DVD & BluRay Menu + Chapter Creation Programs ?

[VideoFanatic]

I'm looking to author DVDs and BluRays. This is what I require from a program that can do that:

• I want a plain black background with white text for the menu links.
• I don't want thumbnails just simple text.
• I want a single vertical list of title/chapter names per page.
• I should be able to enter long chapter names and ideally I should be able to enter some information about what the chapter contains
• The program should allow me to import chapter text files.
• I should be able to add my name in the footer of the menu.

The program could be a standalone menu creator or it can be an authoring program which can author to an ISO image. If it's an authoring program it needs to remux, not re-encode.

How exactly would the menu programs work? What do you do with the menu it gives you? How do you import that into an authoring program?

I tried multiAVCHD but I can't find a way to disable thumnails on the chapters - you can only do that with the titles. You also can't have a single vertical list of chapter names.

So could somebody please suggest some programs which could fulfil my requirements. Thanks

[borax]

Guifordvdauthor can do text-only menus.

I should be able to enter some information about what the chapter contains

You can, but as the resolution on a DVD (or TV) is very limited, the maximum possible information is also very limited.

[VideoFanatic]

Thanks. I'll give that a try. Is there anything like that for BluRays?

[borax]

No idea. I still stick to DVDs.

[_Al_]

DVD Architect offers export DVD volume and Blu-Ray ISO from one project.
Resolution is different as mentioned, you would have to have different default menu made, one for DVD and one for BD.
One problem would be to make DVD Architect to not reencode video or audio, which could be probably THE problem of this solution, users complain that some videos even DVD or BD compliant DVD Architect insists on reencoding. Hence the other question:

What is the origin of those videos that you want to put on optical disk. If it is videoeditor's timeline you can get it to DVD Architect in uncompressed form from Sony Vegas timeline (or Premiere, what ever works with Debugmode frame server) . If your video is already given , downloaded, rendered and DVD or BD compliant go get DVD Architect, test it and you will see if it eats it up a chew out without rendering.