Hello,
Sorry for the delay in answering you.
The instruction I gave was meant to apply to Movie Maker not Nero...so,
lets go through it all in one...
Having edited your movie in movie maker...
1) In Movie Maker click on FILE > SAVE MOVIE FILE
2) Carefully complete the information asked for in the wizard making a
written note of EXACTLY where you are going to save your Movie
3) When it asks what format you want answer by selecting DV-AVI in the drop
down combo box. If you do not see the option DV-AVI then just below the
drop down box there is another option called Show More Options (or
choices). Select that and then go find DV-AVI
4) The process may take quite a while...dependent on size of eventual file,
complexity of transitions and effects etc etc.
5) When it has finished...Click on FILE > SAVE (this is not the same as
Save Movie) The result will be that your project is saved just in case you
need to go back and do it all again.
START NERO VISION EXPRESS . The following is based on version 3 of this
spftware.
6) Click on Make DVD then click on DVD-VIDEO [DO not select DVD-Video (VR)]
7) Click on Add Video Files, navigate to the location you saved your video
, select it and click open
8) Click on Create Chapters.
9) By clicking on the timeline first at roughly the place you want a
chapter point to appear and then fine tuning it with the time indicator and
then clicking on the last Icon ion the row of Icons you will create a
chapter point. A chapter point has a small inverted triangle at thgge top
of the vertical line. You can change the location of that chapter point at
any time by selecting it and drag drop or alter the time indicator.
10) Click on Next, you will now be looking at the menu that will be
displayed on your TV set....
11) Click anywhere on that menu and by using the options down the right
hand side you can change the main menu so that it has the look and feel you
want. If you have more than one menu screen (see the "Select A Menu" option
at the top of the display) you can move to that menu and give it a look and
feel completly different to the main/previous one. After you have
experimented with the menu options you will find that you can double click
the video for the particular chapter and alter the picture shown and if you
selected Animate at the top of the Buttons Menu you can also specify in
seconds how much is displayed on each of those buttons. You can if you
prefer make the background animated and have static buttons...play around
with it untill you find what suits your needs best....I always recomend
start simple accept defaults and work up from there.
12) Click Next and see a preview of your complete DVD (but without the
animation)...if its OK click Next again or Back to change what you do not
like.
13) You now have some options regarding the Buring of the disk. My
preference is to make it burn an IMAGE to your hard drive...note that you
are not asked for the actual location untill it is ready to use the info.
With the main part of Nero you can "Mount an Image" as a virtual
drive....this means you can play with the DVD as if it were a real disk on
your computer....untill you are certain and assuming you have the disk
space its a good idea to take this step...it lets you check it out real
time....and it also gives you the ability to burn a second disk if your
first disk gets screwed up during the burn procedd...saves a lot of time if
that happens
I have not mentioned anything about Bit Rates. IF you get a warning that
your video is too big to fit on a standard DVD you must click on "More >>>"
then "Video Options" then "DVD-Video" and change the bitrate settings.
Again, untill you know more leave Sample Format at AUTOMATIC. With the
Quality setting change it to CUSTOM and then manipulate the bit rate so
that video size progress bar at the bottom of the screen indicates that it
only just fits inside the small red dotted vertical line. Then click on
Next etc and proceed as above......
That should get you going OK...if not do say so
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Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
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