I'm new to this whole DVD burning sh*t. I bought 'Waiting' on DVD yesterday (which, by the way, is hilarious) and I wanted to make a back-up copy. I've figured out how to use DVD Shrink, and it seems like a pretty good tool. But i'm not a big fan of just poppin' the DVD in and it starts playing. I Like menus, i'm not a greedy person, I would just like maybe a picture of my choice in the background and a textbutton that says PLAY MOVIE. Not too much to ask. So my question is ... what's the best program where I can take the ISO file from DVD Shrink and make a simple menu. I don't care about music, flashing lights, chapter menus, just want a PICTURE and a PLAY MOVIE button. Can anybody help me out? I'd really appreciate it
I was just searching around on these forums, and I came across a program called DVDStyler (http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_tools/dvdstyler.cfm) and that seems simple. It doesn't say anything about the Iso file from DVD Shrink though, so i'm not sure if this would work. I'm completely lost!
I downloaded the demo verison of DVD-lab ......... and I don't see where I can insert a picture on my menu
Molder<--- is right just copy the whole thing not just the movie but to make like back rounds and stuff i use Nero for like avi filempg ---> to make a DVD but taks a long time to make it in to dvd from AVI files because nero makes them to mpeg-2 or some thing like that lol
hey cverse i dont know if dvdstlyer supports what your trying to do but i know that dvd lab pro will ...and thats not free. there are of coarse other ways to do it which arent easy (stuff like editing the .ifo and add .vob to that .iso) and will take a lot of effort heres a link to some guides on that type of stuff ...also just on how to use dvdshrink: http://www.videohelp.com/guides.php...=%&listallusers=&search=Search+or+List+Guides my suggestion is to use dvd shrink ...its got tons of options and is probly the best tool to use for backin up dvd9 when you use the full disc backup mode select the menus part of it. on that pull down you can choose either still image (choose a picture fom your comp to be the background ...the music and all stays the same) pr still pictures (the background is no longer a movie but a slide show) both are much smaller than the origional ...you can also keep the menu and compress it ...then get rid of extras or compres them. then set main movie on automatic compression and itll only compress it enough to fit on the disc gl -nomad311
First thing's first, I wanna thank you guys for all the help. With that said, i'm gonna ask for more help .... 1.) I took your advice and was workin' with DVD-Lab and I love it, I love all the features. It's really a big help. I'm gonna use a different example this time, I'm trying to back up my copy of "The Fog" and I got the VOB in DVD-Lab and it's all set up and ready to go. So I go to make the menu. And I get a wallpaper somebody made from the interent and insert it as a background. I put in my "Play Movie" button. And it's all gravy. I burned it. Poppped it in the DVD player and it seems the edges are cut off all the way around. And When I look at the screen where the menu is, it has two sets of Dotted-Lined squares. My question is ..... How do I get the picture to get cropped into one of those squares since it's only inserted as a background ???? 2.) I use DVD Shrink to get the VOB file. With "The Fog" I could take out all the extras and whatnot and have the file go to I think about 4.2 Gigs (Just an estimate) but it was enough room for me to throw it in DVD Lab and have room to manuever. My question is for those DVD's that are sitting on th edge of 4.7 so i'd have to reduce the quality with the "No Compression" setting right? What I want to know is what percentage is considered "Bad Quality" ??? My main goal is to watch a clean movie, but I would just like to know how far I can go down on that before it starts to look like sh** ?????? Again, I appreciate all the help and if you could help me out one more time, that would be great.
I figured out how to take care of the first part there, but I could still use some help on the second.
Couple things here: One. if you want to make menus for movies you can also use NERO Express. You can make splash screen and chapters etc.... fairly easy to do also. Second. If you want to make video size smaller. I suggest killing some other things in dvd. When "Sin City" was released I didnt have a double layer burner yet. So I went through and killed all the extras with dvd shrink and replaced them with a still image. One option would have saved me a lot of time and that was to kill the 5.1 audio, which takes up a lot of space. But I wanted to preserve the audio as most people might. So there are some options to try. Playing with the compression can be funny and may give you undedesirable results. I can not give you an exact answer as to what size to you. But maybe these other options may help
Alright fellas, I think i'm just about good on this, i'm still wondering what the quality for DVD Shrink should be to still be considered good quality. And I noticed something when I was backing up "The Fog" with DVD-Lab When I burned the Widescreen DVD I noticed that it cut off parts of each side. I went to http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/Helppro/index.htm and was reading up on it. and this is what it said ..... Aspect Ratio There are two aspect ratios supported by DVD: 4:3 (also called "Normal" or "Full Size") and 16:9 ("Wide Screen"). Both aspect ratios use the same picture size, however the 16:9 (widescreen anamorphic) image is horizontally compressed on DVD and then stretched by the DVD player when viewing. 4:3 is the aspect ratio of a normal TV (Image 1). 16:9 is the aspect ratio of a widescreen TV (Image 2). A 16:9 feature will be letterboxed on 4:3 TV (Image 3) or Pan & Scan (Image 1). If you want author a 16:9 movie First, be sure to enable the 16:9 flag during encoding of your MPEG video file, before bringing that video file into DVD-lab as an Asset. Within your DVD-lab Project, you can setup in Project Properties how the player should play the 16:9 on a 4:3 TV. In the Project Properties window, under the heading "16:9 Display Mode" are pull-down selections for: Automatic - Player Decide (the default), Pan & Scan and LetterBox. For most situations, the default Automatic - Player Decide is probably best. Pan & Scan mode will show the movie on a 4:3 TV in Pan-Scan mode (crop the left and right side to fit to the 4:3) whilst the LetterBox mode will add black bars above and below the movie frame. ~~~~~~ Now there it says "For most situations, the default Automatic - Player Decide is probably best." because if you to Pan & Scan it'll make it into 4:3 and if you do letterbox, it'll make my widescreen even MORE widescreen. But i'm pretty damn sure that I had it on Automatic when I backed up "The Fog" so is there anyway to make sure or do I just have to hope that it'll turn out the way I want?
CVerse, Re: your quality issue. For me it depends on what I'm backing up and for who (or is it whom), if it's one of the kids DVD's, who cares!!, kids will watch anything, (remember VHS tapes that have been watched 1000 times, get my point. For things that I like to watch, well I don't back them up, lets face it, I watch a movie and 3 years later I will pull it out and say "I've seen this" and put it back. Oh, but there is another factor wink wink nudge nudge, if I was to "backup" a movie for myself 70% is great, 55% is exceptable (I own a 68cm CRT) if you have a huge TV then 70% is probably as low as you might go. Hope this helps. M
