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HOW TO BURN A SINGLE DVD WHERE THE ORIGINAL IS ON 2 DIFFERENT DISC. ALSO BURN A SINGLE DVD WHERE THE MOVIE IS SPLIT UP ON TWO DIFFERNT SIDES OF ORIGINAL.

***NOTE I USED THIS GUIDE TO MAKE A COPY OF THE MOVIE *GOODFELLAS* BY FOLLOWING THESE DIRECTIONS EXACTLY I GOT THE ENTIRE MOVIE WITH SOUND,, HOWEVER I DO NOT HAVE THE MAIN MENU OR SCENE SELECTION,,,YOU MAY BE ABLE TO KEEP THESE FUNCTIONS, IM NOT SURE.




The two programs we are going to use are DVD Shrink 3.1.7.6 and DVD Decrypter 3.2.1.0 Check and see if you have both of these program versions. Both are free.

The basic procedure will be to create two folders on your hard drive, disc 1 & disc 2, compile them using Shrink and then burning the compilation.
Shrink will utilize Decrypter's burn feature to do this. You will not have to open Decrypter, just make sure it is installed on your computer.

I'm assuming you have room on your hard drive for 3 4.36 GB folders. Make a folder on your hard drive called "movies". (Something like C:\ Movies)

Lets start!

Open Shrink 3.1.7.6
Click on Edit then Preferences and check the set up.

Preferences Tab:
Automatically open VIDEO_TS folders

Preview Tab:
Stereo
System Default Renderer

Output Tab:
First 4 boxes ticked

Stream Selection Tab:
Audio language and coding type:
All Languages AC3 or LCPM
Sub-picture language:
All Languages

File I/O Tab:
tick Enable Overlapped I/O
tick Check RPC 2 Drive Region Code
untick Enable Burning with Nero

Put disc 1 of the movie in your reader, select "Open Disc", toggle the menu to select your drive and select OK. Shrink will now analyze it.
If you have done this before, Shrink will use the results from the previous attempt.
Once this is completed, you will see on the left screen the DVD structure and on the right your compression settings for the Video, Audio and subpicture tick boxes.

At the top of the Shrink window, click on the Re-author tool bar button. A new screen appears with all the titles in the right window. Note at the top of the right window the two tabs, Compression settings and DVD Browser.
Look at all the titles, you are after the Main Movie. Drag it over into the left DVD Compilation window.
If there is two main movie titles that usually means one is wide screen and one is full screen.
Check by using the preview feature:
Highlite the title you want to look at by clicking on it. Right click on the preview window and select play. Notice in the menu there is also full screen and audio choices.
Now is a good time to see what they do.
Use the full screen option and then right click anywhere in the preview window. You can go back to the small window by unchecking the full screen option. Use the audio option to listen to the different audio tracks available. Take note of the one you want!
Once you have selected the main movie title and know what audio stream you want, go to the window on the right and click on the compression settings tab. Untick every box except the one with your chosen audio track. This includes unchecking all the subpicture boxes as well.
The audio stream I keep is usually the AC3 5.1, just make sure you listen to it using the preview window.

You can play with the start/end function (the arrows located at the upper right of the left screen) and trim the beginning if you want. Just don't trim the end of disc 1 or you will be missing part of your movie!
Lets back this thing up!

Select Backup! from the tool bar, your Backup DVD window opens with a bunch of tabs:

Target Device:
Select Target Device:
Hard Disk Folder
Select Target Folder for DVD Output Files:
Use the browse button and browse for your "Movies" folder, click on it and then click on the "make a new folder" button. Rename this folder "Gangs of NY Disc 1" and select OK.
We are still under the Target device tab so check the "create AUDIO and VIDEO_TS sub folders" box.

Next tab, DVD region:
check the make region free box

Backup Options:
Check the "Perform Deep Analysis" box this will take longer but improve quality.
Uncheck "Backup in Low Priority"
leave the rest as is.

Burn Settings:
Should have the name of your movie in the Volume Label box.

Now that thats done, select OK and Shrink will encode your movie to the selected location.

Once that is done, do the same thing with the second disc.
Make sure you select the main movie title with the same screen format. Select the same audio stream as well. Use the Start/End Feature to trim the end credits if you like, I would. When you select the target folder, make a second folder called gangs of NY Disc 2.

When this is completed you will have both discs in folders, ready for compilation and burning.

Lets make a compilation and burn it!

Open Shrink (If you did not close it after the first steps, close it and re-open!)

Lets go through the Edit> Preferences tabs again.

Preferences:
Target DVD size:
DVD-5
Check Automatically open VIDEO_TS subfolders.
The other two should be unchecked.

Preview:
As is.

Output Files:
1st four boxes checked.

Stream selections:
As is.

File I/O:
Check Enable overlapped I/O
Leave the rest unchecked.

Select OK for the Preferences.

Select Open Files from the tool bar, the browse for folder window opens. Use this to find your first folder, "Gangs of NY disc 1". Click on the folder and select OK. Disc 1 is now opened in Shrink's Full Disc window.

Select Re-author from the tool bar.

You should see just the main title on the right, drag it into the window on the left.

Locate the drop down menu on the right, its just below the compression settings and DVD Browser tabs, and click on the arrow box to open it. Use this to find the second disc files. Click on the folder, Gangs of NY disc 2 and again, the title will appear in the screen on the right. drag it into the window on the left.

It should look like this:

Title 1
Title 1 (2)

Thats the compilation!

Select Backup! from the tool bar.

The backup DVD window opens. We are going to burn with DVD Decrypter so change the Select Target Device to:
ISO Disc Image

Shrink should list a default location in the "select target image file" but you can make your own location if you like. Take note of the available space to insure that Shrink has enough space to work with.

Check the box next to ..launch DVD Decrypter to burn the output stage!

Under backup options tab, check the "deep analysis" box. This is optional, the feature allows Shrink to more accurately determine the required compression so less will be used, giving you better quality. It just takes longer.

Put your blank DVD into your burner and select OK at the bottom of the Backup DVD window. DVD Shrink and Decrypter will do the rest.
Shrink will encode both halves of the movie, perform the deep analysis, then open Decrypter and burn the disc.


Extra info:



There are all kinds of programs out there to rip, burn and/or re-author DVDs. It's very common to combine the functions or use the features of various individual programs to accomplish a specific goal.
A good example is the process I described earlier. Using Shrink to decrypt, compress and compile with Decrypter's burn feature we can end up with a DVD compilation on a disc.

Generally three things have to happen to get a DVD-9 on to a blank disc,

1. Decryption, removing the copy protection.

2. Compression, so it will fit on one blank disc.

3. Writing the files to a blank disc in a form that is DVD-Video compliant and will play in most players.

A few programs do all three most just do one or two.

DVD Decrypter can do #1 and #3. We used its #3 feature.

TMPGEnc DVD author fits in another category, sort of. It will burn a DVD but it's primary function is to author.

Heres a few more

Shrink does #1 and #2.
Nero Burning ROM does #3
Nero Recode 2 does #2 and #3.
AnyDVD sits in the background and does #1
DVD43 also sits in the background and does #1
CloneDVD does #2 and#3
DVDFab does #2 and #3.
The older versions of 321 studio Xcopy programs could do all three, the new versions have had the rip function removed.

There are programs that do very specific functions like Titleset Blanker, IFOEedit, Menuedit etc.

There are very expensive (and difficult) authoring programs like Adobe Encore DVD, Sonic Scenarist, Sonic Reel DVD and DV Storm.