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[casfrustration]

I'm trying to combine 3 separate DVD dics of my son's game unto one DVD. The Dvd is not write protected...Is there anyway to do it using Creator 2009. Neither one of the dics is full therefore that is not a problem. The person created 3 dics when transferring from camcorder to DVD of one game. I thought i could use a DVD-RW+  combine unto 1. What can I do?

[myguggi]

I'm trying to combine 3 separate DVD dics of my son's game unto one DVD. The Dvd is not write protected...Is there anyway to do it using Creator 2009. Neither one of the dics is full therefore that is not a problem. The person created 3 dics when transferring from camcorder to DVD of one game. I thought i could use a DVD-RW+  combine unto 1. What can I do?

Just because a DVD is not full does not mean that you can combine all three DVDs onto one DVD. A standard 4.7GB DVD will only hold 60 minutes of video at best quality, any more and the video gets compressed with a resulting loss of quality.

Is the video on the 3 DVDs in sequence? Are the DVDs normal DVDds that you can play on a stand-alone DVD player or do they just contain the video as data files, ie files that have the extension mpg, or avi or wmv?

[casfrustration]

Just because a DVD is not full does not mean that you can combine all three DVDs onto one DVD. A standard 4.7GB DVD will only hold 60 minutes of video at best quality, any more and the video gets compressed with a resulting loss of quality.

Is the video on the 3 DVDs in sequence? Are the DVDs normal DVDds that you can play on a stand-alone DVD player or do they just contain the video as data files, ie files that have the extension mpg, or avi or wmv?

The video are in sequence on the DVDs. All three are able to play on a standalone DVD player as separate parts of one game. They are recordings of one high school football game that the person who recorded the video did not know how to transfer unto one DVD. If you add all three of the recordings together, they are not longer than 60 minutes in length nor are they more than 4.7 gb in size. If I have room would it be better to transfer the 3 to my hard drive than retransfer them to one DVD. Will that work? Or is there another way of doing it using the Creator 2009?  All I want to do is combine the 3 recordings into 1 recorded DVD. Is there anyway to do it?

[myguggi]

The video are in sequence on the DVDs. All three are able to play on a standalone DVD player as separate parts of one game. They are recordings of one high school football game that the person who recorded the video did not know how to transfer unto one DVD. If you add all three of the recordings together, they are not longer than 60 minutes in length nor are they more than 4.7 gb in size. If I have room would it be better to transfer the 3 to my hard drive than retransfer them to one DVD. Will that work? Or is there another way of doing it using the Creator 2009?  All I want to do is combine the 3 recordings into 1 recorded DVD. Is there anyway to do it?

In what format are the DVDs? Do they contain a Video_TS folder which in turn contains files with the extensions ifo, bup and vob? If not what extensions do the files on the DVD have?

Since the total length of all 3 DVDs is less then 60 minutes then you should be able to combine them on one DVD. Forget about file sizes when it comes to video, it is basically irrelevant.
If the DVDs are in the standard DVD format then you can do the following:
Create 3 folders on your hard drive called DVD 1, DVD 2 and DVD3
Copy the Video_TS folder from each DVD to one of the folders you created.
Launch myDVD and using Add Movie navigate to the DVD folders and select a vob file. DO this for each of the DVD folders. You should now have each of the video clips in your project and be able to burn to a single DVD.

I hope this is enough to get you started

[malatekid]

One way I could think of merging the three DVDs is described below. Others may offer some other ways.

Copy the content of each DVD to a new folder of its own on your hard drive (I assume you have XP as the OS). Then open Video Copy and Convert application and choose Compilation. Use the 3 folders as the sources of the compiled movies. This method will not copy the menu of the original DVD, jsut the movies.