? About converting a 2-disc movie ...

Ok, so I have finally been able to convert movies to a format acceptable to use with my little 5th Gen Video iPod. Now, I have another question though. How do you convert a single movie that is on 2 discs so that it is one continuous movie and isn't split into 2 parts?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanx!

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Hope this helps.
1. Empty Trash.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10677
2. Start up in Safe Mode
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212
3. Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.
    Hold the option key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.
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    Empty Trash. Restart.
4. Repair Disk
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    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836
5. Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots
   http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878
6. Re-index Macintosh HD
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   http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409
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I had the same issue, however I used this program to transfer ...avi,mpg,wma..etc...;
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/
I'm pasting this from the Videora site, the settings worked for me when others didn't, enjoy:
Configuring videora converter
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profile name: ipod
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passes: one
bitrate: 768 kbps (384 kbps also works)
framerate: 29.97 fps
in the audio settings section...
bitrate: 128 kbps
sample rate: Input
channels: stereo
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5) Click start.
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is Insert Video icon above this text box but it is grayed out and not usable.
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#38-P2 - Missing LASTCLIP.txt file. How to rebuild.
Shane's Stock Answer #38 - When you offloaded the P2 cards, you forgot to get the LASTCLIP.tct file? No worries, not all is lost.
MISSING LASTCLIP.TXT FILE:
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=58755
If you neglected to copy the "lastclip.txt" file all is not lost. Much like the six million dollar man, we can rebuild him.
Lastclip.txt can be generated by any text editor. If you are using a mac then open up textedit.
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Take this name and place in the first line of your text file. On the next line of the text file type in "1.0" (don't include the quotes).
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0016ab.mxf
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I'm french too, but I'm going to write this post in english so that everyone may understand it
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I'm kinda new to editing and I'm working on a project here using PP CS3 and a lot of footage in .vob file format.
I've read some posts in this forum, and I know that a lot of people have problems importing .vob files and that a lot of users recommend using Premiere Elements.
Now that is for a few reasons not an option for me, and I've kinda had a good expercience importing .vob files via the Avisynth method, which really works perfectly (no red frames, etc.) - BUT PP starts crashing when exporting a project bigger than 2-3 min using those .vob files...
That does not happen when I use .avi (or other) footage...
I've read in other posts that people recommend converting the .vob files to (uncompressed) .avi - and I tried that, but it seems to me - just looking at the footage - that the quality is slightly worse...
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Harm,
thanx for your reply.
The footage was given to me in .vob file format, so I can't play it through the camera...
And coming back to the Apple Juice ;), I know that the quality did already take a hit that's why I'm (desperately) trying to keep the quality we have to start with...
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