Adding a ReadMe text file to a DVD

[kaygreenhaw]

When I click on the DVD I made there are two folders. ULEADDMF and VIDEO_TS. I made a readme file, put it in its own folder (because under burning options it wouldn't take just a file, it had to be a folder.) but after burning it is so far buried in the ULEADMF folder no one will ever find it. I need it to be visible when the drive is opened.
UNLEADMF/ULEAD_ARCHIVE/PERSONAL/READ ME

How do I get the file or folder to showup when drive is double clicked?
Please tell me this is an easy fix. Nothing else has been on this project. I'm so close to finished. If I do trial and error each burn takes an hour.
Thanks in advance for your help.
K

[Davidk]

Tricky. In part, because it's not "video" and presumably you want it to be there (paused) for enough time to be 'read'. Opening (playing) the disk will take you immediately to a menu, or if there is not one, to the video on the disk.
Importing a doc or pdf file to the burn timeline doesn't work (file format mismatch error). So, try this.
1. For each page of read me, scan as a jpg image and insert the jpg images in the edit mode main time line in page sequence. Stretch each page for long enough to be read - say 20 sec for a full page, but time yourself reading it. You could even dress it up with some voiceover and a light music background. With each page there, render the whole sequence as an a mpg file. Call it "read me" or something suitable.
2. In your burn panel compilation, tick the menu box and import the read me.mpg file as the first item that will appear in a menu. If you have an intro clip, the read me item becomes the 2nd item in the burn clip list.

And when disk plays and your menu item opens, and pauses for action selection, there will be in the menu the read me file, and at least one and possibly the whole collection of project items you have created.

[lata]

Hi

Adding a read me file to the disc root cannot be done using Video Studio.
It will have to be added to the Personal folder options and that goes to
ULEADDMF\ULEAD_ARCHIVE\PERSONAL\
At least I do not know of a way to do that.
A note on your disc surface showing the location of the ReadMe may be the easiest way.
Otherwise the options described by David to add the details to the DVD

You mention an hour to burn your disc.

If you first convert your project to Mpeg2, ( a DVD Compliant file) then start a new project, share Disc DVD, adding the new Mpeg2 here, the process would not use Convert Title, the burn process would be simply a matter of burning the disc and not converting the project files.
That should burn a disc in approx. 10 minutes.

If you choose to create a disc image, you can play that to check quality before burning the iso to disc. Knowing the dvd is ok before burning avoids those coasters.

By the way, do you need a DVD as such, or a data disc that will be accessed using a computer not a DVD Player?

[LeGrand]

Tricky. In part, because it's not "video" and presumably you want it to be there (paused) for enough time to be 'read'. Opening (playing) the disk will take you immediately to a menu, or if there is not one, to the video on the disk.
Importing a doc or pdf file to the burn timeline doesn't work (file format mismatch error). So, try this.
1. For each page of read me, scan as a jpg image and insert the jpg images in the edit mode main time line in page sequence. Stretch each page for long enough to be read - say 20 sec for a full page, but time yourself reading it. You could even dress it up with some voiceover and a light music background. With each page there, render the whole sequence as an a mpg file. Call it "read me" or something suitable.
2. In your burn panel compilation, tick the menu box and import the read me.mpg file as the first item that will appear in a menu. If you have an intro clip, the read me item becomes the 2nd item in the burn clip list.

And when disk plays and your menu item opens, and pauses for action selection, there will be in the menu the read me file, and at least one and possibly the whole collection of project items you have created.

He could create a video with voiceover with TitlerPro or just text and a beautiful background or video as he like and the text will unfold while et talk (or Not) . After he do like your second item ???

[kaygreenhaw]

Thanks for the replies. I thought I had this figured out. I built an .iso file with the VIDEO_TS folder then took that to Nero and added my read me folder to the build there. It worked fine for me, but my tester/editor, who is the one who needed a README on how to open video on a computer, said it crashed her computer.
So, burned another one. Her response was "DVD does not work on computer. Goes to play first thing I click on but freezes when I return to menu. Played on DVD player fine."
So, I tried again, this time using the regular burn DVD thing instead of the VideoDVD burn. This one didn't work in MY DVD player. Computer was fine.
Next I burned another one on the VideoDVD setting. Really like the first one hoping it was just a bad disc. computer yes, DVD player, played the intro then stopped before the first menu.
ideas? The making a video won't work because my "user" is not computer literate enough to know how to start a video on a computer. Go figure.
I guess putting directions on the label is the only thing I can think of. VideoStudio should have a way to add a README file...sigh.

[Scubbie]

Is it possible to create an ISO file and manually edit the ISO file and add the readme file in a suitable folder?

There are some free products out there to edit iso files and it shouldn't be too difficult to add the files this way.

[kaygreenhaw]

I took the VIDEO_TS folder and the AUDIO_TS folder from the DVD folder I had VideoStudio make and added my README folder to burn in NERO Burning ROM. Burned it as a Video DVD. Worked in Computer, showed README folder...I thought I was home free. BUT on the DVD player it plays the intro video then stops. The rest is there, I can get to it, but no menus so a user won't be able to figure it out. All my logic has failed me. sigh

[lata]

The making a video won't work because my "user" is not computer literate enough to know how to start a video on a computer. Go figure.

Set up user pc to auto play DVD when disc inserted