when you rip a movie only, and find that it is about 100mb too big. I Load the M2V file in to Vobsplitter and cut off about 100-150mb of the end titles.

saves hours of rempeg encoding time. and on most dvd,s the end Titles go on for 5-10 minutes, so you will still end up with the main credits.

I have done it with my Last 2 movies, and it works a treat.

not a bad idea that it
theres probably other stuff that could be ripped out as well reducing file sizes

I seemed to be getting plenty of movies around 4.2gb and no room for menu,s in spruce.

then wondered if cutting some end titles off would still work, it did, and now save hours messing about with Rempeg.

takes about 10 minutes for Vobsplitter to do the cutting, import the lot in spruce, hey presto original sound and picture, minus about half the the useles end titles, the main credits usually are first to be shown as well, so cutting out the crap from the back is,nt a problem.

Good ****in idea man ... Im now searching for vobsplitter... ive wasted many hours when i could have just cut off some of the B.S. end credits that nobody cares about.

Thks for the tip Deathstar, you just saved me hours of re-encoding cause I mis-calulated my downsize of a film in ReMPEG2.
:)

Glad To help you guys.

Where can we get vobsplitter...?
Thanks.

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/vobsplitter.html

Hi mate...could you please help me out...
In your tip you mention loading the m2v file into vobslitter...ok.
Then cutting off 100-150meg of the credits...How can I work out 100-150 meg ie can I watch it up until the main credits then make a note of the frame no.?ifso how...?
Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question...could you let me know in detail....
Also when you cut the m2v file;don't you have to also cut the ac3 file...?

Sunny3
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Originally posted by sunny3
Hi mate...could you please help me out...
In your tip you mention loading the m2v file into vobslitter...ok.
Then cutting off 100-150meg of the credits...How can I work out 100-150 meg ie can I watch it up until the main credits then make a note of the frame no.?ifso how...?
Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question...could you let me know in detail....
Also when you cut the m2v file;don't you have to also cut the ac3 file...?

Ditto:
Thanks for the tip, but could you elaborate on the technique, by answering the two questions sunny3 asked (i.e. what about cutting ac3 and how do you determine what 100 - 150 megs.

Thanks again!

Load your file on the first tab, you have to select all file tyes or you cant see the M2V

Then there are 2 slider bars,, slide the bottom one over to the right hand side as far as it will go, then you will see the blue progress style bar. the numbers appear in Kilobytes rather than megabytes

but all you have to do is use the first 3 numbers as your guide

as an example if tour M2v file is 499993300 kbytes that in megabytes is 4 thousand --nine hundred and ninety nine,
look at the first 3 numbers 499

do you get it
if your M2v file was 6666666000 kbytes it would be thousand six hundred and sixty six megabytes
just dont bother using the Last six noughts in the Kilobyte number

so you would have to move the slider back to 4100000000 so that the M2v file would fit on the dvdr disc

as for the AC3 file I dont cut it at all, and load the M2V and AC3 File into spruceup and carry on from there, and have had no sound sync issues

I presume thet when the 2 files are mixed back together in spruce, the sound might carry on for a minute or 2 with no picture at the end???.
I dont bother reading the end credits so I hav,nt checked.

but at the end of the day I think its a very quick and easy method of chopping a couple of hundred megs of a movie, if its only just too big to fit on the disc

now if you were to chop 150megs off the front of your vobs, things would not work out so good. you would have major out of sync sound issues.
Happy Burning

Great thanks for the details Deathstar,
and the confirmation that the .ac3 file can remain untouched!

I guess your theory makes sense about the audio simply continuing -
I have sometimes had video and audio file length differences of about 5 seconds or more when importing my files into my authring software.
There has never been a sync problem upon playback.

I am looking forward to saving about 6 hours for each of my movies
that I consider valuable enough to back up.

Yeah thanks for the great tip Deathstar:)

Top Tip m8.

well thought of !!

Thx Deathstar - You saved me a lot of trouble. I encoded fight club and it was only 40MB to large with the audio added. I was going to pull my hair out until I did a quick search.,