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Thanks to this forum I've just had some success in backing up my dvd's and now I'm ready to make dvd's from our digital camera movie clips and stills.
In fact I've started. I'm using Nero Vision. It is part of my Nero 7 installation.
My digital camera will only make 3minute movies at a time. Generally turns out to be even more than one wants.
So when it comes to making the dvd I find myself inserting heaps of little movie clips into it. I try to minimise those by 'merging' many of them. But i've still got about twenty.
And we've got hundreds of stills so I'm making 'slide shows' inside the dvd, too.
Nero only allows 100 stills per slide show. So I've got many slide shows, too. In fact many more than I'm comfortable with. So I've stopped the process at only 3gig used and many more clips and stills in my collection.
Because this first effort has raised some questions:
1. Is Nero a useful tool for this task or is it too simple or somesuch? What is the tool of choice?
And the answer here, I'd say, would be threefold, at least: (a) Best in the world regardless of price. Speaks for itself, this choice.
(b) Best in the world for free for those with very limited budgets and wide ranging computer software needs (me, usually, having this Nero 7 is an exceptional possession for me). This option is where I'm usually at and it often means using many pieces of sometimes difficult software - sometimes with a steep learning curve.
(c) The best in the world that falls between those two. Like the 'middle way'.
This is where I'd expect Nero to fall, if it is acceptable at all.
2. Many people must have the 'many film clips' problem. How is it customarily dealt with? Make a 'movie' from them all? I could have done that in Nero but didn't. I doubt my pages of menus is the way to go. I'm just doing it for the sake of getting something burned. (I've got to show the wife some production )
3. How about the many slide shows? These all become menu choices. The thing has about six pages of menus. It's ridiculous. But I haven't seen any alternative - such as some way to group chunks of them together under one menu (but still have them in their 'slide shows'). Is there any software or methods for artfully dealing with scads of stills on a dvd, thumbnailing them perhaps as we do on computer and then blowing up the ones you are interested in?
4. I would have liked to do some 'voice overs' (phrase I picked up somewhere, hope I'm using it correctly) behind the slide shows in particular but even behind the movies, too, and between them. I didn't see any option for this (but very well might have missed it). Any comments on that aspect?
Well that's it. In another fifteen minutes my first dvd will be ready.
I like the space - 4 gigs is great - but of almost equal importance to me is the quality, the definition. I was making VCD's and they were shocking. Then I moved to SVCD and it was much better and gave me a thirst for dvd. You didn't want to know that, did you? Nobody asked me that. I talk way, way, way too much.
regards,
ab
In fact I've started. I'm using Nero Vision. It is part of my Nero 7 installation.
My digital camera will only make 3minute movies at a time. Generally turns out to be even more than one wants.
So when it comes to making the dvd I find myself inserting heaps of little movie clips into it. I try to minimise those by 'merging' many of them. But i've still got about twenty.
And we've got hundreds of stills so I'm making 'slide shows' inside the dvd, too.
Nero only allows 100 stills per slide show. So I've got many slide shows, too. In fact many more than I'm comfortable with. So I've stopped the process at only 3gig used and many more clips and stills in my collection.
Because this first effort has raised some questions:
1. Is Nero a useful tool for this task or is it too simple or somesuch? What is the tool of choice?
And the answer here, I'd say, would be threefold, at least: (a) Best in the world regardless of price. Speaks for itself, this choice.
(b) Best in the world for free for those with very limited budgets and wide ranging computer software needs (me, usually, having this Nero 7 is an exceptional possession for me). This option is where I'm usually at and it often means using many pieces of sometimes difficult software - sometimes with a steep learning curve.
(c) The best in the world that falls between those two. Like the 'middle way'.
This is where I'd expect Nero to fall, if it is acceptable at all.
2. Many people must have the 'many film clips' problem. How is it customarily dealt with? Make a 'movie' from them all? I could have done that in Nero but didn't. I doubt my pages of menus is the way to go. I'm just doing it for the sake of getting something burned. (I've got to show the wife some production )
3. How about the many slide shows? These all become menu choices. The thing has about six pages of menus. It's ridiculous. But I haven't seen any alternative - such as some way to group chunks of them together under one menu (but still have them in their 'slide shows'). Is there any software or methods for artfully dealing with scads of stills on a dvd, thumbnailing them perhaps as we do on computer and then blowing up the ones you are interested in?
4. I would have liked to do some 'voice overs' (phrase I picked up somewhere, hope I'm using it correctly) behind the slide shows in particular but even behind the movies, too, and between them. I didn't see any option for this (but very well might have missed it). Any comments on that aspect?
Well that's it. In another fifteen minutes my first dvd will be ready.
I like the space - 4 gigs is great - but of almost equal importance to me is the quality, the definition. I was making VCD's and they were shocking. Then I moved to SVCD and it was much better and gave me a thirst for dvd. You didn't want to know that, did you? Nobody asked me that. I talk way, way, way too much.
regards,
ab
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