Episodal Disc Problems

Hi all. I'm trying to back-up Red Dwarf Series 4 using the big 3. My plan is to have the first 3 episodes on DVD1 and thelast 3 episodes on DVD2. I have done this many times before and it has worked fine because all I've done is unchecked the first 3 PGC's or the last 3 PGC's as required and then authored it as normal. I'm stuck with this one though as The structure of the DVD is made up of 1 Big PGC made up of all 6 episodes and it has 6 more PGC's, 1 each for each episode. When I uncheck the first 3 or the last 3 "Episode" PGC's without checking the Main PGC, scenarist won't let me do it. I guess what I'm trying to say is, does anyone know of a good guide for doing this as I'm finding that more and more episode DVD are being structured like this. I'm sure that it is possible to do it, I just need someone to show me how. I guess that the reason for the One big PGC is so that you can selct to play all in the menu. I would insert a screenshot for you but I don't know how to do that. Sorry If anyone can help me out here I would be most sincerely gratefull. Thanx

Expanding on what OvERaCiD23 said, what you could do is double the size of the total project (2 DVD-R) and then encode the entire PCG. Then when you open it up in Scenarist, leave the first 3 Episodes alone and then for the last three, replace them with a "dummy vob" that ReAuthorist creates in your DVD folder. Then build your project as usual, then reverse the process for the last 3 Episodes you want to encode. Something else you may want to try is to Rip the entire PCG and then when you open it up in ReAuthorist, just uncheck the last three Episodes for the first round, then repeat it for the last 3 episodes the 2nd time around. The way I take it is that you unchecked them in DIF4U, but maybe if you do it in ReAuthorist it would work.

No sorry, that still doesn't work. Scenarist won't have it at all. There must be an IFO editing way of doing it. Somebody Help Me! pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze;)

Sounds like waht your referring to is a "all play" where PGC1 actually has all episodes in it and the other PGC's just reference cells in PGC1.

Exactly mate.How do I get round it please!!!!!!:)

So know ones got any work arounds then?

Think I've got it now 

OK, I've stumbled accross a program that looks like it's gonna be able to do it easily. DVDReMake. I've only tried the demo so I haven't exported it yet but I've set-up the DVD to the way I want it and it seems like it will have no problem at all. It should just hide the blocks from the latter 3 episodes on disc one but retain the full working menus and vice versa on disc 2. Is there anyone out there that can back me up with my theory. I don't wanna buy it for it not to work. Thanx This may also help on those other hard to back-up dvd's like 24 season 2 and The Sopranos etc