Can i make VCDs and SVCDs with menus and sub-menus?

[Ticiano]

I was trying to create a SVCD with this kind of menus. That was a session of my band playing at my house garage and the menu would be like this:

Begin Movie
Interview
Music Selection:

This link "music selection" would so take to the other menu with the music list.

Sure this is possible in DVD, but when i tryed to make a SVCD with this kind of menu with Pinnacle Studio 8, the software crashed during the "disk compilation" fase. I was observing and verified that the crash happens just when was compiling the link that take to the other menu.

So i suspect i can't do links between two menus, just between a menu and a movie scene...

Any help?

Thank you guys!

[kitty]

Yes, very easy to do with the right software. Look at the freeware VCDeasy program (GUI for vcdimager) at http://www.vcdeasy.org/ This will allow nested menus and more.

[Ticiano]

VCDEasy can work with SVCD too?

[adam]

Yes.

[Ticiano]

man... i was trying with this VCDEasy and i just can´t see what i'm doing... just a kind of code that seams like HTML or something... i want something more newbie friendly! LoL!

[themamboman]

I use TSCV myself. It is another front end to vcdxbuild, and builds the xml code in the background. Setting menu jump points isn't the most intuitive, but I figured it out after a few attempts.

I thought that the menu controls in I-Author were pretty good, but that is/was a commercial program, and made non-standard folder names, which some DVD players might not like.

[Ticiano]

What about Ulead DVD MovieFactory?

[Heavensent]

im using "dvd workshop"
its grate, very eazy to understand.
you can make whatever menu you like.

[kitty]

What do you want - crashes in Pinnacle or take a few minutes to learn a more powerful program?

Yes VCDeasy makes a XML file to feed to vcdimager but you don't need tgo worry about it - go to the screen where you add menus and clips - very easy. It will make a bin/cue file set which can be burned a number of ways (see Author section on this site).

[Ticiano]

I'm trying this Ulead stuff and it looks good. I'll learn about XML someday!

[Ticiano]

Man... i'm using DVD Workshop and its great! Thanks for the tip. Thanks for the VCDEasy tip too, but i don't have the time to learn XML now, maybe latter!

[susie]

Hi all, I just have a quick question on VCDEasy.

If I capture a few music videos with my TV wonder and then try to create a VCD with a menu that I can select to play which ever song I want to using the dvd remote....is this possible. The menu would be like a DVD menu.

Thanks