VTS Files

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VTS Files

I am trying to copy a portion of a previously burned DVD to a new DVD. The way I accomplish this is to use mgeg streamclip, and make a movie file, then use the movie file in iDVD.

The downside is you are uncompressing and then recompressing a video so many times the quality starts to degrade. Can you just take the VTS file and use those somehow so your not loosing any quality. I don't need to edit any portions of the series of files VTS 021.VOB - VTS 024.VOB

Anyone have any suggestions?

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Posted on Jul 16, 2007 9:45 AM

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Answer 1

F Shippey

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Jul 16, 2007 9:54 AM in response to Timothy Nordmann1

The downside is you are uncompressing and then recompressing a video so many times the quality starts to degrade.

No kidding 😉

Can you just take the VTS file and use those somehow so your not loosing any quality.

Nope - not in iMovie/iDVD. If you don't want 'fancy' menus, you can probably do what you want with Roxio's Toast Titanium.

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Answer 2

Jul 16, 2007 10:21 AM in response to F Shippey

I tinkered around a bit and I did get it to work. Here is the situation I had, and here is what I did.

I had an old DVD of a project I did 6 months ago containing two videos. I wanted to update the titles on the beginning of a short video, but wanted the second video to remain unchanged, so I used mpeg stream clip and made a file that I edited in final cut, then I took that file to iDVD to export a disk image . I then created a new folder to put to copy the contents of the old dvd(the video ts folder) then took the VTS file from that newly created disk image and swaped it with the old DVD VTS file and then took the whole thing and made a new disk image using DVD Imager.

The dvd is working great and I never had to uncompress and recompress the second portion of my DVD with no loss in quality

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