: Star Trek TNG question

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XR8Falcon06

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Chickenman,

I have begun to back up my collection of Star Trek The Next Generation DVD's Session 1 as per the request of my previous thread.

Now I have ripped the movies in disc one to my hard drive and edited out all the unwanted subtitles and audio streams. I have run it in CCE and have the required files.

This is my question,

I don't really want to include the menus for the DVD, I just want the movies. What do I have to do different as per the tutorial you gave me in the other thread? When I set the clock in DVDMaestro how will I do it since I am not including the menus?

And finally as this is the first time I have ever done an episode DVD do I have to put all the three or four episodes into the same DVD Maestro session.

Sorry for the silly questions mate but I just want to get it right.

XR8Falcon06
 
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XR8Falcon06

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Ok I have re-authored all the movies on the first disk and would like to know is it just a matter of putting all three episodes on to disk using Nero?

Would I have to create a multsession disk or what as the files are all the same.
or
Would I copy all movies in to the one video_ts folder and then burn it like that?
or
Am I just wwwwaaaayyyy off track here?!

XR8Falcon06
 
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XR8Falcon06

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I have authored all the episodes on disc one and I did them as individual movies, my question is

If I burn them to one disk do I put them all in the one VIDEO_TS folder? (will I need to change any names or will it know what order to play each episode?)

Or

Do I need to Author all files together? Whats the best thing to do here?

XR8
 
ChickenMan

ChickenMan

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When in Maestro, it normally opens up with a Movie1 only. Right click on Movie and select "Add a Movie", then do that 2 more times. Delete the Menu1. You now have Movie1, Movie2, Movie3 & Movie4. Double click each to create the 4 Timelines and load each episode into its own timeline and chapters. Then Compile. You will end up with a VIDEO_TS folder (and AUDIO_TS) with all 4 eps in there. Just burn to DVDR as per normal. You can use TMPGEnc DVD Author or DVDLab to author also in a similar way. Do NOT make a Multisession DVDR.
 
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XR8Falcon06

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Ok have run into another problem here, I did everything like you said to do in all your tutorials and I have the problem now that the finished product is rather large! 6.15 gig what have I done wrong? and where do I go from here.

XR8
 
ChickenMan

ChickenMan

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To get a final size of 6.15gig then you have not set the CD size correctly in the Bitrate Tab. The CD size for the 0 to 50 mins line (top line) should have been set to 1100 so the total for the 4 eps would be 4400. You now need to re-encode them all again.
 
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XR8Falcon06

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I just checked my settings in DVD2SVCD and it was indeed set to 1100 as per your tutorial extra you made for me. Is it possible that because the first movie on the disk is 1 1/2 hours long (two episodes)?

I have one more question for you mate,

When I put in disk 2 both DVDXcopy Xpress and DVDDecrypter both had heart attacks and threw up error messages saying that a file could not be found when I ran DVDDecrypter it could not find episode 3 on the second disk. Did you have trouble with this disk or not?

XR8Falcon06
 
ChickenMan

ChickenMan

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You need to set the CD size for the first ep to 2200 of cource. But its not the 0-50min line, but now the 76 - 100min line that needs the 2200. The 2nd & 3rd ep needs 1100 CD size of course. The mpg file created by DVD2SVCD should be about 2200 meg long for Ep 1 and about 1100 meg for Eps 2 & 3. Check their lengths and if not approx those sizes then you have set something wrong.

Sounds like Disk 2 is stuffed to me. I have done all 7 series without any problems. There are no copy protections on DVD's as of yet. Clean the surface with some Metho on a Tissue, even if it looks clean and try DVD Decypter or SmartRipper again.
 
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XR8Falcon06

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Thanks for that Chickenman, I did the first disk with DVDXCopy Xpress version 3.0.1 and I got awesome results, in being I got all menus, subtitles, and audio features and almost as good in quality as doing it with CCE.

I did disk 3 the same way got all the menus and features but the quality is a bit less than the first disk.

Disk two I have ripped now (excluding 3rd episode) and will convert it now to see how it looks.

Thanks for all your help mate and I am very thankful for the time you have given me in getting this worked out.

XR8Falcon06
 
ChickenMan

ChickenMan

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No probs. As far as I'm concerned, its worth the bit more trouble you have to go to to get them better than what IC7 or the others can do.
 
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