making own menu help

[fiveskinoff]

i want to put 2 movies on one dvdr and make my own menus, nothing special just a menu 2 pick one film or other can anyone point me in the right direction on a guide and software. thanx

[disturbed1]

Depends on what app your using to author.

Many include their own menu editting, and it explains it self.

If your using something like Maestro, that doesn't generate menus on it's own. A simple graphic file will be fine. You can do something as simple as a bitmap in MSPaint, to multi layered PSD in Photo Shop. Just import, draw the hotspots, the define the connections.

For an easy to use all in one app there's, Ulead's DVD Workshop and DVD movie factory, TMPG's DVD author, Dazzle DVD Complete, and many more. Click on the "Author" section on the left under How To. https://www.videohelp.com/author

[fiveskinoff]

what i mean is taking 2 dvd movies put 2 one disk with a simple menu

[dvdrules]

I'm trying to do the same thing. So far, the best that I can do is this:
Create the 2 movie Vobs seperately without chapter points (this gave me 2 vobs for each movie = total 4 vobs). Then, use Vobedit to join the clips (the 4 vobs) giving me a chapter point for each vob. Finally use Ifoedit to create ifos. There is no menu but two clicks on the next chapter button of the remote and you are at the start of the second movie. A couple of clicks on the previous chapter button and your back at the begining of the first movie. Any attempt at trying to create a menu as described makes my app re-render the movies which I don't want to do.

[Rond66]

I am using MAGIX video deLuxe 2 to do this.

Disk project

A disk project includes everything that you want to accommodate on your CD or DVD. Usually, that will be one or more movies (including the appropriate menu structures). Disk projects can be saved on the fixed disk as a ”DIP” file and can later be re-loaded in order to edit movies further.


Movie

Every “movie” can be divided up into as many “chapters” as you wish.
Every “movie” can be saved on the fixed disk as an MVD file. Such files contain chapters, effects settings, cutting markers, sound material – basically, the whole movie. The title of the disk project is automatically positioned in the uppermost part of the Selection menu hierarchy, which is also burned onto disk.


Chapter

A “Chapter” is a freely definable range (a sequence, an episode, a passage, a take) within a movie. As mentioned above, you can picture it as a roll of film within a larger film box. If a movie is not divided into chapters, in theory it is made up of just one chapter. In such a case, the Filmbox contains just “one film roll”.
The breakdown of a movie into chapters is performed either automatically through scene recognition, or manually through cutting “by hand”. A movie’s chapter land automatically in the Selection menu as a secondary “sub menu” entry.

In order to achieve meaningful chapter partitioning in the selection menu, each film must be divided into chapters. This is done in the video editor with the assistance of the edit menu. Place the start marker where you want a new chapter to be set, and select the “
chapter marker” option. The blue chapter markers appear in the timeline above and are movable via drag & drop or can be deleted via the “Delete (all) chapter markers” menu option.