DVD without menu

surfer · Post by **surfer** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:50 am

I have a avi file which must be converted to a dvd. Now when in Videostudio X3 i choose: dvdmoviefactory X3.
Adding the file and then i can only go to edit menu, but there is no choice to make the dvd without menu and titels etc....

It must be easy off courcse but i cannot find the possiblilty...

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:06 pm

Well, if I understand the Dutch, you are asking the question: but I am afraid the answer is that you cannot make a DVD without a menu using DVD Factory 2010.

You can, however, do so if you manage to download the "new" burning module assistant which is a slight remake of the older Movie Factory 7 SE -- but please see the very top Sticky post on this Board for all the information on that.

Accolades · Post by **Accolades** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:23 pm

If you have created the AVI video file then why not just burn it as a DATA DVD ?

If that is the only file on the DVD and assuming your DVD player will play AVI files will still work ?

surfer · Post by **surfer** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:31 pm

Thanks. But i then use Windows 7 dvd maker although i there is also no option to make a dvd without a menu.

Is this such a strange request?

I have recorded a presentation with my camcorder for my daughter which she then plays along with her presentation on school. But a menu is not nessesairy, that is: i want no menu.
But i am not sure if the dvdplayer where it is played plays avi files so i make a dvd to make sure that she can play it on school.
Thats why i don't want a avi nor mpeg but DVD format. It is one file which must be played when the dvd is put in the dvdplayer.

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:46 pm

try dvd flick, I'm sure that makes dvds without menu's. You'll need to check the dvd player can read it though, as most will be used to finding a menu.
Can they play the movie from a computer?

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 5:42 pm

I wouldn't recommend burning the AVI file as a data-file, unless you're only going to play the disc on a computer.

Once you find the software to do it, the DVD player shouldn't have any trouble if there's no menu. For, example DVDs often have a "first play" title that plays before the menu pops-up.

I've made menu-less DVDs with DVD Workshop (now obsolete). And, I'm pretty sure DVD-Lab ($100 - $250 USD) can do it too.

I haven't tried DVD Flick (FREE!!!) or DVD Styler (FREE!!!). But, I might try-out DVD Styler on my next project... It looks like a very powerful program!

P.S.
The programs I mention above are only DVD authoring programs. They are NOT video editing programs.

zorza · Post by **zorza** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:12 pm

VideoStudio X2 can do it easily.

I still don't understand why they would take options off programs when they are already implemented...

Zorza

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:09 pm

First, you appear to have ignored my suggestion about adding Movie Factory 7 SE -- that will allow burning a DVD without a menu.

Next, you don't say what type of AVI you have, but if you are wanting it on a DVD, I would guess it is either a DivX or XVid movie. They of course are mpeg-4, but use the extension "avi". If it is in fact such a video, then the suggestion above about simply burning it to DVD as a data file is the correct one. But your DVD player must have a DivX sticker along the top to show that it can detect and play DivX movies...