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Posted by Ken Maltby on 10/05/42 11:54
"Jukka Aho" <jukka.aho@iki.fi> wrote in message
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> Sailor wrote:
>
>> I have always done straight burns without chapters but now I've got
>> arequest to add chapters. I thought it would be no problem with
>> Workshop but I am having a lot of trouble.. [trying to add chapters
>> with "in" and "out" points]
>
> Chapters on a DVD disc are, by definition, merely "in" points. (The
> DVD standard does not really have a concept of an "out" point for a
> chapter.)
>
> That being said, advanced DVD authoring tools (such as DVD-Lab Pro
> or Sonic Scenarist) allow more navigational control via Virtual
> Machine (VM) commands. These can be used for creating the same kind
> of navigational structure you probably expected to have with your
> "out" points.
>
> For more information, see <http://www.dvd-replica.com/DVD/vmcommands.php>.
>
> --
> znark
>
All true, and another part of the definition of a chapter is that
they are in order, one immediately after the other to the end of
the story. Just like in a book. That's why you don't have "out
points", only "in points" or "Chapter Points". (Odd trivia: the
actual command addresses a point at the end of the previous
chapter to make this Chapter point.)
The Chapter is really properly considered as a "part of Title".
The Chapter Points are a navigation feature that defines portions
of the title. There is no need for a Chapter Point to appear as
a menu selectable item. The Chapter Points can be automatically
added every x minuets (say 5 min.) and have nothing to do with
the way you break your video story into "chapters" or the points
within the Title that you can jump directly to, from a menu.
You can break your "story"/Title into selectable parts to provide
your viewer with a means to take up the story from different points,
or easily find where they left off viewing. While you will use some
Chapter Points to do this, you shouldn't think of Chapter Points as
only these points.
The main thing to consider, about chapters in a DVD, is that they
follow one after the other to the end of the Title. If you start in one
you continue on from that point through all the following chapters.
Now Titles don't work that way, they are each independent of
whatever else is on the DVD. There is no required order to how
titles will play. (You can establish such an order, (for a "Play All"
button, for example, if you wish) It is much easier to specify the
"end action" of a Title. Titles can (and should) have Chapter Points
within them. You can make Chapter Points to identify the chapters
you want for a "chapter menu" of the Title. ( You aren't required to
have such a menu.) Also, a chapter menu of a Title need not use
all the Chapter Points in that Title, only those you want to use.
So, you (and your authoring program), need to be able to work
with establishing "chapters" in two ways; as the needed navigation
data and as the very optional chapters of your story, that can be
accessed through a menu.
If independent play is your goal, it would be better to create a
number of Titles rather than depending on the chapters within a
single Title. If you want both independent play and have a means
of playing the DVD straight through, then add a "Play All" button
to the Title menu/Main menu, where you select the Titles to play.
Now, for an Authoring program recommendation; for me the way
TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.6 (TDA) works, makes what you are
describing, a simple, straight forward process.
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/tda16.html
With TDA all you need do to change a menu component is to
click on it. Just click on the background and a window will
come up that will let you find and load a graphic or video clip
of your choice. When you make your own menu theme you
would select one of the Text only ( no thumbnail) layouts, the
first one is Layout 6 #3.
To have background music in your menu, you need to make
it a "motion menu". To do that using a still image all you need
to do is use your still image as the video portion and your music
file as the audio portion when encoding to .mpg. If you don't
have an MPEG encoder, you could download a demo of one,
from the same site, above.
If by "animated buttons" you mean the thumbnails, that's
built-in; and there a number of tricks you can use to create
almost any effect you can think of. (Basically any area of the
background can be made to respond as if it were a "button".)
TDA is a great little "workhorse" type of program, most
people who include it amongst their video tools, find that
it becomes their preferred tool for most DVDs. That said,
there are other more capable authoring programs, DVD Lab
Pro (probably the most "bang for the buck") and Scenarist
( recognized all time leader amongst professional authoring
programs, and priced to reflect that fact.) ; are in that category.
Luck;
Ken
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