DVD Authoring software

[Çå§ùåltîès ()ƒ Wår]

Hello i'm looking for a dvd authoring software to edit my music and anime videos that can cut,edit,and combine them.

I use SUSE 9.3 and FreeBSD.

[mats.hogberg]

cut,edit,and combine

That's not authoring - that's editing. If you want it all in one app, you're on the wrong OS. I don't think you'll find much in the "allinone" strain in Linux - The opposite is more Linux-minded.
Avidemux is good at editing - authoring on Linux is dvdauthor.

/Mats

[oldcpu]

Hello i'm looking for a dvd authoring software to edit my music and anime videos that can cut,edit,and combine them

Hmm... I'm thinking my post below was possibly missed?

That's not authoring - that's editing. If you want it all in one app, you're on the wrong OS. I don't think you'll find much in the "allinone" strain in Linux - The opposite is more Linux-minded.
Avidemux is good at editing - authoring on Linux is dvdauthor.
/Mats

Agree. There are a bunch of URL's in my post below. All of them can cut, edit and combine. The question for me is, which one's do certain things better?
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=280958

For me to install (and learn) them all would be rather time consuming. It would be really useful if we could get some sort of review dialog going, amongst those who have used some of these packages.

[oldcpu]

Hello i'm looking for a dvd authoring software

In the off chance you are actually looking for dvd authoring software (ie you already have your video edited precisely the way you like, and just need to create a menu and author the DVD structure), then some apps to consider are below. I have only tried a small handful of them. I currently use "tovid" and/or "KDE Authorwizard", as I can't get "dvdstyler" nor "qdvdauthor" nor "kmediafacotry" nor "varsha" to work properly for me, without getting various program execution errors. I would be very interested in getting a dialog going, comparing the various merits of the programs.

bitterbpp [is a GUI interface for MPlayer, transcoding DVD titles (video, audio, and subtitles) to Matroska file format][Can also to NTSC & PAL format conversions]
http://sunfryes.com/bitterbpp/about.html

dvdauthor [command line program - generates a DVD movie from a valid mpeg2 stream that should play when you put it in a DVD player]
http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/ - home
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdauthor

dvdstyler [frontend for dvdauthor and dvd-slideshow – single movie/single menu]
http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/docs-linux.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdstyler/
Help Forum: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=318795

dvdwizard [wrapper-script automate creation of DVD chapters/menu's. Needs dvdauthor],
http://udrecsuite.sourceforge.net/
[No english home URL but there is a german page]:
http://www.wershofen.de/downloads/dvdwizard.tar.gz
slightly more dated source forge page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=96640&release_id=203206

KDE DVDAuthorWizard [Creates video DVD with multiple titles & menu. Requires transcode, mjpegtools, sox, kommander (part of kdewebdev), ImageMagic, mplayer and optional(recommended) xine and k3b]
http://pingwing.xs4all.nl/view.php/page/DVDAuthor
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=27528v

klvemkdvd [front end for lvemkdvd - build DVD file systems from mpeg files]
http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/klvemkdvd.html

kmediafactory [authoring done by dvdauthor, ffmpeg, ImageMagick]
http://susku.pyhaselka.fi/damu/software/kmediafactory/

Linux Video Maker [graphics interface (GUI) for transcode, mplex, DVDAuthor and few other programs. Useful for DVD/(S)VCD structure generating, ready for record on CD/DVD. Written in Java so it needs Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to work]
http://www.videomaker.dnc.pl/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/videomaker/

mkdvd [a front-end for several programs which simplifies converting most kinds of movies to a DVD. While mkdvd is not a graphical front-end, it automates the entire task of creating a DVD into one simple command.]
[external progrms used by mkdvd: mplayer, dvdauthor, mkisofs, cdrecord-prodvd, dvd+rw-tools, ffmpeg, toolame, pike]
http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacks/mkdvd.html
mkdvd forum: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacker/viewforum.php?f=4
development version: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacks/mkdvd-beta.tgz

pgcedit [A DVD IFO and Menu editor designed to allow the modification of the navigation commands and parameters of an already authored DVD structure].
http://home.tiscali.be/debie.roland/pgcedit/

polidori [a DVD Authoring System for Gnome and Linux. It integrates several command line tools (dvdauthor, dvdrtools, ogle, etc) already available for Linux]
http://polidori.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/polidori

qdvdauthor [gui frontend for dvd-author and dvd-slideshow]
http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/

tovid [A suite of shell scripts to make VCD, SVCD and DVD authoring easier. Converts arbitrary video formats into (S)VCD/DVD-compliant mpeg, and can help with menu creation and disc authoring].
http://tovid.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tovid
Support/develpment user/developer forum: http://www.createphpbb.com/phpbb/index.php?mforum=tovid

varsha [java frontend to dvdauthor, dvd+rw-tools, mkisofs, mjpegtools etc...]
http://varsha.sourceforge.net/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/varsha

Videotrans [a set of scripts that convert a movie file in any format that mplayer understands to a DVD-compatible VOB file, doing all the necessary conversions automatically. An automatic DVD menu generator is also provided.]
http://videotrans.sourceforge.net/
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Videotrans-6982.shtml

Edit1 (6-Oct-05) - added pgcedit and fixed alphabetical order of packages.
Edit2 (12-Nov-05) - added Videotrans

[Çå§ùåltîès ()ƒ Wår]

WOW thanks for info. I will be checking them out.

By the way what the difference between editing and authoring? I always thought they were the same.

[oldcpu]

WOW thanks for info. I will be checking them out.

By the way what the difference between editing and authoring? I always thought they were the same.

In your original post you asked about cutting and pasting to which mats.hogberg replied:

That's not authoring - that's editing. If you want it all in one app, you're on the wrong OS. I don't think you'll find much in the "allinone" strain in Linux - The opposite is more Linux-minded.
Avidemux is good at editing - authoring on Linux is dvdauthor.

My understanding matches the above of mats.hogberg.

ie. ... if you have many clips you want to cut and paste together into one video, with special or fading effects in between, etc .... , and you do so, that is "editing". If you have one clip, and you cut and paste it (removing scenes, changing the order of scenes, etc ... ) to edit it, that is "editing".

But once you have one or more videos in the correct mpg format, and decide you want to create a menu and create a DVD structure ready for burning, that is "authoring".

Perhaps a key word here is "cut". I believe you never "cut" when authoring.

[oldcpu]

Updated the list, adding Videotrans [a set of scripts that convert a movie file in any format that mplayer understands to a DVD-compatible VOB file, doing all the necessary conversions automatically. An automatic DVD menu generator is also provided.]