Forum: Authoring (DVD)

All I want to do is take clips from my non protected dvds. Ive tried vob edit then tried cutterman, but this whole take it apart and rejoin them seem tedious. Ive also tried Dycrypter then put the files in Mpeg flask which converts to AVIs but Im losing some clarity. Its almost like if it...

I used Adobe Encore DVD 2.0 and imported an AVI on one track and subtitles (adb.txt) on the subtitle track. I created a DVD that when viewed diplays both the video and subtitles and now I need to have this in WMV format. I have tried Xiliasoft, NERO, and imTOO, but the subtitles do not display...

Hi, know anyone how can i normalize volume before making a dvd by music videos in various formats? Thx

I am wanting to find a program that will convert avi files to DVD and also generate basic menus with each avi as a chapter in the menu.

Did a DVD from .mpeg files yesterday. The sources was about 2 GB and Ulead DVD MovieFactory said it would require 4.1 GB out of the 4.37 GB on the disk. 4 hours later the process stopped at a progress of 99% telling me it had ran out of disk space on the DVD! Q1. Why does it take that...

Hi, Please could someone help me, Every time a burn a movie to DVD and play it in my home dvd player the play back sticks for a couple of seconds then carrys on playing. This only happens maybe once or twice during a film but is very annoying because i cant work out why it would be doing it. ...

I ripped some VHS tapes and had four MPEGs, each about an hour and about 2.8 gigs. I use Nero to do my authoring, but I know most people here have nothing good to say about it. Why? When I brought all the files into Nero, the program told me that the project was way to big so I just changed...

Can someone please give me a link to a trial download of Magix Photostory Thanks

I am converting all of my old VHSC camcorder tapes to DVD before they start degrading too much. The are (of course) of my kids, currently 7 and 2. I am capturing them through an AIW directly to DVD compliant MPEG using Lordsmurfs guide (Thanks, BTW). I would like to use reasonably capable...

Ive been using DVD Workshop 2 for a while now. I just built a new video editing system and went to reinstall the software on this new system and I was unable to get it to work. I was getting BSOD stop error screens and the whole bit. Well, I decided to give Adobe Encore DVD 2.0 (my new system...

For days I have been triying to burn a 1 hour DVD project created in Avid Liq 7. I export the timeline as a avi file, and as a mpg file. I have use TMPGEnc to transcode it from avi to mpge. I have let the authoring programs transcode as they will. I am using DVD Lab, DVD WS2, Tsunami DVD Author...

Why does my menu look great in dvd lab pro - but look low resd and blurry as all hell after I compiled and reopened it as a dvd? Its quite maddening that the outputs look like such garbage.

Hi, I am having a problem with creating a dvd from a recorded basketball game from my media center. I have been trying to use the media center toolbox functions to remove the commercials and convert to mpeg. I then use tmpgenc to create dvd folders. I then try to use dvd shrink to shrink it to a...

OK, so I have captured an old home movie onto my laptop using an external USB 2.0 capture device. Using the Pinacle Studio 9.4 QuickStart software that came with the capture device, I captured 2 hours 3 minutes in the MPEG2 format at 720x480. This resulted in a file size of about 6.3GB. Using...

Is there a way to build a DVD with other files such as power point and MS Word files included in the DVD?

Dear Friends, We are doing profssional DVD Authoring using Spruce hardware and software.We get Digibetas in Pal but we have to convert them to Ntsc for export.The Hi-8 tapes are also in Pal format.Now my Video becomes 25 to 29 and so i have to convert my audio too.I do all this work in ProTools....

Ok this is driving me crazy,Im experienced with dvd captures.encoding etc but i have recently used FAB DVDecryptor to strip a dvd and put in to my hard drive as normal. Its a TV show dvd with 6 x 25min episodes that I intended to burn on 2 DVD R discs as normal. I made the 25min mpgs as normal...

Can anyone tell me a way of generating a DVD with DVDAuthor2 that goes to the top menu when the "menu" button on the remote is pressed (the one that shows the tracks rather than chapters)? As far as I can tell the default is for the "title" button to take you to the top menu and I cant see a way...

I encoded .avi movie using Cinema Craft Encoder SP2 with four passes, after it finished two files were made-the movie itself in .mpv format and .wav file(almost 1.5GB). I inserted .mpv file in Sonic DVDit pro to make menus, but when I tried to simulate the DVD there was no sound, obviously somehow...

hello all simple question, at least i hope so I took some video from my sons hockey game. I imported it into ulead video studio 10. I would like to MUTE the sound from during the hockey game(all the parents talking) and play music to the video captured during his game. Is there a way to do...

I used motion thumbnails in my menus in Studio 8. I recently bought Studio 10.5 and upgraded it to 10.6. I cant figure out how to make motion thumnails. Are motion thumbnails now considered premium content, making it necessary for me to purchase an activation key to use them?

Okay so I had some tapes of short movies my friends and I made. I burned them to DVD then used DVD decrypter to turn them into VOB files. I took out the sound because I want to add music to them. Im just taking short clips out of them using MPEG flask. Everything is working great, now Im at a...

Hi -- I am an impatient newbie both here and to the world of DVD authoring, so please be gentle with me :jumpy: I just started using Ulead DVD workshop and love it so far but I have a couple of questions regarding menus 1) I really like the fact that I can add more than one audio stream,...

Greetings! I am attempting to get familiar with some of the menu layout commands in GUI for DVDauthor (GFD). I would like to align the GIF masks and text titles for each video in an orderly fashion. I have the grid shown on the main menu screen, and as I add videos to the project I see how the...

Hi folks, I have sonic digitalmedia plus v7 software and would like to divide double layer dvd movie into 2 single layer dvd as i dont have dl dvd media. Does anyone know how to do it? I tried the help option on sonic digitalmedia plus v7 and did not find the topic or it is not covered there....

