How to insert a title that works

[johnmnz]

I have just made another coaster. I have a project with 100 clips and wanted to put a title picture in it. So I clicked on Title, grabbed a JPG, put "What we did in 2006" as the top title and "Featuring Us" as the lower title. I set the duration to 20 seconds. Then I clicked on Burn which showed a progress bar that said that converting the title was taking an hour. When I play the DVD, my title JPG, with text, flashes up for a second and then the entire DVD plays with no sound and with "Featuring Us" on the bottom of the entire movie.
I saved the file to my hard drive as well as to a DVD but Windows Media player won't play it.
So I have two problems - how do I create a title shot and how can I see what my movie looks like before I burn it to DVD?

[Ken Berry]

I think in your case, it sounds as though you are jumping a step. When in doubt, read the top sticky post containing Recommended Procedures. Essentially, though, it advises that once you are finished editing, go to Share > Create Video File > DVD to produce a DVD-compatible mpeg-2. Apart from anything else, this will also give you the chance of seeing whether your title has worked effectively. But it sounds to me that you may not have taken this step and gone straight from the project to the burn stage.

Under our suggested workflow, you only start the burn process once you have produced this mpeg-2 file (Share > Create Disc > DVD), and in the burning module, insert the mpeg-2 file(s) you have produced in the intermediate step above, create your menus and burn.

I normally produce a Video_TS file in the burning phase, rather than actually burning a disc. Some people produce a disc image file instead (.ISO). Either way, you can use software DVD players to play these back to see if everything looks OK before you actually burn it to disc. And it also gives you the option of burning numerous discs if you decide you want to give your masterpiece a wide distribution...

[BrianCee]

You might also like to tell us a bit more about how you actually created the title which you say did not work - and are you sure you set the duration to 20 seconds ?? - maybe you set it to 20 minutes ?

[Rich2Putt]

VS only goes to 99 clips.........not sure how you achived 100.

[wywso0]

I hadn't realised that there was a 99 clip limit. Does this mean that slide shows are limited to 99 slides too?

[Rich2Putt]

I hadn't realised that there was a 99 clip limit. Does this mean that slide shows are limited to 99 slides too?

If you are using VS10+ for Editing, you are limited to 99 clips per project.
You can add as many pictures for a slide show as you want. Once you reach the 99 clip limit in a project, you render & create a vidoe file. Then start a new project, add the project that you just save as a video file & add it to the first clip of the new project & you'll have 98 more clips if you so choose to continue...etc.........

[Black Lab]

If you are using VS10+ for Editing, you are limited to 99 clips per project.

That is incorrect.

The number of clips you can have in a project is unlimited. What you are limited to is the number of DVD chapters a clip can have, which is 99. See this post for more info: http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=15944

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Reading this post leaves me a little confused.

John Mycroft please reply to the first posting by Ken Berry

Trevor