Hi. I really need some help with TMPGEnc DVD Author. I'm trying to edit a recording of a television program. The two goals are to get rid of the commercials, but also to keep closed captioning. But DVD Author is not helping me at all. Version 3 edits perfectly, but does not keep closed captioning. Version 1 keeps closed captioning (or so I was informed), but does not edit well at all because it can only cut at 'I' frames (- which would force me to either sacrifice frames from the TV show or allow frames from the commercials, in certain edit places). Is there a version of TMPGEnc DVD Author that can do both tasks equally well? Thanks a million.
If this is an HDTV transport stream, it can be edited and saved as mpeg using HDTV2MPEG. The closed captions can be extracted to a .srt file using CCExtractor. I assume that TMPGenc can use the MPEG and the .srt file. If it was recorded on a DVD Recorder, I'm not sure if the CC's are preserved during the recording. #Edited for grammar.
Hi. Thank you very much for the advice. But CCExtractor asks me to install something else beforehand, and I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble. (It might not be able to capture closed captioning from the TV recordings, anyway. PowerDVD doesn't detect them, for instance.) Getting back to the issue, I'm looking for a version of TMPGEnc DVD Author (if it exists) that can keep the entire video signal intact (closed captioning, too) and insert chapters at every frame (B and P, too, not just I). NeroVision Express could do it, with the exact same inputs, but I'm not using that program anymore. Oh, and I'm not trying to rip the show to MPEG or AVI; I'm trying to re-author the show into another DVD structure (only without the commercials). The closed captioning is supposed to pop up when I watch the newly-created DVD-R on a regular DVD player connected to a TV set (not HD). Thank you.
