Menu generation tool for DVDMaestro.

[vv]

Lot of us on this forum think that DVDMaestro is one of the most favored authoring tools.

Only thing that Maestro lacks is the ability to generate a menu back ground with thumb size images of the chapters for a quick & easy DVD authoring. And probably, a lot of us agree that this is the painful part in the whole DVD authoring process.

I was wondering if we could put together a tool to automatically generate menu background with thumb size images of the chapters.

At the minimum, the tool should do the following:

Input:
1. Accept a Jpeg/Bmp image for the Background.
2. Accept a List of MPEG or AVI files

Processing:
3. Extract first couple of frames as still image from each MPEG/AVI file.
4. Resize these still images to thumb size.
5. On the Background image (point 1), arrange the thumb size images.

Output:
6. Save this as JPEG or BMP.

Any Ideas?

[DVDAdvisor]

Try DVD Menu Studio you can do a lot with it although it may require a little work to do what you are asking

http://www.ezdvdadvisor.com/public/796.cfm

[vv]

I did try DVD Menu Studio. I felt it was like a substute to Adobe Photoshop. I could be wrong. I didnt spend much time with it. Does it extract Images form MPEG files for thumb nails? What all points it can cover from my original post?