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Maybe its a dumb question but being new to dvd authoring, and trying out TMPGenc DVD author 2, I start with an airshow program I have on vhs of 1 hours duration transferred to my PC's HDD from a Panny EH50 dvd recorder.
I wish to have the ability after the dvd is written to see a list of contents of it and jump to the part of the airshow where e.g. a harrier is flying, then to the swordfish, and so on, by clicking on a contents list featuring aircraft names.
I am creating chapters at the start of each of the different aircrafts performance, assuming this is what I need, as they are but minutes long each, but can I give these meaningful names, they have just numbers hh:mm:ss:ff at present which is meaningless to me. Perhaps I need a tracklist, as it appears looking on the net that tracks can be named, but I get the feeling a track is an individual recording, so the entire program is track#1 ?? I sure need some guidance ! Do I need to cut up my program into many bits to get the ability to give them names using track naming ?...so as to name each aircrafts appearance ?
Tutorials on DVD authoring dont cover such an occasion, simply talking of track name and chapters within, not mentioning how a chapter works, how to name it, why have auto chapters where they exist say every 15 seconds, surely a chapter should be the start of something,...meaningless to me !
Please advise, I have many progs like this, not just airshows, where I want to be able to click on a named button to jump to e.g. spitfire within a documentary.
Perhaps I need menus or titles, dunno...please help !
Tried Ulead MF4 and now 5, but its scene selection is too quick and too fiddly, TMPGenc and the frame method it uses is more to my liking as I use Premiere and such is so obvious for sped of use. Also Ulead keeps locking up !
Cheers
Merlin
I wish to have the ability after the dvd is written to see a list of contents of it and jump to the part of the airshow where e.g. a harrier is flying, then to the swordfish, and so on, by clicking on a contents list featuring aircraft names.
I am creating chapters at the start of each of the different aircrafts performance, assuming this is what I need, as they are but minutes long each, but can I give these meaningful names, they have just numbers hh:mm:ss:ff at present which is meaningless to me. Perhaps I need a tracklist, as it appears looking on the net that tracks can be named, but I get the feeling a track is an individual recording, so the entire program is track#1 ?? I sure need some guidance ! Do I need to cut up my program into many bits to get the ability to give them names using track naming ?...so as to name each aircrafts appearance ?
Tutorials on DVD authoring dont cover such an occasion, simply talking of track name and chapters within, not mentioning how a chapter works, how to name it, why have auto chapters where they exist say every 15 seconds, surely a chapter should be the start of something,...meaningless to me !
Please advise, I have many progs like this, not just airshows, where I want to be able to click on a named button to jump to e.g. spitfire within a documentary.
Perhaps I need menus or titles, dunno...please help !
Tried Ulead MF4 and now 5, but its scene selection is too quick and too fiddly, TMPGenc and the frame method it uses is more to my liking as I use Premiere and such is so obvious for sped of use. Also Ulead keeps locking up !
Cheers
Merlin
Premiere has one stumbling block, its avi orientated and efforts to open vro file by renaming as mpg, or vbo files, renaming many for one program as mpg, sees stuttering playback and unclean sound ! Perhaps purchase a prog to turn vro into avi would alleviate such, but avi files are HUGE and thats not a good move at all. 
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