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Posted by Voinin on 05/21/06 16:17
Bill Anderson wrote:
> Voinin wrote:
>> I have some TV shows (approximately 48 minutes each) in AVI format
>> (yes, I know AVI is a wrapper and not the actual format) and would
>> like to put them on DVDs that I can put in my player. What I'd
>> ideally like to do:
>>
>> 1) Place 4 episodes on each DVD.
>> 2) Divide each episode into chapters, corresponding to commercial
>> breaks.
>>
>> My question: What software can do this with the greatest of ease? It
>> doesn't have to be professional, but I would like it to look nice. I
>> don't know much about IFO structures and the like so I'd like to be
>> able to avoid doing that, but I'm willing to learn. Any suggestions?
>>
>
> I use Ulead DVD Workshop. It does everything you're asking for, I think.
> Build a main DVD menu page with submenus on a different DVD menu page
> for each of your episodes. Add chapters. Add background music for each
> of your menu pages. Capture frames to use as backgrounds. All that
> stuff. And you don't have to know a thing about IFO structures, as the
> software will build all that for you. You can burn directly to a disk
> or burn to an ISO file so you can see exactly how the final product will
> look before you waste a disk. It's a nice product.
>
> My Season 6 Sopranos DVDs look pretty good, if I do say so myself. I
> recommend four episodes to a disk, though you can put more if you
> compress. I get good results when I burn an ISO file that would be too
> big to burn to a disk, then use DVD2ONE to compress the resulting DVD
> files and burn the compressed files to DVD-R with Nero. DVD Workshop
> will compress too, I think, but I like my way better.
Well, I did one DVD with this and it's not too shabby. I do wish they
had a "snap-to-grid" option for the menu pages so that I could line
things up better. It does everything I wanted. I need to learn the
finer points of using the program as well as tighten up my own graphic
design of the menus. But overall I'm well pleased!
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