Photodex Proshow Gold

[Peter H]

Hi All

i have started using Proshow Gold and from what i have have seen htis is a great program.

Im going to keep fiddling with it to see what it can do but i have one question for anyone who has used it. Can you have a main menu and then sub menus?

i am currently puting together a slideshow for my brother in law who just got married. what i want to do is put both the engagement picture and the wedding pictures on the same DVD.

we would start with a main menu with two options egangement and wedding. if you choose engagement then you go to a sub menu with 3 slideshows. and the same for if you select wedding.

can this be done?

[daamon]

Hi Peter H,

I don't use Proshow Gold, so I don't know if it does menus.

However, if it doesn't, an easy option would be to use that software to create two slideshows: one for the engagement and a seperate one for the wedding.

Then, during the authoring of the DVD, put each slideshow into a seperate track. You can then create a menu with two options, each option going to it's respective track. Problem solved...

This is by no means an unusual way of doing this, and is easy to do. TMPGEnc DVD Author is good software to start with if you're new to DVD authoring, and will easily do what I've suggested.

Hope that helps. Good luck...

[Peter H]

Hi Peter H,

I don't use Proshow Gold, so I don't know if it does menus.

However, if it doesn't, an easy option would be to use that software to create two slideshows: one for the engagement and a seperate one for the wedding.

Then, during the authoring of the DVD, put each slideshow into a seperate track. You can then create a menu with two options, each option going to it's respective track. Problem solved...

This is by no means an unusual way of doing this, and is easy to do. TMPGEnc DVD Author is good software to start with if you're new to DVD authoring, and will easily do what I've suggested.

Hope that helps. Good luck...

So going by what you say i could create the different slide shows and then author them using a dvd authoring priogram.

i use DVD Lab Pro, could i use this to generate the menu system for the dvd?

[daamon]

So going by what you say i could create the different slide shows and then author them using a dvd authoring priogram.

i use DVD Lab Pro, could i use this to generate the menu system for the dvd?

Yes, yes. And yes.

There's some great tutorials over at the DVDLab Pro website.