Re: DVD Menu

Now why did I not think of doing that. I will have to invest in some more
advanced technologu than Ihave at this moment.




A felt tip pen :) :)

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


"Wojo" <wojo@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:t0wze.12$Zy6.6@xxxxxxxxxxx
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> "John Kelly" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.
>
> Common practice for me is to date the DVD.
> I plan to transfer to a new DVD when the date reaches the 5 year mark (I
> don't use cheap DVD's)
>
>>
>> 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
>
> Most of the better DVD authoring tools give you the choice of setting it
> up to go to the next clip or to go back to the menu. But I will also say
> that creating chapter points is easy to do and doing so with separate
> clips does not create a seemless video there is an obvious pause between
> clips when using separate clips at least with all the programs I have
> used.
>
>>
>> Best Wishes.....John Kelly
>> www.the-kellys.org
>>
>> Sorry, I am not an Instant Expert
>>
>> "Steve" <Steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:8D7B0BA4-A477-4A31-B4F9-6314A402ACD3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>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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>


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