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REVIEW OF DVD MENU MAKING SOFTWARE
Date created: 2009-01-22
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I am looking at creating a DVD with Menus. Specifically a menu system which could have an unlimited number of scenes or chapters on a single menu or on a single sub menu.
PLEASE SUGGEST A PEICE OF SOFTWARE which allows you to create menus with an unlimited number of videos per menu. 50 videos per menu should be good for now.
In other words, the number of videos per menu should be only limted to the number of images or links I want to place on the screen. For example, I want to drag and drop 48 chapters onto a single menu item on a dvd and the menu system in the dvd authoring software will automatically size the videos(or thumbnails) to all fit on the viewable screen.
Well you might say that is a lot for a single menu. Not actually. TV's now are up to 5 feet wide. We should be able to easily see 48 different scenes on a single screne nicely. Now if I was watching the
DVD on a ipod or nano the 48 pictures would be rather small. Well I do not plan to watch these video on this or even if I posted this video on YouTube in would be pretty small..Again my target presention
is on a 5 foot wide screen.
This is a very important feature to have since blu-ray disks (Bluray disk) are now out. Which hold 4+ times the amount of a DVD. So to avoid paging (using the dvd remote) and looking at up to 8 different
menus. I want to show all the scenes on a single screen..
About the movie.
This movie has 48 different chapters or 48 different scenes. This video is 60 minutes in length.
I have purchased ROXIO 2009 ULTIMATE / and have used WINDOWS DVD MAKER (native to vista ultimate). Both of these softwares limit the number of movies you can include into a single menu. Yes ROXIO allows you to drag one movie at a time to the parent menu. But It is a very slow
process and in the end when you try to open the project again it says I have an error in my project.
RIXIO 2009 also has other issues:
1> can not easily resize menu items; and I definately can not determine if two menu items are the same sized or spaced equally apart from each other or other items on the screen. Yes it has a dotted lines for alignment, but it is a really cheesy interface. Drag and Drop was really what I was looking for. Anyways: ROXIO did not fulfill my needs. Windows DVD Maker produces FANCY screens, much cooler than the ROXIO stuff. Plus it was a lot easier to use. But Windows Vists DVD Maker fell short in the menu department. Yes it said you could create custom menu's but I did not find out to do this.
Pinnacle Studio 11 was what I was looking for:
Pinnacle studio 11 has easy to use drag and drop features. It functions much like a power point software. And Yes, I placed about 50 menu Items on the screen and it worked perfectly. Plust I only had to create the first row of clips, and copy and paste the remaining rows. In order to actually insert the bookmarks into the MENU ITEMS. it was a simple drag and drop.
I have not tried NERO or any other Sonic Solutions yet. I was hoping someone good help with the
selection of software which is easy to used(drag and drop) and has the capacity to create unlimited links on a single menu. What would be really cool if I could have all my links on a single screen and then as I used my dvd remote control to highlight a link it would automatically get BIGGER temporarily. Similar to how the apple iphone works.
Bottom line: it would be nice to have drag and drop with microsoft power point features (such as alignment, copy and paste, grouping, justification). In general DVD creation software should be just as easy to use.
SEARCH ENGINE REFERENCE:
DVD MENU WITH MORE THAN 6 MOVIES
DVD MENU WITH UNLIMITED NUMBER OF CHAPTERS PER SCENE
DVD MENU WITH UNLIMITED SCENES
ROXIO DVD MENU TEMPLATE CHAPTERS
ROXIO DVD MENU TEMPLATE
how to create a menu with more than 6 links
DVD MENU MORE THAN 6 VIDEOS PER SCENE
DVD MENU MORE THAN 10 VIDEOS PER SUBMENU
DVD MENU MORE THAN 10 SCENES PER SUBMENU
Pinnacle Studio 11
Nero DVD MAKER
How to make DVDs
DVD STUDIO MAKER
burn dvds with lots of movies
avi movies and mpg movies
windows movie maker
windows media player
how to make an impressive dvd menu system
adobe dvd software