Hello. I am embraking on my first DVD authoring adventure and am looking for a little guidance to get me started. An old band I used to play with had a big reunion gig recently, and I recorded the video with a new Panasonic 40GB HDD camera. Separately, I recorded the sound using ProTools on a PC I brought with. I would ultimately like to produce a nice DVD of the event, preferably with DVD menu options ("play", "scene selection", etc.) I have already mixed the sound down to three separate .wav files (one for each set). The digital video is currently in big 4GB chunks that I have downloaded to my PC. My main issue is what software to use for this project (cheap is good, as is usability). I messed around briefly with MovieMaker (as it was on my machine), but quickly realized that it will not do menu creation for a DVD project (it also choked on importing the 4GB video files). I've seen some DVD authoring freeware out there, but again, really could use some help deciding which one to try. Thanks in advance for any help that folks can give! Steve
DVD flick offers very basic authoring, inasmuch as you can load a video source, then edit it to add an audio track (optionally remove the audio from the imported source video)- it assumes however that the video and audio are in sync, because there is no provision for adjusting either. It might suit, but on the other hand, it does sound like your needs may be more than it can handle. http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_tools/dvd_flick.cfm
Thanks Attar. Yeah - DVD Flick probably wouldn't cut it, as I will definitely need to do some synching of video and audio clips. I was just messing around with some freeware called AVS4You, and while it has the ability to create menus like I want, it seems pretty weak on the audio side of things.
