Adding Chapters and Menus to VTS Folder?

Hello
I have a DVD that was copied from a VHS tape.
Its a concert video without menus or chapter breaks.
I want to have each song be a chapter so how do I break it
up? I don't even know what software to use...I have DVD Studio Pro 3 and Final Cut Pro.
Thanks for reading

The content on the VHS tape was recorded from the broadcast of a concert that originally aired on MTV way back in 1983..It may very well have been copyrighted, but I thought recording programming for personal use was legal?
Basically, yes it is copyrighted.
Recording for personal use, well that is a bit complicated. Time shifting/space shifting is permitted.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/USCopyrightLaw (take a look at the Contributory and vicarious infringement section)
And the landmark case itself
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=464&invol=417
Some interesting reading material about how time shifting is getting changed a bit
http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6650194.html
Take a look here for some more info
http://www.ipjustice.org/IPJ1201Comments.shtml
I always thought duplication for the purpose of distribution constitutes infringement....
That one would be infringement but it does not mean others things are not infringement. Some things can clearly constitute criminal infringement as noted in the items above.
But there is alot of gray areas also.
MTV from 1983 - cool (liked the music from back then). But I am not sure if answering anymore somehow would violate the terms of this board.

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