Isuue: I video taped an event by hooking my camcorder to my laptop. The software that I used was WMM (Window's Movie Maker). I then edited the video and burned it to DVD. All is well... It plays properly and so forth. Yet, it's not "fancy" enough.
I want to author the DVD. I want menus. I want to create my own backgrounds etc...
So, I loaded the WMM file into Nero. (I don't know the version, it came on my laptop, Nero Express?) This will allow me to do what I want but only to a point. I can have a customised menu screen with one button that plays the DVD. If I go into the file and make chapters I then can have a one page menu that has buttons for each chapter. But this still is not what I want...
What I Want: 1. A main menu.
2. On that menu, three buttons.
3. The first button plays entire movie
4. The second button takes you to a chapters menu (You can guess what you do in the "Chapters Menu".
5. The third button will play a short "extra".
Any suggestions?
Any Programs?
The cheaper the better.
Remember, I'm dealing with a WMM video.
PS. Speaking of WMM...
I wouldn't mind that whatever program you suggest, if it has a input from camcorder function. Then I wouldn't use WMM in the future.
I've used Nero in the past and got away from it because it's very restrictive, and I usually have issues with ANY program that tries to "do it all". That being said, however, I believe there is a way to create a "title menu" using Nero (if I remember correctly you have to create a title menu, and chapter menu) with it linking to the first chapter of the first title (the main video) as the "play all" button. You could then have a text link to the chapter menu, and the extra could be title 2 from your title menu.
I use Pinnacle. I have used 8, 9 and now I am using 10. I have very seldom ever had a problem. My PCs are usually close to cutting edge.
Pinnacle version 109 does all this stuff, and it is very fun making the movies! You can get it for $100.
My current PC has a Intel dual core 2 6600, 2 GB of RAM, a 7800 GT Nvidia graphics card, and as suggested, a seperate hard drive for storing the files because they are HUGE!
