Please Teach Me To

[Tom Saurus]

I have a pretty good understanding on how to do make DVD's and have had some success. I really like using TMPGEnc DVD Author to make DVD's especially since I understand now how to make custom menues.

I was watching the DVD of "Lonesome Dove" the original Mini-Series, and I am intriqued with some of the Special Features. I thought it was nice to read interesting facts and information of the author and details on the movie. If I remember correctly one could click to a page and read it and then click and arrow and go on and read some more.

I was hoping someone could explain how to do something similar with footage that one has captured. How can make little trivia pages to read on a DVD? This is something I think is really neat.

[reboot]

Just create a jpg containing your text.
Load it into TDA as a menu background, with a link back and forward, whatever.
Include it in your authoring process, adding background music if you want.
Get fancy, create a scrolling marquee type of text in paintshop pro animation shop, save it as .avi. Encode it as any other avi to mpeg. Author it as any other mpeg.

[Tom Saurus]

Thank you for the information Reboot. If I load the .jpeg in as a background, it would be underneath my chapter icons that are on the screen, so it would be obscurred. One cannot just bring in a .jpeg and have it by itself with a link backward and forward, can they?

I don't own PhotoShop, but would a freeware program like "Gimp" be able to do the fancy scrowling text?

I will have to give it a try, the .jpeg background suggestion and see what happens. Thanks once again. I am assuming "Gimp" is still freeware.

[reboot]

One of your chapter icons would lead to the screen with the info (the jpeg of text).
All you need there is the forward/back arrows.
Back to your chapters menu, or main menu, forward to the next bit of trivia/whatever.
I have no idea of the capabilities of Gimp. I use PaintShopPro 6 animation shop.