Which authoring software is right for my situation ?

[ahmadka]

Hi everyone! Well I have a rather simple question here...

I have multiple recorded TV Shows in my computer, and I thought I should probably make a DVD out of them...All episodes also have their individual SRT format subtitles.

Its relatively easier to find a DVD authoring program when there is just one video with one subtitle file. My problem is that I dont know of any DVD authoring programs, which support multiple video tracks, with their own individual subtitles.

So basically I need a DVD authoring software which has the following features:

Required:
1) Supports multiple video tracks
2) Video tracks can have their individual subtitles
3) Subtitles can be imported from SRT files.

Optional, but still very much needed:

4) Wide variety of menu templates.
5) Support for multiple subtitle tracks for each video track (english, spanish, etc..)
6) A Subtitle menu, where subtitles can be turned on/off...


So if you can suggest me a DVD authoring software meeting my needs as mentioned above, please tell me so.

Also, its OK if its a commercial product, provided its a good software.

Thanx in advance.

[pcb]

you can try dvdlab pro

[ahmadka]

yeah i tried dvdlab pro...the problem is that its not accepting AVI files, which i have...it only accepts mpeg 1/2 files....which means that i would have to do another unnecessary conversion first..

any other options ?

[fk]

You cannot make a video DVD with AVI files. The DVD format only accepts MPEG1 and MPEG2 files. Therefore you need to place every single episode in its own folder together with the corresponding subtitles and burn the DVD in data mode. You dont need an authoring program for that.

[sumeshkri]

what is this av1 file>i have read --audio video interleaned --from glossory. but my qtn is-- is it very large with reference to volume it contains? five minutes
vcd is around 40mb. but in my pc when i get something recorded as av1 with pixelview tv tuner card it is more than one GB!!!! is it so? if it is so, people who want to have the av1 files for one hour duration need to get a megabig harddisk???????kindly explain

[poisondeathray]

convertxtodvd (trialware) automates this process (almost 1-click)

the newer beta versions have multiple menu templates