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Paul Adsett
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posted October 16, 2008 02:04 PM

A couple of years ago I was fortunate to be able to visit Geoff Wheeler's Big Screen Time Convention at the AEC facility in Tadley (I have glowed in the dark ever since, but that is another story! [Big Grin]

) Anyway, Dave Locke was there putting on a projected DVD show and I remember that somehow he was able to seamlessly bring up trailers, featuresttes, excerpts etc, just like we do with film. But with film we do it by cutting and splicing onto reels, so how do you manipulate the DVD menu systems to get a seamless program where you want to say have trailers from one or two different discs, followed by a featurette on another disc, and then say a feature which is on yet another disc. I assume you need more than one DVD player, but exactly what is the method employed?

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Chip Gelmini
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posted October 16, 2008 09:32 PM

I would think a video switchbox is required. I could almost do that now at home. But what concerns me the most would be the timing. If you considered each dvd player as a pair of movie projectors, each playing part of the progran when their turn comes.

I don't think I would ever combine shows like that. I feel I would do it like double features, switching formats during intermissions.

I'm a rookie with dvd projection and yes, I really do like it.

But for changeovers, I'll stick with projected reel to reel film footage. When you can get it nearly perfect as I have many times, changeovers are an absolute blast.

Like you said Paul, it's all about showmanship!

CG

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Graham Sinden
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posted October 17, 2008 11:20 AM

Surely an easier way to do it is to copy the Trailers, short films, Interveiws ect. to the hard drive from the various DVD's and then make a new DVD-R using a standard DVD program. The files might need to be converted to AVI or MPEG but there are programs to do it. You could even grab clips from feature films and save it as a new Mpeg file or similar. Then you just put all these clips and trailers on the one disc in the order you want to show them. (Nero would do it and include a menu)

It might be illegal but who's to know.

Graham S

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Chip Gelmini
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posted October 17, 2008 11:45 AM

Graham,

Wouldn't copy protection make those steps difficult? Or at the least, wreak havoc upon playback?

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Graham Ritchie
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posted October 17, 2008 02:48 PM

Graham.

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Jean-Marc Toussaint
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posted October 17, 2008 04:21 PM

There's a little software out there called Hand brake that does wonders... [Big Grin]

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Graham Sinden
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posted October 17, 2008 06:04 PM

2 free software programs I can recommended are 'DVD Decrypter' and/or 'DVD Shrink'. The former copies all the DVD to the hard drive and takes out copy protection, while the latter will pick up the files from the hard drive and make a new DVD that is identical to the original. You might be able to use DVD Shrink on its own to do both.

As I said once the files you want are on the hard drive you can use Nero to make a nice DVD with an easy to use menu that is ideal for presentations.

Graham S

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Brad Miller
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From: Dallas, TX, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted October 17, 2008 10:46 PM

DVD Shrink 3.2 and a burning program is all you need.

Open the program and click "re-author". Navigate to your DVD drive. Drag whatever you want from that disc over to the DVD structure window in the order you want. Now if you want to edit out part of the files (for example, if you want to only use one scene from a feature), click on the icon with the double arrows and designate your start and end point. Click the backup button and let it do its thing. Do this for the clips from each DVD you want to pull content from, putting each "rip" into its own folder.

Now restart the program and navigate to the folder you want to play first. Drag the video files over to the DVD structure window, then navigate to the next folder and repeat until you have your entire show. Then click the backup button and you will then have a final set of files which can be burned with a program like Nero.

Remember when burning to select "DVD Video", not "DVD-ROM" or any other variation. Then simply drag your final set of files into the VIDEO_TS folder and burn.

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Christopher Way
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Registered: Oct 2008

posted October 28, 2008 09:17 AM

There are many programmes such as DivX, Moviemaker, DVDMaker, etc. All associated with Windows OS that are perfect for this. One can download excerts form various formats, add in movie pictures, trailers, and much more, and the transitions then are put in place to either separate or have a flow through vision, with or without sound and/or music. The guy who runs our Home Cinema locally is a DVD Format user, and he does all this to produce Part 1 of the show, which will include Adverts, Short Films, Pathe News, Pearl and Dean, Intermissions, with serialised films. This is then followed by the evenings feature film.

Regards, Chris

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