How can I Modify a menu after I burned the DVD

[woodol]

Sorry for my english, I'm French

I work on VS9 with the last patch

I have create a DVD with menus.
I encoded the file (not me but the PC )
I burned the DVD without making a save as the folder VIDEO_TS but I think It is not important

There is a problem on my menus : I put a sound (a music file .wav) on each menus and sub-menus
When I read the DVD, in the menu, I think there is a little animation on the different chapters (pictures) because the border of each photos of each chapters is highlighting.
So, the sound is only 2 sec long... I thing it is the time of the animation of the borders.. (I dont remember the name of the option but "animation menu" or "animated template" is not checked, this option is above the path of image background and musik background)

What I want :
Just modify my menu withoout re-doing the encodage...

Is it possible to re-import the menus and the "film" of the DVD in ULEAD in order to modify the menu without re-encoding ?
Or does exist a way to modify the chapters on the DVD (perhaps creating the new chapters'files and replacing them on the DVD ??? but how ?)

Thanx, I dont have found an answer in the board...
Sorry for my english and this "long" post

[PeterMilliken]

That's OK mate - I don't speak English either (Australian is my native tongue - I've never been good with languages, I managed to learn American and Canadian after a while - but that was only because I lived in both countries for a couple of years each and let me tell you it wasn't easy at times!). You have made your problem clear

Unfortunately you have to re-render the project if you are making any menu changes i.e. go back to your project, modify the menu to suit your new requirements and then re-render. There is no way to modify the existing content of the DVD.

I would recommend rather than burning to disc, that you select the DVD Folders file option - then you can view the movie with some standard player on your computer and make any further modifications as required before committing to disc. The other alternative is to write to an RW disc and then you haven't lost a disc

Hope this helps,
Peter

[Ken Berry]

Just to vary Peter's advice a little (sorry Peter!!!), it depends whether or not you saved your burning project before actually burning it to disc. Unfortunately, VS9 and its predecessors are rather clunky about this (c'est tout a fait maladroit!). When you open the burning module, you insert your (hopefully) DVD-compliant mpeg-2 files, create your chapters and menus, and make sure you check the box 'Do not convert compliant mpeg files' in the Options box in the bottom left of the burning screen. Before actually moving to the final screen where you select whether you want to burn to disc, create a disc image (ISO) or video folder (Video_TS), you can save your burning project, including all the menu settings you have made, by closing the burning module and selecting 'Oui' when you are asked whether you want to save the settings. Then you open the burning module again, and select the burning project and proceed to the final page.

C'est a dire, if you have followed this procedure, and after burning a disc, discover you don't like the menu, then you can simply go back, re-open the burning project and adjust the part of the menu you did not like. Then you can burn another disc (or ISO or Video_TS -- which would save you wasting another disc if something else went wrong!!) If you have indeed used DVD-compliant mpeg-2 files, and have ticked the Options box I mentioned ci-dessus, then in fact in producing the second disc with corrected menu, you will NOT be re-rendering the mpeg-2 files, just multiplexing the project again, which is (as I understand it) quite different. Eh bien, voila! Bonne chance!! (Et je m'excuse de ne pas avoir eu la possibilité d'utiliser l'accent grave sur les 'a' de 'voila', 'tout a fait' et 'c'est a dire'!!!)

[THoff]

Also, check out the option to save the video in the "Fast Editable" format when you burn the DVD -- it's in the Options dialog.

From the manual:

* Ulead VideoStudio provides an option, DVD-Video (fast editable), that allows you to still use the industrial standard DVDVideo format, however, it will only burn the necessary files you need so you can edit your video content (e.g. menus) in the future.

This option saves time in copying files and hard drive space when you edit the contents of your disc again but may result in your disc not being compatible with some DVD players.

* If DVD-Video (fast editable) is selected, options in the Output Advanced Settings dialog box such as Include personal folder to disc will not be available.

* If DVD-Video (fast editable) is selected, keep in mind that there is a 30MB file size limitation for menus, background audio and project file combined. Audio files have larger file sizes and therefore it takes up the bulk of this file size limitation. Reduce the file size of your audio (e.g. shorter length) if you plan to have a lot of menus.

To make sure that the video is compatible, select Max 30MB menus for set-top DVD+VR recorder in the Preferences dialog box. (See Preferences (Create Disc) on page 167).

* If you choose DVD-Video, you will be using the industrial standard DVD-Video format for maximum compatibility. However, you cannot enjoy the advantages brought by the DVD-Video (fast editable) option.