SPECIAL PROJECT: Re-Edit DVD already edited and burned...

TDE

TDE

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Hey guys, check this out. Experts please!

We have a racing video system installed in our race-cars here at the track. The system is three cameras hooked up to a computer and a hard-drive.

We send the hard drive to the company that produces the DVD's, they take the footage (AVI Format) and put it into a template with some flashy graphics and animations.

The final product shows all three screens at the same time, while also showing a digital animation of the speedometer that is accurate to what is being shown on the video, as well as a small dot that moves around a scale drawing of the track, also synchronized with the video.

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Recently, we entertained the billion dollar CEO of a fortune 500 company, and in the recording, our DRIVER called this man by the wrong time, 3 times in a 15 minute span. Now, watching it, I don't think the CEO realized, but its painfully obvious in the DVD.

My CEO does not want us to send him this DVD. Its to embarrassing for us as a company.

I have the final product, and thats it. What would normally go straight out of the envelope to a customers DVD player.

What options, if any, do I have to somehow get this to a way I can edit out the audio when he calls him by the wrong name, re-render, and re-burn to a new DVD, not telling the customer, and him never knowing the difference?

Still with me?

Only the collective genius of the DVX forums can help me now!
 
It is possible to rip the video off the DVD - but I'm not sure if there is any way to rip and REAUTHOR a DVD, which is essentially what you would need to do (menus, graphics, animation, etc).

Any change you could reedit the video and then send it back to the company that made the DVD for you so they can plug the new video in and burn you a new copy?
 
Luis Caffesse said:
It is possible to rip the video off the DVD - but I'm not sure if there is any way to rip and REAUTHOR a DVD, which is essentially what you would need to do (menus, graphics, animation, etc).

Any change you could reedit the video and then send it back to the company that made the DVD for you so they can plug the new video in and burn you a new copy?
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Already tried that.

I got ahold of the original on the harddrive. But when I opened it in vegas, I had NO AUDIO...

I dont know if its embedded somehow or what!!!
 
David Jimerson said:
The original what?
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The original files.

When we pull the harddrive out of the cars, and before we send it to the company, the AVI files ares saved in folders corresponding with the customers order.

Once, I opened them up in WMP and they played, but NO audio...

The 3 camera angels were side by side with the last 1/4 area of the SD format screen being just plain blue...

I guess when they get the files, the SEPARATE the 3 video angels, and rearrange them into the much better template that the CUSTOMER sees in the finished product.

I guess, somewhere in all that mess, the audio is embedded. So is, somehow, GPS data that tells you where the car is on the track, and its EXACT MPH as well... all synced with the video...

I wish I could just show you guys... :(

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THATS what it looks like RAW, right off the harddrive after an event! The harddrive will typically have 15-100 folders with these files inside of them, one, AVI file, with these 3 angles.

When I pull this file into VEGAS, I see no audio track!! Crazy! Thats the only file in the folder...

But when we get the DVD back from them, there is AUDIO and the DVD is pretty professional looking...
 
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I think that the DVD contains only a final movie (the final composite of all of the camera angles, gps and speedometer data). You can insert the DVD into a computer and rip that main movie to a Quicktime DV file using Cinematize (or other DVD ripper) then bring it in to Final Cut or Vegas and edit the bad audio out. Then export that new movie and send it back to the DVD company for them to reauthor with their original menus. Does the final product have any menus to it, or does it just play the race when you insert it? If it is just an 'insert and play' DVD with no menus, you could probably burn a new one yourself.

I just saw the new "Pro" version of Cinematize:

http://www.miraizon.com/products/cine2profeatures.html

Click on the link and see if this is what you need to do..
 
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presuming you can rip the sound and video from the DVD, that then leads to the next problem - replacing the spoken wrong name with the correct name. some obvious possible problems:
- is your driver available to rerecord his words?
- under what conditions were the original words spoken - during driving I presume? so there'll be big background noise for you to try to match as well as the words (which were quite possibly yelled over the engine noise)

Id be very tempted to look at fixing the problem in editing, via muffling the 'bad' name with engine revving etc (whether that's a sensible option will depend entirely on what kind of background noise there is on the rest of the soundtrack), or simply editing out (video and audio) the moments where the 'bad' name is spoken - unless the whole film is unbroken long shots, I'd have thought that would be the easier option. Yes, the correct name won't be heard either, but will that really be noticeable?
 
TDE said:
How would I tell!?
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You can use a utility like GSpot to tell you.

You don't want to convert the DVD to Quicktime; you'd want to use an app which converts it to DV .avi.

That is, if you were working from the DVD at all, which isn't your best bet; you won't get the best quality that way.

If you can work from the original files, that's by far the better way to do.
 
I cant work from the original files.

TELL ME, if I was to rip this DVD back into a format to where I could at least get rid of the sound parts, and then RIP IT BACK, with no menus, what program would I use?
 
TDE said:
I cant work from the original files.

TELL ME, if I was to rip this DVD back into a format to where I could at least get rid of the sound parts, and then RIP IT BACK, with no menus, what program would I use?
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Cinematize 2
http://www.miraizon.com/products/cine2profeatures.html

From the website: "Cinematize 2 Pro is the Ultimate DVD RE-Editing tool that lets you extract any piece of a DVD, be it an audio track, a video track, a subtitle, or a piece from a menu for reuse in your new DVD projects."
 
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