Darn I meant to post this in another catagory Sorry Here it is http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1604347#1604347 (I cant seem to delete this thread)

Hello everybody, I´m new to this forum and I study cinema. Down here in Brazil I´m currently working on a project whose objective is to create a random access DVD. Although the random concept is very simple, there is one issue we´re anticipating, which is the following: Our movie predicts 14...

This may be a question that isnt necessary to ask -- perhaps standalone DVD recorders are already designed to compensate for the space in question (Ive heard most of them only record up to about 4gigs and not beyond this, even when they report the disc as "full") but when using a standalone...

I have a 6 month old sone that I want to make a DVD with his videos. If I had MPEGs for his whole life, I would be fine. The problem is that for the first few months I did not have the Camcorder. This means that I only have JPEGs for the first few months. The way I imagine doing this is using...

Im trying to set a new starting point for my menus so theyre not just black screens. Every time I find the point at which I want to start I get a message saying "Video preview position has changed but the playback start and end points are not finalized yet. Set the background picture start...

Even though Ive got six local and four external hard drives, Im running out of room. Most of my stuff is live Concert audio files and video files. The audio files are in various formats (.wav, .shn, .flac, and .ape) and the video files are VIDEO_TS folder files (ifo, vob, bup). Im currently...

Hi, I have completed my project and when I try to burn I get an error saying Unspecified error 5.0.0 It only wants to burn an old project and not the new one. Also, when I exit the burning menu it asks me if I want to save the project, I say yes, and then it says unable to save... How do I...

I download Japanese subtitle SRT. When I open it with notepad, it appear mess up. I mean It is not japanese, cant read.... I dont know how to show correct japanese. i Setup UTF-8 and UTF-16, but it wont fix. How can I fix??? I have japanese font in my XP. I can read Japanese in email...

I use MemoriesOnTV Pro v3. Id like to try the alternative TMPGEnc encoder which it offers as well as its native encoder. Ive emailed both Codejam and TMPGEnc for advice, but meanwhile wonder if anyone here knows how to do that please? MoTV expects a path to TMPGEnc.exe. My trial version of...

Hi, I have a 4:3 pal dvd film and when I play it in computer I can see perfectly the beginning credits. But on my TV set I miss one letter on the left one letter on the right of some of the credits. The image is a bit cropped. Ifoedit says "automatic letterboxed" for the movie attributes. I...

I have edited several Tivo files w/ VRD successfully but have recently run into issues after bumping up the video quality on Tivo (from High to Best). With higher quality Tivo files I now get "glitches" in the video stream whereas at lower quality I wasnt. Checked the Program Info on new files...

Ive been trying to figure out the formula to burning DVDs that are compatible with a commercial home DVD player for quite some time, but to no avail. My current project includes the following: -MagnaVox MWD2205 DVD/VCR combo player -Sony DVD-R disks -Set of DVD files now currently on hard...

I am using the above prog. to transfer my RAM recordings made on my Panny DRM-ES10 recorder onto -R disks as I have been doing with the 1.6 version. When I use the source wizard to import the clip it says that I have a unsupported audio format. This audio format works ok with the 1.6 version so...

I have lots of AVI-films on my harddisks (38 years of filming in different formats but now AVI). They are edited with Ulead6 and later Pinnacle 9. A couple of years ago I found a good Sonic4 program to make DVDs However it suddenly gave error messages and I tried to reinstall but finally gave up...

Hi, What is the best and easiest DVD (re)authoring tool when it comes to creating of simple menues and creating of compilations from different DVD sources? What I want to do is to put several different DVD-movies onto a single disc. This is very easily done in TMPGEnc DVD Author as long as...

i cant figure this one out. i have a video as my background. on top of that i have my text, links, etc and my video previews that link to my movies. i want to shuffle the loop points and make each video preview about 8 seconds.. however my background video is 26 seconds.. when i render motion...

I am creating ready to start a DVD project where the DVD is completely interactive. You use your remote control to navigate throughout the DVD to select video clips to watch. I have ripped these vids from Youtube and google. I have had NO luck using Adobe Encore 2.0. I cant even get off...

Hello all, I have been using Nero Vision Express 3.0.127 for a while now but I have a strange issue where at times the sound goes from the normal sound to an awful high pitch hum sound. Link to Noise clip anyway this noise is random and I cant isolate whats causing it. I normally make...

I have been making the jacket images for my DVDs for a long time with success. The only problem I have with my results is that of the 3 jacket images I make (J00___5L, J00___5M J00___5S), how come the picture quality degrades seriously as the size decreases? The small picture looks like a bundle of...

Is there a way of putting a PDF file on a DVD? I am using DVDlab PRo 1.5. Thanks

Hello all. Im using DVD Composer and am running into a strange problem. After adding all tracks and doing everything necesasary, I build the DVD. It seems to work fine, but when I play the DVD, the inital playback seems to alternate between the main menu and one of the other tracks. I see no...

Hello, I would like to use a menu from a DVD Movie in my custom DVD. I use DVD Lab Pro 2, any suggestions? thanks!

Hi everyone, i have an avi file encoded with xvid and ac3 codecs. am trying to convert it to dvd(pal) video using the famous tmpgenc tool. my problem is that whenever i try to do this the tmpgenc tool sometimes gives as output a single .mpg file and other times 2 file .m2v and a .wav(which is...

i have loads of TV episodes i have been given by a friend who put them onto my hard drive. i want to copy them onto a playable dvd but by using nero7 i can only fit maximum of 2 files on a dvd. Is there a program i can use to fit more clips on. THe clips are about 45 minutes long at resolution...