Advice- DVD authoring - help!!
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Questions later... here's the chat:
As some of you know, I kick out charity suff in the Highlands each year. Last year was a CD Rom/Screen Saver/You get the idea/thing. Makes shed loads for WWF Scotland and Torridon Mountain Rescue.
So, a good thing I hope.
This year I'm embarking on a 'Drive through the Highlands' DVD with photos and video of drives through Scotland, with footage from the 911tt/R500/RS6 (It's a tough job but someone has to do it).
...Thing is, I either need some sort of software to make a 'front end' for a DVD or need an address of some clever people who will sort it for me (at reasonable cost).
Any ideas?
To give you an idea of what I'm up to, I've been doing '3 camera shoots' in the lake district over the past few days, to try out the tech... and FYI here is a VERY SQUASHED/CUT DOWN wmv:
www.stevecarter.com/HonisterWeb.wmv
This is 4.5 mb /90 seconds/320x240 file from a 5 min 875 mb full screen file, so video/audio cuts are nasty. No really.
...anyway.... got any ideas folks? I'm after either 'do it yourself DVD menu software' (been looking but can't find decent stuff) or people that will do 5 x 750 mb AVI vids onto DVD with a menu.
Ta
Steve
Questions later... here's the chat:
As some of you know, I kick out charity suff in the Highlands each year. Last year was a CD Rom/Screen Saver/You get the idea/thing. Makes shed loads for WWF Scotland and Torridon Mountain Rescue.
So, a good thing I hope.
This year I'm embarking on a 'Drive through the Highlands' DVD with photos and video of drives through Scotland, with footage from the 911tt/R500/RS6 (It's a tough job but someone has to do it).
...Thing is, I either need some sort of software to make a 'front end' for a DVD or need an address of some clever people who will sort it for me (at reasonable cost).
Any ideas?
To give you an idea of what I'm up to, I've been doing '3 camera shoots' in the lake district over the past few days, to try out the tech... and FYI here is a VERY SQUASHED/CUT DOWN wmv:
www.stevecarter.com/HonisterWeb.wmv
This is 4.5 mb /90 seconds/320x240 file from a 5 min 875 mb full screen file, so video/audio cuts are nasty. No really.
...anyway.... got any ideas folks? I'm after either 'do it yourself DVD menu software' (been looking but can't find decent stuff) or people that will do 5 x 750 mb AVI vids onto DVD with a menu.
Ta
Steve
Nero Showtime along with the DVD and MPEG2 Plugins will do what you need. I'm sure it's available for download if you want to "make sure it's right for you".
Otherwise most video capture cards that you can purchase (for about 20 quid) will come with DVD and video authoring software, which does the same job.
I tend to use Nero myself for making DVDs - you simply give it the video files, choose your menu template, background, menu music, etc etc - it does the rest for you.
Otherwise most video capture cards that you can purchase (for about 20 quid) will come with DVD and video authoring software, which does the same job.
I tend to use Nero myself for making DVDs - you simply give it the video files, choose your menu template, background, menu music, etc etc - it does the rest for you.
Cracking clip Steve.
I use Pinnacle Studio 8/9, which has inbuilt authoring.
Make the video, using whatever you use to make the video (Studio does that too - but I guess you're beyond that), then, using .avi or .mpg create your whole 'disk'. There are various in built templates, but you'll want to design your own....so you can use your own still image or video clip for the background, add whatever sound track (if you wish) to play while the menu is on. You can either have still images showing you the chapters, or tell Studio to use motion chapters. You choose (or set to auto) where to create the chapters. Its really easy.
Once done, choose create DVD, set your quality (max time, or max quality), and it will happily get your machine running at 100% for a few hours while it converts it to mpeg2 for DVD, which can be set to produce file, but burn later, or burn straight away.
And its cheap too.
HTH
LB
I use Pinnacle Studio 8/9, which has inbuilt authoring.
Make the video, using whatever you use to make the video (Studio does that too - but I guess you're beyond that), then, using .avi or .mpg create your whole 'disk'. There are various in built templates, but you'll want to design your own....so you can use your own still image or video clip for the background, add whatever sound track (if you wish) to play while the menu is on. You can either have still images showing you the chapters, or tell Studio to use motion chapters. You choose (or set to auto) where to create the chapters. Its really easy.
Once done, choose create DVD, set your quality (max time, or max quality), and it will happily get your machine running at 100% for a few hours while it converts it to mpeg2 for DVD, which can be set to produce file, but burn later, or burn straight away.
And its cheap too.
HTH
LB
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