question w/ reel dvd

[vandakeg]

I'm using Sonic Reel DVD to author a wedding video which I'm transferring from VHS to DVD. There are several different parts to the video (ie, getting ready before, the ceremony, pictures after, reception, etc..) and I have them all as seperate streams. I would like to make a menu with the option to either watch all the streams consecutively, or one by one. Does anyone know how I'd go about doing this?

[jsnkc]

I'm not sure if you are able to do this in Reel DVD, but there should be a command for a "end Action" It says on the Sonic site that this software has Next, Previous, and Return link programming capabilities, so there might be a way to do it, but I have never used the software so I'm not quite sure how to do it.

[vandakeg]

IS there maybe a different authoring program that may be more suited for what I'm trying to do? TIA

[jsnkc]

Maestro will do it, but it isn't cheap

[ktnwin]

reelDVD sure can do what you want. The best way is to spend sometimes to go thru the Tutorial. This is a very good excercise on how to author a DVD using reelDVD. It's a very flexible authoring program, it just need quite a bit of time to learn on how to use it.

Other authoring programs (which I know , for home use) can also almost what you want to do :
1) Pinnacle Studio 8 (demo avail), selected chapters and watch all streams
2) neoDVD (no demo), play selected clip only then return to menu.

Good luck

[vandakeg]

NOOO!! You're telling me I have to RTFM!!! AHHH! I just thought maybe there'd be a more intuitive guide online somewhere (as is usually the case). In the meantime I'll start diggin' for the manual, oh man, I can just hear the creaking and cracking sounds of a brand new manual being opened. NOOOO!