Posted by Bill Anderson on 05/20/06 20:48

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.

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Bill Anderson

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