[Captain Egotist]

Okay... I have pirates of the carribean on DVD... good movie, except for the glaring god awful line by that chick :

"If you like pain, try wearing a corset!" smack.

UGH
MOAN
YUCK
AWFUL.

So I'd like to import the DVD somehow, edit the footage, remove those few seconds, then reauthor and burn a DVD. And no, I'm not a freak. A few other people who own the DVD are interested in a 'modded' version also.

What programs should I use for this? I was thinking handbrake.... then use quicktime to convert to .DV... then open in imovie.. .but it'd be nice to keep the same menus as the original.

Any ideas?

- Rob

[Jacke]

I had written out a wonderfully worded reply to this when iCab crashed as I was getting the necessary links, so here's the abbreviated, written-while-slightly-annoyed version.

Converting DVD -> DivX/MPEG-4 -> DV is quality killer. If you have the Quicktime MPEG-2 component you can use MPEG Streamclip to cut out what you don't want, there is a free mpeg editor called mpgtx (search VT), but I don't know if it's reliable.

The menu's are hard, no good editors on OS X, direct copy (of the .ifo files etc.) may/may not work, might need to have the title in the same number of pieces as on DVD disc.

Don't forget the 4.something GB limit on DVDs, unless you have DL media + burner.

[Captain Egotist]

Hrm.

Dang. That sounds like a lot of things I don't have.