In following the posts and tutorials I got the impression you should save the entire VSP project to an MPEG 2 video file then use that file to author the DVD, and add menus in the burn to DVD stage. When you do that you end up with one MPEG file with no way to add thumbnail menus etc. The other way would be to save each clip as a seperate MPEG file and then assemble them with menus during the burn stage but that doesn't seem right either?
What am I missing here?
Lynn
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Question:
I am assuming that you want a DVD with a chapter menu. There are a couple of ways of doing this, depending on which version of Video Studio you are using.
In VS10, you can add chapter points during the editing phase -- look at the manual for that. To get them to work in the menu building/burning phase, however, you have to apply the update patch.
Otherwise, for VS10 and previous versions, the standard way is to open the burning module (Share > Create Disc), insert the DVD-compatible mpeg-2 you created at the end of the editing process (Share > Create Video File > DVD). Make sure to tick the box beside "Create Menu" (can't remember the exact wording as I don't have VS loaded on this computer -- am at my beach house for Easter). Then click on "Add/Edit Chapters" just above it.
The latter opens a new screen and you create your chapter points here by dividing up your video either by time (say, every 2 minutes) or scene. If using VS10, the chapter points you inserted during the editing phase should also show up. You can either leave them or remove or vary some or all of them...
Then go back to the main burning page and proceed to preview your menu and then burn.
Answer: the whole point!What am I missing here?
I am assuming that you want a DVD with a chapter menu. There are a couple of ways of doing this, depending on which version of Video Studio you are using.
In VS10, you can add chapter points during the editing phase -- look at the manual for that. To get them to work in the menu building/burning phase, however, you have to apply the update patch.
Otherwise, for VS10 and previous versions, the standard way is to open the burning module (Share > Create Disc), insert the DVD-compatible mpeg-2 you created at the end of the editing process (Share > Create Video File > DVD). Make sure to tick the box beside "Create Menu" (can't remember the exact wording as I don't have VS loaded on this computer -- am at my beach house for Easter). Then click on "Add/Edit Chapters" just above it.
The latter opens a new screen and you create your chapter points here by dividing up your video either by time (say, every 2 minutes) or scene. If using VS10, the chapter points you inserted during the editing phase should also show up. You can either leave them or remove or vary some or all of them...
Then go back to the main burning page and proceed to preview your menu and then burn.
Ken Berry