Over the years people have created DVDs for the trading community that included two to three concerts on one disc. Sometimes they are from tours that are a decade apart. On occasion, there have been more than one artist on a particular DVD. Does anyone know of basic DVD editing software that allows you to split a DVD into two or three separate DVDs?

As you can tell, I don't know anything about DVD editing software. Just curious if someone could point me in the right direction.

Thanks

There's no way to "re-edit" a DVD per se, but you can reverse engineer DVDs and then re-author the contents to a new disc. MPEG Streamclip (http://www.squared5.com) is the best tool to use to losslessly convert the VOB files from of a DVD to another format, which can then be used by another program to author a new DVD.

The key is to convert the material without re-encoding, i.e. going from .VOB to MPEG or m2v & AC3, and buld a new DVD in another DVD authoring program, such as Adobe Encore or Apple's DVD Studio Pro. As soon as you re-encode the material, though, you lose quality, much like you would lose a generation by copying an analog tape.

post #666, Jason. You'd best stop right there.

I stopped at 6666 for like a year.

And somewhat mysteriously, too, from what I remember.

Great help post too Jason.

Thanks Jason!!

This is proving to be a very helpful thread for DVD-authoring novices like me

Does anyone know if any programs are able crop black borders from mpeg files without re-encoding? Google has thus far failed me on this one...

If you change how the video looks at all, it must be re-encoded. So, no, there are no programs that can do what you're asking.