moving menus

thewarmovie · Post by **thewarmovie** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 3:20 am

Hey guys, do any of you know how i could make video menus with music with a VCD? is there any free software to do it? I have ahead nero burning rom and vcdeasy, i've made menus with just a pic but i want somthing to capture the adience.

anouther question, how can i make submenus and show commercials at the beggining?

Please Help?!?!?!?!?

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 5:32 am

Geeze... you are looking for professional grade software and hardware. I don't think you can find anything like that within $300 if that! I've looked for that kind of equipment. But the sad truth is that it is too complicated for nearly all people, so nothing of that likeness can be found on the consumer market. People like simple. Except for the amateur filmmakers like you and me. You have high dreams, but you won't be able to find anything like that.

Try looking at Adobe Encore. Maybe you will find what you want in there.

(NOTHING is free in the world)

Kolorion · Post by **Kolorion** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 5:42 am

that has to be something, how about the food samples at kroger or publix

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 6:02 am

and at Price Cosco, Henrys, or Trader Joes.

thewarmovie · Post by **thewarmovie** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 8:00 pm

Hey guy's, this is the best couple of days of my VCD and SVCD creation life: Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2, the only prob is the price i got the trial but it's days are running out, i'll save for it (it's $50) thanks anyway.

JJJSWIFT · Post by **JJJSWIFT** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:10 am

does dvd movie factory do the things u asked about

Rico · Post by **Rico** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 3:30 pm

You can actually do quite a lot of things with (S)VCDs, and that with free programs. If You do have the source material (i.e. pre-rendered videoclips that make up the menus).
VCDEasy should be able to do the trick - it uses VCDImager as backbone, just like my old program VDComposer. I haven't checked up with VCDEasy since I stopped developing my own program (almost two years ago), but there ar elikely that the program have moved on.

What I used to do was to prepare all the videoclips (background for menu, with buttons, either animated clips of the movie or static texts or a mix). This has to be done for each of the menus You need, and then You simply import these clips together with the actual movie(s) and any other stuff You want to add, and start authoring the (S)VCD.
You can set up clips to play in certain sequences and use the digit-buttons on the remote to choose chapters and so on...

On the other hand I may have missed out on something on what You want to do, so in that case ignore my post and I'll go back to lurking

Regards,
Rico

thewarmovie · Post by **thewarmovie** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:38 pm

movieFactory does sub-menus and background music, but i have vcdeasy and i'll try that too

TXFilms · Post by **TXFilms** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 3:46 pm

If your using Nero 5.x and lower (sounds like you are), hate to say it, but try an get 6 ultra. Nerovision will finally do moving menus. VCD video looks (and for some reason) actually plays better and in more DVD players than before.

But: I cant for the life of me seem to get multiple menus. I can get more than one page (If I have a bunch of vids on it, it'll create the same page with the next page button) but I cant make a video play first, then go to menus, with like a menu for special effects, and a menu for behind the scenes.... etc. Perhaps there is a way, but with nero, I doubt it.

Taxman800 · Post by **Taxman800** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 6:17 am

if you have a mac use idvd. Its like $20 now i think.

lethelgirth87 · Post by **lethelgirth87** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:53 am

ummm....pinnacle 8 does what you want, you just have to download the free updates, its prolly about $80 now cause they released a new version, pinnacle is not the best editing program in the world, but it does a good job with vcd svcd and dvd creation

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 12:47 pm

Where's Jerry Jones when you need him!

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:31 am

Taxman800 wrote:if you have a mac use idvd. Its like $20 now i think.

If you are using a mac, Final Cut Pro has the ability to create professional menus on a dvd. Premiere does not, however.

reflexive_cinematics · Sat Apr 03, 2004 12:05 am

Epsilon wrote:
Taxman800 wrote:if you have a mac use idvd. Its like $20 now i think.
If you are using a mac, Final Cut Pro has the ability to create professional menus on a dvd. Premiere does not, however.

Yeah, I use Pro and you can only export to DVD. If you want to create motion menus and all that stuff, you'll have to create that in AE and then finally put it all together in Encore.

But that way you are gonna get a totally professional end result

To me it seems that ' you get what you pay for ' basically

thewarmovie · Post by **thewarmovie** » Sun May 16, 2004 9:53 pm

I don't have a mac, ughh I lost more post again!!!!

UFProductions · Post by **UFProductions** » Sun May 16, 2004 10:14 pm

All I have now is Pinnacle 8 (like letalgirth87 mentioned), and it does do a fairly good job with the menu creation. It may not be great for special effects and such, but it couldn't be easier to use.

Syras · Post by **Syras** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 8:02 am

i use encore and even though its expensive u can do soo much with it
i've had it for a yr now and i'm always finding new things. to make moving menus with it you just drag in the video u want in the right size and put some text over the top for buttons (u can do heaps more stuff like add bars and stuff so the buttons stand out better too)

cantoloupe · Post by **cantoloupe** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 4:29 am

i use apple's DVD studio pro, got it as part of the production suite, you can do any menu you can think of, or create. Its like encore, but more features and parameters, (its apple, so of course)

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 4:47 am

Epsilon wrote:Geeze... you are looking for professional grade software and hardware. I don't think you can find anything like that within $300 if that! I've looked for that kind of equipment. But the sad truth is that it is too complicated for nearly all people, so nothing of that likeness can be found on the consumer market. People like simple. Except for the amateur filmmakers like you and me. You have high dreams, but you won't be able to find anything like that.

Try looking at Adobe Encore. Maybe you will find what you want in there.

(NOTHING is free in the world)

I agree, I have encore and it works great. Nothing is free , and don't say priating softwear becuase thats illegal which means its not really free, it's called stealing.

Magic-Man · Post by **Magic-Man** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:15 pm

Ye true. Btw How much is Encore? And is it easy to use (it is burning software ye?) please correct me if i am wrong, thank you

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