Help with creating dvd's; I use Premiere and Sonit DVDit

[jones_randy]

I have two questions. One is how do you create chapters in Adobe Premiere and then how do you do make your dvd's to where to have screen selection options. I assume you have to do both of these things for creating screen selections on your dvd.

My second question is, can you put the same created video on the same dvd multiple times so it will continue to play over and over and over or is there another way to make the dvd play continuously. The reason I am asking such a odd question is that I have a wedding demo that I am going to be playing at a Bridal show this weekend and I wanted it to play continuously instead of having to keep hitting play every 20 minutes, because it is only 20 minutes long.

Anyone that can answer either question, your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!

[erayboul]

You can't create chapters per se in Adobe Premiere (normally you leave chapters up to the authoring program), but you can place markers on the timeline. I'm not how to do that, as I haven't tried it yet. I believe that some encoding/authoring programs can interpret the markers as chapter marks. As far as your second question is concerned, you don't have to burn multiple copies of your video but you do have to find an authoring program that allows you to loop the video. I have Sonic's ReelDVD and I can put a video track on the storyboard. I can then set up the "Next" action (when the user hits the Next Track or Skip Forward buttons on when the video ends) so that it just points back to the same track. I'm not sure what other authoring programs can do. Sorry I wasn't more help.

[daamon]

Hi jones_randy,

erayboul is right: Premiere don't do the chapters, the authoring program does. Also right about the looping. I believe from memory (sure I've seen it, though not used it) that TMPGEnc DVD Author does looping.

Hope that helps. Good luck with the demo...