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whipshock,
Here's the blow by blow for joining side a with side b of a flipper disc with DvdReMake. Of course you need to rip both sides to your hard drive first w/Decrypter. Make sure you're using advanced mode in Remake.
1. Import side a as project 1 into DVDRemake Pro
2. Import side b as project 2 into DVDRemake Pro
3. Select project 1, click on "Window" in the menu bar, click on "tile".
4. Select VTS 1 from side b (which should be project 2), right-click, and "copy VTS".
5. Select "DVD" from side a (which should be project 1), right-click, and "add copied VTS".
6. Close the project 2 window.
7. Expand Video Manager and then Menus.
8. Select VMG Titles, right-click in the VMG title window, and "add title" selecting the newly added VTS and title 1.
8. Right-click Menus and add 3 new menu PGCs. You should now have a PGC 3, PGC 4, and PGC 5.
9. Click on PGC 3. Select the "Pre Commands" tab in the window to the right. Right-click in the window and "add command". Edit the command to "Jump VMG Title 3". (This is the navigation to continue playing side "b"s VTS).
10. Click on PGC 4. Select the "Pre Commands" tab. Right-click and "add command". Edit the command to "Jump VTS 1 "root" menu (title 1)". (This is the navigation to return to the root menu of the side "a" VTS)
11. Click on PGC 5. Select the "Pre Commands" tab. Right-click and "add command". Edit the command to "Jump VTS 2 "root" menu (title 1)". (This is the navigation to jump to the side "b" VTS root menu).
12. Expand Video Title Set 1. Expand Menus. Select Menus. In the video window to the right, double click on the "Film Flash" button. Click on the (...) button. Edit the command to "Jump VMG PGC 5". (This is where we pass commands to the VMG menu section to route navigation to the side "b" root menu).
13. Expand Program Chains and select PGC 1. Select the "Post Commands" tab. Edit or replace the existing command to "Call VMG PGC 3 (resume cell 1)". (This is where we pass commands to the VMG menu section to route navigation to continue playing the side "b" VTS).
14. Expand Video Title Set 2. Expand Menus. Select Menus. In the video window to the right, double click on the "Film Flash" button. Click on the (...) button. Edit the command to "Jump VMG PGC 4". (This is where we pass commands to the VMG menu section to route navigation to the side "a" root menu).
15. Expand Program Chains and select PGC 1. Select the "Post Commands" tab. Edit or replace the existing command to "Call VMG PGC 4 (resume cell 1)". (This is where we pass commands to the VMG menu section to route navigation to the side "b" VTS root menu).
16. Save your project. Export a test dvd. Play it back in Mark's DVD Tray Player to make sure everything runs as you expect it to.
17. Export full dvd when you are satisfied and then process it in DVDShrink, Recode, Copy 3, RB/CCE or any other compression app of your choice to fit on a 4.7 gig blank dvd.
17. Burn to your favorite media when you are satisfied with the playback.
When you complete these steps, the DVD should start at the beginning of the movie (just the way this movie starts). When it reaches the end of disc a, it will continue playing disc b. If you press your remote's root menu button while playing side a and select the "Flash Film" menu button, it will switch you to the root menu of disc b. (Both menus are exactly the same so you will think that nothing happened when you selected this button. But if you select the "scenes" button you will see the chapters for disc b). If you press your remote's root menu button while playing side b and select the "Flash Film" button, you will be returned to the side a root menu. Same thing applies here. Select the scenes button and you will see chapter selections for side a. When the movie reaches the end without any interruptions, it will be sent back to the root menu of side a for you to choose "Play Movie" or select chapters or languages.
After you use it a little you'll get the hang of what's going on, you can do some further improvising and add more buttons for extra scene selections.
The "merge Dvd"s" function under tools also allows joining multiple discs. It provides it's own menu(which you can customize for your own preferences) which enables you to choose which movie or file you wish to go to, each with its own original menu.
This option would not have worked for what I wanted to do with the flipper disc as i only wanted one menu(the original) to work with a seamless movie to duplicate a normal DVD 9 movie w/ one menu and bonus features. For me, doing it by the method above was more what I wanted, there would be no need to join the flipper if you still had a break in the movie and had to choose the next menu to operate the other side.
However this feature is great for joining multiple files (or discs) with different shows, movies, or programs, etc. on one disc, and much easier to use than actually going into the DVD structure using advanced mode. And it only takes about 20 minutes using this method.
Let us know how it went.
ENJOY!
 GO VOLS !This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 17. June 2005 @ 20:45
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