What software for 200 slideshows in AC3?

[thxoptimizer]

Hi,

If you read the previous post, you have read that I tried to use DVDLab but I have to give up because if I have 200 slideshows, there is no way to designed them as chapters.
So as I had 200 titles (which is impossible on a DVD), the compilation crashed.

Do you know the way to do it?

Here is the structure I want to do:
My DVD has the sub-menus : 1-1, 1-2, 1-3 (linked together as if there were 3 pages and the first title of main menu is linked to sub-menu 1-1)
Same thing for sub-menus 2-1, 2-2, 2-3
...
sub-menus 6-1, 6-2, 6-3
sub-menu 7
sub-menu 8

So there is 8 title in the main menu, 20 sub-menus and each sub-menu has around 10 chapters.

Chapters (=slideshows) are linked together from the beginning to the end (the last slideshow linked to the sub-menu i-j is linked to the first slideshow of the sub-menu i-j+1 ) and the last one in the last sub-menu is finaly linked to main menu.

These chapters are in fact slideshows where there is one music in AC3 5.1 (generique in the end of movies) with generaly one image (sometimes 2 or 3) matched to audio duration.



I was happy to find endly a software which accept AC3 5.1, but it won't work with DVDLab.


Thank you for your advices

[GangstaMo]

Try DVDArchitect from Sony,u will be one happy camper

[thxoptimizer]

Are you really sure it can do what I want (because I've lost at least 20 hours with DVDLab and I don't have as much time any more)

[GangstaMo]

Well to be honest,i use this proggy a while back,if im not mistaken
u can arrange your S/S in many ways also it converts your music
to AC3 or 5.1..

Read up a little more on the Sony Website,i think there is a Trial...

GL

[canadateck]

Read here about it.

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/products/DVDArchitect2NewFeatures.pdf

[thxoptimizer]

I've read the PDF but I don't think DVD Architect allowed to create slideshows in AC3 5.1 (if someone regulary use it, can he test if it does).

I think I remember I tried it before DVDLab and that it doesn't match with what I want to do.

[canadateck]

It will encode all Audio into AC3 if you tell it to.

[thxoptimizer]

I don't want to encode my audio stream, it is already AC3 5.1

I think I'll try to do a multi-VTS DVD with DVDLab but I don't know how it works.
Someone already did it? Can we link the last title of VTS1 to the first of VTS2? If the root-menu is in VTS1, could it be linked to elements in VTS2 or VTS3?

[GeorgeW]

I don't want to encode my audio stream, it is already AC3 5.1

I think I'll try to do a multi-VTS DVD with DVDLab but I don't know how it works.
Someone already did it? Can we link the last title of VTS1 to the first of VTS2? If the root-menu is in VTS1, could it be linked to elements in VTS2 or VTS3?

Add a VMG Menu, and that will allow linking to menus or movies in other VTS's.

You can also create a Playlist to play a list of movies from any of the VTS's (so the playlist can have movie-A from VTS1 and movie-B from VTS2).

[thxoptimizer]

Yes, I understand that : I've made a test with 2 VTS ( 2 sub-menus with 2 slideshows linked with each one) and my main menu as a VMG Menu.

My question is :

Is the limitation of 99 titles per DVD (in this case, it diesn't solve my problem) or of 99 titles per VTS (in that case... )

Because when we go from slideshow 4 (in VTS1) to slideshow 5 (in VTS2), we go from title 4 to title 5 and if the limitation is of 99 titles in the whole DVD, I will be stop for the same reason.

[GeorgeW]

Are you saying that when you asked this:

I think I'll try to do a multi-VTS DVD with DVDLab but I don't know how it works.
Someone already did it? Can we link the last title of VTS1 to the first of VTS2? If the root-menu is in VTS1, could it be linked to elements in VTS2 or VTS3?

You were really asking this?

My question is :

Is the limitation of 99 titles per DVD (in this case, it diesn't solve my problem) or of 99 titles per VTS (in that case... biggrin.gif )

[canadateck]

I don't want to encode my audio stream, it is already AC3 5.1

It wont encode if you dont want it to,So if it is already AC3 then thats what it will use.

[thxoptimizer]

Fo GeorgeW : sorry, I should not use this police

It was to emprove the reading speed

So : new question
Is the limitation of 99 titles per DVD (in this case, it diesn't solve my problem) or of 99 titles per VTS (in that case... )

[thxoptimizer]

Please, someone, help, it's my last question (I admit it is a little complicated...)

[canadateck]

When you say Slide show.what do you mean? Is this an MPG2 file with Pictures?Or do you have 200 Pictures that you want on a DVD? Or do you have 200 MPG2 files with Pictures?

Many ways to do this. what are you working with?

[thxoptimizer]

I work with DVDLab : a slideshow contains one audio stream (in AC3 5.1 in my case) on one or severall images which last the sime time as the audio stream.

I create one slideshow for each audio stream I have and I have 180 audio stream so there are 180 slideshows --> 180 titles.

So the problem is that slideshow can't be designed as chapters.

Conclusion :
Is the limitation of 99 titles per DVD (in this case, it diesn't solve my problem) or of 99 titles per VTS (in that case... :- ) )

[canadateck]

For each picture in a "Slide Show" in DVDArchitect it sets a "Chapter" up to 99 , but you can have more then 99 but you can only fastforward after the 99th Picture.

In DVDArchitect a slideshow is called a Picture Compilation , you can have many of these with up to 99 Pictures that have chapters for each picture. You can have up to 8 Adudio tracks in AC3. To go to the next one you can set the end action to do this.

[thxoptimizer]

Thank you.

(But The demo version of DVD Architect
does not allow MP3, MPEG, or AC-3 files to be imported...)