TMPG dvd author

[BIFFtheSTIFF]

ok this program is pissin me off.....i have 4 episodes i want to put on dvd-r, i wanna create my own menu, how the hell do i make it so that on the main menu there's a button for each ep? and if i were to select an ep make that ep play and not take me to the track listing which is dumb. and how do i add in music to the main menu? i choise motion menu yet no where to add in music. help!

[northcat_8]

You need to add a new track on the far left hand side. Click "add new track". Put your different video files in over there, not by clicking "add file" or "add DVD video" on the right side.

Adding video files in the middle section adds more video to the same track, and they will appear as thumbs on sub menus or not at all if you show only the main menu.

Then on your menu options just change the "display menu setting" to "show only main menu". Selecting "show only main menu" will show thumbs for just your different tracks. You can still set chapter points, and if you choose to show main and track menus the chapter points will show up there. If you set chapter points but show only the main menu, the chapter points are still there and can be skipped to using the "next chapter" button during play back.

To add music to the main menu, I think the menu has to be encoded in a video editing app as a mpg. So if you have a still picture, but you want music with it, just encode it in a video editing app making it a video and bring it in to TDA.

[ZippyP.]

how do i add in music to the main menu? i choise motion menu yet no where to add in music.

I believe you need to input an mpeg which contains audio and video. TMPGEnc will accept a jpeg as input, add some audio and it will create your mpeg.

[BIFFtheSTIFF]

cool...thanks guys now i get it...well at least i think i do....i'll try that

[BIFFtheSTIFF]

ok here's an issue, i used tmpg xpress so i can input the background image that i want to appear in dvd author and i put my mp3 as the audio it encoded ok, but when i put it in dvd author yea the image is there but when i press it to be sure it plays the first frame is the image and the audio continues but the image is gone. will it be like this when i burn it to dvd and play it on my dvd player? or is it just how it is? or am i doin it wrong?

[BIFFtheSTIFF]

anyone?

[northcat_8]

You need to set the time of the image to match the time of the audio.

Dude...the easiest way is to just take the Image into your video editing app, drop your music on the audio time line, then stretch the pic to the end of the song, and encode as a mpg file.

[nic2k4]

When you select a video as a background, you can pick any frame as a still background. If you make it a motion menu, then you can set where the clip will start playing for the duration you set it for. What you're seeing is just due to the MPG you're using.

You can test your work, before burning it. Get Daemon Tools and install it. When you're ready to test, render your DVD and make an image file (ISO) with your burning software, then load the image in Daemon Tools and play it back. If you have Nero Image Drive, just use that.

[BobK]

You can test your work, before burning it. Get Daemon Tools and install it. When you're ready to test, render your DVD and make an image file (ISO) with your burning software, then load the image in Daemon Tools and play it back. If you have Nero Image Drive, just use that.

If you're using PowerDVD or many other software players there's no need to make an image- they'll play the DVD files created by DVD Author.

[BIFFtheSTIFF]

You need to set the time of the image to match the time of the audio.

Dude...the easiest way is to just take the Image into your video editing app, drop your music on the audio time line, then stretch the pic to the end of the song, and encode as a mpg file.

usin tmpg xpress how do i set the time of the image to match the time of audio?

[northcat_8]

I'm not familiar with TMPGexpress...can't help you.

I'd just do it in a video editing program and output as mpg.

[nic2k4]

TMPEGenc does that by itself, it will use an image for video input and encode it for as long as the audio lasts. Just double click the resulting mpg file and you'll see.

It's in TDA that you have to make sure you set the playback duration to match (or be shorter than) your mpg file. Beware that the duration you set will apply to the entire project, so you can't have motion menus of different lenght. Well, you can, but it's a bit backwards, here's the work around:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=259346