VIDEO to DVD HELP!

[David55]

I agree with what has been said about Encore...

When I tried to make my first DVD for my middle school graduation video, I spend days and days learning that program. It took me about two weeks to produce the whole DVD, including photoshoped menus, background videos, chapters etc. It is really not a good idea for just getting a video onto a DVD.

And WMM...I remember I used to do some pretty cool movies with it. Since I moved to Premiere, I get frustrated just by looking at that program. It is a real torture trying to edit a video with it (no jog wheel and layers is the most frustrating part about it).

[DonRotolo]

OK, all:

I have a copy of Pinnacle Studio 8 (2 versions old), and after editing down the video I used the "make a disk" option. It happily burned the DVD-R but of the three DVD players in the house none will play it. They all "try" to load/read the disk, but none are successful -they just sit there, 'loading...'

From the experts out there: What kind of file is a regular ordinary DVD supposed to be? I saw .AVI mentioned.

BTW, the disk created plays just fine in a computer, but using Windoze media player...

(and for some reason my DVD+/-RW drive won't recognize the HP CD-R media I have as blank, so i can't make a VCD...)

Don

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

OK, all:


From the experts out there: What kind of file is a regular ordinary DVD supposed to be? I saw .AVI mentioned.

Alright here it goes. The video must be burned at a 720X480 format with the NTSC-DV .avi format. I know this debate about using adobe encore DVD has been going on for a long time but i still stress using it. All of my DVDs that I burn have no flaws in them and can play in any DVD player. Yes it took me some time to figure things out but within a day I could easily burn one DVD with the preset background. Now I can make DVD menu backgrounds in a snap after using it a little while.

If you are still think adobe Encore DVD is to complicated You may also want to try Power producer gold. I've only had a couple problems with that program. (I likes to freeze once in a while) That program will also spit out DVDs that will play in any DVD player.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by BuddyB309

Now I can make DVD menu backgrounds in a snap.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Is it essential that a menu structure is defined, or can you just drop the file onto a DVD and it'll play? Or?

Don