Do you know them? Those people always wearing a video camera to be sure to tape
every important moment of their life? And then if they're not annoying enough
put it on a tape or DVD, put a lot of flashy titles and subtitles on it, and add
some fishy music? Some people however are able to make masterpieces and the DVD
has brought them a lot of new possibilities. Bayarea.com has a nice article
about the hassles of DVD authoring, as making a DVD movie is called, and
concluded that although the process is certainly not hassle free, it can be a
very satisfying hobby!
 Yes, digital movie editing is already a complex process, but it gets even more stressful once you decide to share your film-making adventures with others by creating -- or ``authoring'' -- a DVD. Not only can it be confusing to bring together video, audio and still pictures, the result might not work in every DVD player. Several sub-0 DVD-authoring programs such as Sonic MyDVD and Apple Computer's iDVD3 strive to make the process easy. But if you want to turn out a truly masterful work, this final step could take hours or even days if you're a bit of a procrastinator.
And if you want a
higher level of control over your DVD features, that could mean using
Apple's DVD Studio Pro ($ 1,000), or perhaps Adobe's Encore DVD software
($ 550), due in the second half of the year. Eventually we got the DVD to
work -- the first DVD player we tried was an older model that wouldn't
play the disc format I used, DVD-R. We ended up playing the video on a
home computer instead. Once we got it working, I realized I had forgotten
to add a soundtrack to the opening menu.
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Source: Bayarea.com
