Adding Titles or Credits?

[Benn_Black]

I want to add a basic title to the start of a movie, name, date etc, etc. What's the best way of doing this? My OS is Windows 2000 so I cannot use Movie Maker 2.

[housepig]

you can use Virtualdub, or Wax. both freeware.

this should really be in "Editing, Cutting & Joining", not "DVD Authoring".

[harmsway1976]

what i do is use ulead video studio 6 and make a title with whatever info i want and also add animation and audio tracks if i want. then when i compile my dvd in dvd author i just add that video infront of whatever i'm doing. the only problem i had with this method is if the main video has ac3 audio the title video need ac3 also if it has sound.

[Benn_Black]

you can use Virtualdub, or Wax. both freeware.

this should really be in "Editing, Cutting & Joining", not "DVD Authoring".

The files are MPEG2 not avi.

[Supreme2k]

Then Virtualdubmod. It accepts MPG-2.

[Benn_Black]

Then Virtualdubmod. It accepts MPG-2.

IT accepts MPEG2 but doesn't save in MPEG2.

[BJ_M]

make them as a seperate file so you dont have to re-encde your mpeg file ..

just make a title card as you want to in paintshop or ms paint or something like that and save it as a bmp

load the bmp into tmpgenc and load a dummy audio file of 10 sec lenth into tmpgenc (it can be anything as long as it about 5-10 seconds)

encode to elem. mpeg2 matching nearly the specs of your film mpeg 2


join both together or author them so that title plays first then movie (better way)

you may need some real audio for your title card to match the specs of your movie audio

so do it ..

[Supreme2k]

IT accepts MPEG2 but doesn't save in MPEG2.

So?

Use Premiere or any other editing/effects software.