DVD-Lab Pro options greyed out

[sdelange99]

Hi all,

First of all, I'm an absolute newbie to this forum and DVD authoring in general.

Since Adobe pulled the plug out of Creative Suite, there's no way for me to download Encore anymore. I used it to make basic DVD's that start playing immediately when inserted.
I'm in a DVD-Lab Pro trial at the moment. It seems great software, but there are a lot of greyed out options. I can't even hit the undo/redo buttons.

I tried to see if this is just because I'm in a trial, so I cracked the software but there was still no possibility for me to hit the undo button.

I'm exporting from Premiere Pro, so I'm getting an .m2v file and an .ac3 file.
Also, is there any other DVD authoring software in which you can do things manually? I couldn't really find anything besides DVD-Lab.

What's going on here?

Regards,
Sander

[OkeN]

Hi,

Please avoid to speak about cracking softwares, authors work very hard developing and coding softwares, so if you like them try them and buy them.

Have a look at MPEG Video Wizard DVD 5.0 or Womble EasyDVD (http://www.womble.com).

Cheers.

[_Al_]

I was under impression that undo redo is not working with DVDLab Pro, there is no need to have it anyway, you just delete particular part, code, something, replace it. DVD authoring construction is not a linear process, you can start from whatever end you wish, or you can replace or change parts you do not like.

If you do not need menu, you do not need DVDLab Pro, you can just mux VIDEO_TS with Muxman, then burn it with ImgBurn.
Or use command line to create VIDEO_TS:

"Muxman.exe"  "your_project.mxp" -d "C:\OUTPUT" -l "C:\OUTPUT\muxman.log" -run

where your_project.mxp is text file , you just correct those three bolded lines, paths for m2v, ac3 and aspect ratio (4:3 or 16:9) and it looks like that for example:
(btw, muxman recognizes that PAL or NTSC m2v stream and creates DVD as such, no need to specify it anywhere, it even checks that stream for DVD compatibility)

Section=Settings
{
	Destination Folder=
	Item=Palette
	{
		Name=DefaultPalette
		Color 0=0,0,0
		Color 1=255,0,0
		Color 2=0,255,0
		Color 3=255,0,0
		Color 4=0,255,0
		Color 5=0,0,0
		Color 6=0,0,0
		Color 7=0,0,0
		Color 8=0,0,0
		Color 9=0,0,0
		Color 10=0,0,0
		Color 11=0,0,0
		Color 12=0,0,0
		Color 13=0,0,0
		Color 14=0,0,0
		Color 15=0,0,0
	}
}
Section=Content
{
	Item=Segment
	{
		Name=Segment_1
Display Mode=16:9       
		Item=Video Stream
		{
			Item=Video Play
			{
File=C:\my_video.m2v     
				Duration=Actual
			}
		}
		Item=Audio Stream
		{
			Stream Number=1
			Language=en
			Language Extension=1
			Item=Audio Play
			{
File=C:\my_audio.ac3  
			}
		}
		Item=Scene List
		{
			Item=Scene
			{
				Name=Segment_1_scn1
				Scene Time=00:00:00:0
				Uop=0
			}
		}
	}
}
Section=Navigation
{
	Item=First PGC
	{
		Name=FP
		Menu ID=No Menu
		Uop=00000000
		PG Playback Mode=Sequential Playback
		Repeat Times=0
		PGC Still Time=0
		Palette=DefaultPalette
		Item=Pre Commands
		{
			Mov GPRM0, 1
			JumpSS TitleMenu
		}
		Item=Post Commands
		{
		}
		Item=Cell Commands
		{
		}
		Item=Program List
		{
		}
	}
	Item=VMG
	{
		Item=Language
		{
			Name=VMGM
			Language=en
			Item=PGC
			{
				Name=MainMenu
				Menu ID=Title Menu
				Uop=000C03E3 
				Next PGC=
				GoUp PGC=
				PG Playback Mode=Sequential Playback
				Repeat Times=0
				PGC Still Time=0
				Palette=DefaultPalette
				Item=Pre Commands
				{
					Mov GPRM1, 1
					if ( GPRM0 == GPRM1 ) JumpTT TitleSet1_Title1
					Mov GPRM1, 2
					if ( GPRM0 == GPRM1 ) Exit
				}
				Item=Post Commands
				{
				}
				Item=Cell Commands
				{
				}
				Item=Program List
				{
				}
			}
			Item=PGC
			{
				Name=MainJumpPGC1
				Menu ID=No Menu
				Uop=000C03E3 
				Next PGC=
				GoUp PGC=
				PG Playback Mode=Sequential Playback
				Repeat Times=0
				PGC Still Time=0
				Palette=DefaultPalette
				Item=Pre Commands
				{
					Mov GPRM2, 1
					if ( GPRM1 == GPRM2 ) JumpTT TitleSet1_Title1
					Mov GPRM2, 2
					if ( GPRM1 == GPRM2 ) LinkPGCN MainMenu
				}
				Item=Post Commands
				{
					LinkPGCN MainMenu
				}
				Item=Cell Commands
				{
				}
				Item=Program List
				{
				}
			}
		}
	}
	Item=VTS01
	{
		Item=Language
		{
			Name=TitleSet1M
			Language=en
			Item=PGC
			{
				Name=TitleSet1Menu
				Menu ID=Root Menu
				Uop=000C03E3 
				Next PGC=
				GoUp PGC=
				PG Playback Mode=Sequential Playback
				Repeat Times=0
				PGC Still Time=0
				Palette=DefaultPalette
				Item=Pre Commands
				{
					JumpVTS_TT TitleSet1_Title1
				}
				Item=Post Commands
				{
				}
				Item=Cell Commands
				{
				}
				Item=Program List
				{
				}
			}
		}
		Item=Title
		{
			Name=TitleSet1_Title1
			Uop=0
			Item=PGC
			{
				Name=TitleSet1_Title1_PGC1
				Menu ID=Title Entry
				Uop=0
				Next PGC=
				Prev PGC=
				GoUp PGC=
				PG Playback Mode=Sequential Playback
				Repeat Times=0
				PGC Still Time=0
				Palette=DefaultPalette
				Item=Pre Commands
				{
				}
				Item=Post Commands
				{
					Mov GPRM0, 2
					CallSS RSM=1, TitleMenu
				}
				Item=Cell Commands
				{
				}
				Item=Program List
				{
					Item=Program
					{
						Name=TitleSet1_Title1_chapter1
						Item=Cell
						{
							Name=TitleSet1_Title1_cell1
							Linked Scene=Segment_1_scn1
							Command=
							Cell Still Time=0
							VOBU Still Flag=False
							Access Restriction Flag=Permitted
							Cell Type=0
							Seamless Flag = Default
						}
					}
				}
			}
			Item=Part of Title List
			{
				Item=TitleSet1_Title1_chapter1
			}
		}
	}
}