How to Combine Videos From Multiple DVDs

Posted by: MVP MrChuck
Level: Intermediate
Application: Nero Recode

Do you have scattered data, videos, music and photo discs taking up space in your office or home? If so, it’s time to condense your DVDs into one “Master” DVD with the award winning Nero 8 ! Today we're going to see how Nero 8 can take three favorite videos from three different DVD discs and combine them on one new playable DVD.

Enjoy…..

• Insert one of several discs into your drive.
• Open Nero’s Recode 3.
• Click “Recode Entire DVD to DVD”

TIP: If you have multiple optical drives you can skip this process and jump down to the next section but be warned, you will need as many drives as you have discs to combine.

• Click Import DVD
• Select your DVD drive
• Click OK (The disc loads into Nero Recode)
• Click Next

• Set your destination (type) as HARD DISK FOLDER
• Set your target folder by clicking Browse and setting up a unique folder name.
• Click BURN at the bottom right.
• Repeat this process with a new folder name for every disc you wish to use in this project.

• Open Nero Recode 3
• Click “Compile DVD”

• Click Import Titles

• Browse to the first disc and double click the folder containing the video_ts

• You will now see all titles available.
• Select a title by single clicking it.
• Click Add Title.
  
  TIP: You may select more than one title from the disc by holding down the Ctrl key as you select or click titles. Do not worry if the amount of space exceeds a single disc. You will have the chance to trim later. Also remember Nero Recode can compress the videos to offer that extra bit of room you may need.
• Notice my 1st row reads season-1, disc-1, title 1.

• Browse and select another disc.
• Again the disc loads and I can pick another title.
• This time, I’ll pick title 7 from season-3-disc 4

Notice on the far right the quality is still 100% or no compression. If my videos were longer I might see 95%. You can easily permit the quality to drop down to 80% with no noticeable loss of quality.

In this case, I wish to make my video shorter. I just want to remove the credits for easier viewing.

To do this…

• Click a title below “My Disc”
• Click Trim Movie.

The Trim Movie window pops open.

I can now use the navigation buttons to display the last frame and/or first frame so as to trim off the front and back of the video. In my case I will cut the credits off of the first episode.

• Click OK and NEXT.

TIP:  We’ve all seen TV episodes that end “to be continued”
Well, by using this process, I could easily combine the two episodes into a single flowing episode by removing the credits from the first episode and removing the “reminder scenes and opening credits of the second episode.

• Set the Destination as HARD DISK FOLDER.
• Set your TARGET as a new folder.
• Click Browse.
• Click “Make New Folder”.
• Type a folder name.
• Click OK.

TIP: I suggest completing the project on the hard drive and then burning to a disc later. This speeds up the process and keeps your project fluid until you are ready to burn it to a DVD+R.

• The upper left area is ready.
• Now click MORE at the bottom left.
• This reveals some hidden options.
• Set your Priority to “Above Normal”.
  Doing this is not required but can speed up the process.
• Click BURN.
• Recode starts the burn process.

We have just combined 3 videos from 3 discs on to a single final DVD.