I need to make a still show. What software can I use?

[aristofeles]

I need a program that I can add menus, video, and most important: STILL SHOW (not Slide Show). I dont need multiple audio, or camera angles or subtitles. Neither AC3 support.

What program have this features? (and if you say scenarist: tell me how)

[guns1inger]

I assume by still show you mean a series of stills that only progress as the user moves through, rather than an automated slide show. Pretty much any package that allows the inclusion of stills, and can create buttons and links. Even better if they can have an auto action assigned so the user only has to highlight the button to move on.

DVD Lab can do this, as can DVD Architect, and pobably most others. Having said that, most of these offer a way to create slide shows to match audio length, all nice and automated, but if you want to do it your way, its all manual.

[aristofeles]

... and I can make the buttons invisible.
The problem on this solution: isn't the DVD format limited to only 99 menus on each disk? Can anyone cofirm this?

The way you describe I did already, and works fine. The problem is when I go beyond this number of pictures.




And you're right, what I want to do is manual progression, the same way it's done on the "Photo Gallery" that is avaiable on some DVDs.

[butler1]

Re: 99 menus

I can't confirm this for sure, but most authoring products seem to allow 99 menus max. See https://www.videohelp.com/dvd at the bottom, it says up to 99 titles with up to 10 vob files each, but I don't know if they can all be menus.[/quote]

[guns1inger]

DVD Lab allows up to 250 menus, with the Pro version allowing up to 250 menus per title, and up to 99 titles.

If you need more than 250 photos, I'd suggest looking for a better way of doing it. As a viewer, I'd be bored long before I reached the limit, even if it was porn

I'd look at a more logical way of breaking it down. The LOTR special edition photo galleries are a good example. They use thumbnails to find something of interest, then you can zoom in. Some even have short clips with audio (probably done as mini-slideshows). You could also look at bundling batches of photos into video clips, and using chapters to locate them. If the user wants a longer look, they can hit pause.

[mazinz]

if this gives you an idea as to how many menus you can have, the older Spruce up dvd app , in the help file, mentioned roughly having 10, 000 and more for menus, virtually limitless

[aristofeles]

Great!!! I need about 200/300 photos (I will make it easier, it should be about 15 menus for the photos alone). I thought the 99 menus I read about was on the entire disk, not on the software I was using.

Thanks!

[mazinz]

That is where you might have things a little confused, you can only have up to 99 titles per disc. One title is one movie clip on a disc. menus are a whole different story, as to how many of those you can add, all depends on the authoring software you use.
I mean their are ways to somewhat trick these apps if you do need more than 99 titles (you could then start making those extra clips as menus and kind of trick it that way) but im getting way off topic here.