Some allow a 'mini-movie' to be used as the menu background, others allow a music track to be added to a 'static' background photo.Īll authoring software will prepare the required Video_TS files. You can always change the menu background image and text, and often the 'position' of 'buttons' as well. Most have some 'default' menu profiles or set-up's, often with pre-set background images and 'customisable' title font / size / colour. Some permit multiple menu 'pages' & some will even generate 'jump to scene' ('Chapter') bookmarks automatically. Most 'authoring' software will allow you to add multiple clips ('titles') to the DVD. for display, advertising, exhibition or similar These are good for making movies intended for play-back in 'unattended' mode eg. Some DVD authoring packages allow you to dispense with the 'menu' and create a DVD that starts to play automatically. What does your DVD authoring software need to achieve ?īasically, it must allow you to select the material to be 'burned' and create a 'menu' structure (that allows the user to control the playback).
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wmv) to DVD mpeg2 (and risk your movie being trashed), you should 'convert to DVD standard' before going to Author.
waste hours 'converting' from one format (eg. So whilst this lets the originators claim to 'support' a list of Codecs as long as your arm, if you actually try to 'import' anything other than 720x576 (PAL) MPEG2 you can expect it to waste hours converting your carefully composed movie into garbage Rather than let the Author app.
Most Author software includes an out-of-date version of FFmpeg. Most DVD Author packages focus on making Menus, Chapters and actual DVD 'burning', so generally have exceedingly poor 'edit' capability (if any) If your Movie is just a tiny bit too big to fit onto the DVD, some Author software will automatically re-code all your video at half the original bit-rate (others will drop the bit rate in steps, usually 1Mbs), whilst some software will simply fail at the 'burn' stage (usually without warning and often by 'locking up' and loosing the just assembled Video_TS files).So rather than let the Author application drop the bit rate, you can usually find some parts that can be 'cut' using the edit software (or use "DVD Shrink", which allows you to 'recode' into a size that will 'exactly fit'. Getting it right before 'authoring' your DVD the reason is the 'FAT32' directory structure (often found on USB connected 'back up' drives) limits files to a maximum of 4Gb In each case you may want to combine the parts (and perhaps re-split** at a different point).**Whilst most modern PVR's have no file limit this could result in video files exceeding 4Gb - and it's amazing how often even 'commercial' video edit software falls over when called on to cope with files exceeding 4Gb. Some older PVR's had a 2Gb file size limit and would automatically split a movie into more than one file. Even on the BBC, Movies are often split into two parts with 'news' inserted between the halves.
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You might also want to combine more than one episode of a TV series into a single 'movie', or split one long sequence into separate episodes (or 'Titles' as the DVD industry calls them). If nothing else you will want to cut this crap out. If your 'source' was a DVR / PVR, then your material will have unwanted adverts = even the BBC 'fades out' endings and sticks in some 'self-advertising' at the end of programs - even when the end title video is left intact, it's often 'voiced over' by some moronic announcer 'advertising' the next program. DVD (SD) authoring For making HD DVDs (AVCHD), see my Making AVCHD DVDs page Editing your video file(s)
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