Re: DVD Menu

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On the data backup etc I too keep i,portant stuff on the original tape as
well as creating a DVD for general use and one as an archive. None of it is
really old enough yet to worry about disc failure. I guess I will start
checkng for problems next year...a friend in the trade reports that some
DVD's can fail as early as 24months from date of manufacture. I hope he was
talking about the cheap stuff.

On using small video clips as individual files on a DVD so as to emulate
chapters...can you set an option to go to the next video at the end of one
of your clips/chapters or are you forced back to the main menu? Dazzle DVD
Complete lets you set a range of options at the end of a clip including
jumping to different menus etc. Nero has some of those...jump to next clip
is one of them

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org

Sorry, I am not an Instant Expert

"Steve" <Steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I haven't taken the route to buy a newer version of Nero (or upgrade MyDVD)
> to get all the bells and whistles of DVD authoring. Most of my videos are
> of
> my infant and toddler daughters. I capture small amounts at a time. This
> allows me many options.
>
> 1) Smaller less complicated movies in MM.
> 2) Smaller movies are brought into MyDVD (older version) and become
> chapters
> themselves.
> 3) The movies sizes are less than 5 GB so I am able to use data DVDs to
> back
> up the DV-AVI files. Yes it overkill (back up drive, back up data DVD,
> authored DVD, and the original tape). However you can never recover what
> you
> lose. Cant go back in time.
> 4) With all the issues some users have had with upgrades and new codecs
> etc,
> I'm not changing what works.
>
> May have drifted a bit off the point, but you can get around the chapter
> point creation if your authoring software is limited by making smaller
> movies
> and importing them separately. I use MyDVD v4.5. Good luck!
>
> Steve
>
> "John Kelly" wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Yes, you need to use DVD creation software...check the Help file
>>
>> You import the result of your editing from whatever program you used
>> to
>> create your video into the DVD softwrae and procedd from there.
>>
>> The program I and others find truly excelent is Nero from
>> www.nero.com
>>
>> There are free bits of software (best suited to the Nerds of this
>> world)
>> that will enable you to create a DVD, providing you are happy to go
>> through
>> the learning curve for each piece of software needed.....NEro is highly
>> capable and is able to produce more than one disk at a time if you have
>> the
>> necessary hardware. You can choose to use it as it comes or you can delve
>> deeper to find control options for the more advanced user...
>>
>> Best Wishes.....John Kelly
>> www.the-kellys.org
>>
>> NERDS do it in little pieces
>>
>>
>> "MrAnderson" <MrAnderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:5F82F5EE-1DD5-4D5C-8466-E48B960218B2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Is there any way to add a DVD Title menu to a Windows Movie maker file?
>> > I
>> > have recently acquired a DVD-RW Drive, and now I want to transfer all
>> > of
>> > the
>> > tapes from my DV camera onto dvd, but I want to be able to skip around
>> > to
>> > different segments of Digital Video, with out fast forwarding. Can
>> > anyone
>> > help?
>> > --
>> > 4
>>
>>
>>


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