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After I'm through editing the actual films themselves and have the files done, is there a way I can burn them to disc with the official menus?

So that when you put them in, the "real" menus come up, but hitting play takes you to my edit? (I assume you can disable the rest of the buttons, and possibly only have one "location menu" per disc.)
Thanks for you technical wizardry!

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I believe there is a program called DVD Remake that allows you to do this. I can't say I've ever used it, and you may need to crack it if you don't want to pay for it, but I think it will do what you want it to.

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My question is along the same lines...

I'd like to take an existing DVD (with a menu) and combine that material with new content on a new DVD. But I don't want to alter the menu of the existing DVD.

Let's say the disc I want to leave as-is is called Circuit City (as in the Apocalypse Now Complete Dossier Circuit City exclusive bonus third disc). So the newly created DVD would have a top menu from which you would select either "New Stuff" or "Circuit City". If "Circuit City" were selected, then the familiar menu that already exists on the CC disc would appear, with selectable content.

You follow me? Is this possible?

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Merging two DVDs is what this is called. DVD Remake does this: http://www.dimadsoft.com/dvdremakepro/ht_merge_full.php

I also noticed on the site that you could get a free fully-functional version of the software if you advertise it on your site.

Okay. This is good to know that it is possible to do!

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There is also programs called VOB Blanker and Pgcedit. I've used them and they work well.

Vob Blanker allows you to change the program that plays on the menu when you select it. Say you have the menu from an official DVD. You want to change make it play your version when you select "play movie". What you'd do is author a temp DVD with only that one item in a particualar title. Then you'd use vob blanker to change the ifo assoicated with the "play movie" function of the original DVD.

With PGC Edit, you can change what the buttons do and re-arrange things. You can add new buttons to the menus as well I think.
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Good information to know. Thanks!

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I have a question related to this. Is there any way to get original menu off the disc in a format that could be imported into DVDLabPro for editing?