DVD Menu help

[jimquinn]

Here's what I'm trying to do.

1. Capture a video frame from a movie and save it to disk.
2. Cut out a portion for use on a dvd menu (like cropping a photo).

I'm not sure what the terminology is for doing this, thus my searches have not gone well.
I have DVDLab, Editstudio, MS Digital Video suite and other programs on my computer.

Thanks for your help
Jim

[jeanl]

which part of that are you currently not able to do?
- To extract the image, you can use PowerDVD (or any other DVD player that has a "snapshot" feature). Or DVD2AVI (free, lets you save a bitmap at an arbitrary place).
- To edit the image, anything will do (including paint!).
- Then to use that as a menu, I guess DVDLab lets you do that...
Jeanl

[borax]

You may use GUI for dvdauthor. With the integrated Chaptereditor it is easy to save (and crop) pictures to be used in menus (main menu and chapters menu) if your source is MPEG2.
You may use the Chaptereditor as a stand alone program either, if you prefer to author with DVDLab.
Doku: https://www.videohelp.com/~gfd/ChapEditGFD_eng.htm
Download: https://www.videohelp.com/~gfd/download/ChapEditGFD.zip

[Garibaldi]

You may use GUI for dvdauthor. With the integrated Chaptereditor it is easy to save (and crop) pictures to be used in menus (main menu and chapters menu) if your source is MPEG2.
You may use the Chaptereditor as a stand alone program either, if you prefer to author with DVDLab.
Doku: https://www.videohelp.com/~gfd/ChapEditGFD_eng.htm
Download: https://www.videohelp.com/~gfd/download/ChapEditGFD.zip

I agree. GFD is really a great piece of software with alot of options, including like borax said what you want to do. Plus its free.

[jimquinn]

It worked.
What I wanted was a logo for my menu screen. I took a snapshot with powerdvd, used MS Digital Image 9, cropped etc, saved it as a jpeg. Imported into dvdlab as an image and put it on the menu screen.

Thanks for all the help.
Jim