VideoStudio 10 Menu/Chapter help

shayner · Post by **shayner** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:37 pm

Can some one help me, or point me to the tutorial for this.

I have a rather large project. It will have A LOT of chapters. How do I organize the chapters into groups

For example lets say the life of a child

Beginning
-birth
-adolesent year
-teen years

Middle
-Highschool
-college

Adult
-first job
-ect
-ect

you get the point. but, on the main menu, you would have
Beginning
Middle
Adult

When you choose one of those options, you get the sub menus.

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:52 pm

If you create 3 separate video Titles (Beginning, Middle, Adult), you can then add your chapter points to each Title, and then have the Authoring program create a chapter menu (as well as a Title Menu). This should give you the menu structure you have described.

I would test it on some small files first. Just use 3 small video clips, with each having a couple of chapters. Author to your hard drive, and playback using WinDVD or PowerDVD to make sure it's what you are looking for...

Regards,
George

shayner · Post by **shayner** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:28 pm

GeorgeW wrote:If you create 3 separate video Titles (Beginning, Middle, Adult), you can then add your chapter points to each Title, and then have the Authoring program create a chapter menu (as well as a Title Menu). This should give you the menu structure you have described.

I would test it on some small files first. Just use 3 small video clips, with each having a couple of chapters. Author to your hard drive, and playback using WinDVD or PowerDVD to make sure it's what you are looking for...
Regards,
George

when/where/how do i make the 3 seperate titles? Can this be done through the DVD Wizard?

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:37 pm

How do you plan to get the video into your computer? What format(s) do you currently have, and what device(s) do you plan to use for getting video onto your hard drive

Regards,
George

shayner · Post by **shayner** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:41 pm

GeorgeW wrote:How do you plan to get the video into your computer? What format(s) do you currently have, and what device(s) do you plan to use for getting video onto your hard drive

Regards,
George

forgive me if i use the wrong terminology here

I have a little knowlege of how to do this(maybe enought to be dangerous). I did a very small project of my 2 year olds b-day. I setup the main page with a button to each part of the party, but no submenus to those buttons

I captured the video from my Sony MiniDV SC36 camcorder through firewire.

Captured with VS10 capturing program. The captured Video is on my external 500GB HHD.

Sorry for the lack of info, but i hope this helps

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:42 pm

Have a read of the User's Manual. Video projects and chapters starts on page 119.