The-poacher said:
I already have a ChickenMan T-Shirt. What I need is a good supply of stubby holders though.
@ XR8Falcon06, flatery will get you everywhere
Okay back to the subject. All the TNG dvd's have 4 eps each except the last od each seroes which have 2 plus 6-8 extras. I'll deal with the 4 eps disks first.
Rip each episode off the dvd in IFO mode to its own folder (I just name them 1, 2, 3 & 4 for simplicity). Treat each as a movie and process as per the DVD to DVDR Tute (I did all mine in Batch Mode) except for:
1. Set in the Bitrate tab the top line for )-50min, the CD size should be set to 1100 ( a 1/4 of 4400 ) since there are 4 episodes on the dvd.
2. In the Advanced options of CCE, untick ALL MPEG2 Video settings except for "DVD Compliance".
3. For Disk3 Season 1, in the Encoder Tab, set the Field Order to "Bottom Field First (Field B)"
The original opening flyby and animated menu is stored in the VTS_01_0.VOB file. This can be loaded into DVD2AVI (delete all others that load in also) and then use the slider to finad the sequence start and finish. Save Projuct, make sure Audio is set to Demux and Track 2. Track 1 is German. I save the Intro sequence, then repeat and save the Menu part. Load the Intro.d2v file into TMPGEnc, load in PAL DVD Template, then in settings set the Motion Search Precision to "Highest Quality (very slow)" and the Rate Control Mode to Manual VBR and set bitrate to be 5000. Ok. Make sure Stream Type is set to "ES (Video Only)" remove anything in the audio line and hit Start. In a min or 2 it will have produced a *.m2v file for you and dvd2avi gave you the audio. Repeat for the Menu.
Author in Mastro. Create a timeline for Movie!, Movie2, Movie3, Movie4, Movie5 and the Menu.
Load the Menu.m2v and menu.ac3 into the Menu. Draw a square around each of the 4 episode numbers (these are now your buttons), in the Menu Advanced settings tab, hit the Auto Assign button, then in Playback control hit Loop, then in Color Mapping tab, click the small Brown button with 8 on it and change to colur of choice. I used Blue at a setting of 5.
Now load all the 4 episodes and their ac3 audio tracks into Maestro as per Tute but now move Episode 1 to Movie1 timeline, Episode 2 to Movie2 timeline, etc... and load their Chapters file in. Load the small Intro movie & ac3 into Movie5 and mark a chapter as close to end of the movie as possible.
Now comes the fun part, setting up the Connections. For First Play set it to Movie5 (the intro), menu to Menu1 (Button 1). Now for the End Action for the last chapter in Movie5, set this to Menu1 (Button 1) - This means start playing the Intro movie and when it ends automatically run the Menu. For the End Action of the last chapter on Movie1, set that to Menu1 (Button 1). End Action of the last chapter on Movie2, set that to Menu1 (Button 2), etc. For Menu1:Button 1, set this to Movie1:Chapter 00:00:00:00 For Menu1:Button 2, set this to Movie2:Chapter 00:00:00:00, etc.
Compile. You then end up with a dvd at about 4.30gig with a starting intro flyby sequence, then a selection menu that loops until you make a selection. When you make a selection it plays the episode and when it finishes it jumps back to the Menu ready for you to select another. All original menus, original chapters and almost original movie (quaility wise) with 6ch ac3 audio only.
I hope I havent left anything out. Let us know how you get on.
