[Willard M]

I am making a movie that will require different duration times for the still photos. The first 6 pictures have a long duration and have narration and overlays that require a timing of 27 seconds. The rest of the movie 25 pictures will have 3 short songs for them and can have the same duration.

When I go to Fit Audio and Video the program changes the 27 second duration to 12 seconds. This 12 second figure would not be correct for the 25 pictures if I put the first 6 pictures back to 27 seconds.

My question is: Is there a way to selectively apply the Fit Video and Audio to a particular chain of pictures and omit those that require a different duration? So far the only thing I have figured out is to manually time the song length and manually figure the duration and apply to each.

[grandpabruce]

I am making a movie that will require different duration times for the still photos. The first 6 pictures have a long duration and have narration and overlays that require a timing of 27 seconds. The rest of the movie 25 pictures will have 3 short songs for them and can have the same duration.

When I go to Fit Audio and Video the program changes the 27 second duration to 12 seconds. This 12 second figure would not be correct for the 25 pictures if I put the first 6 pictures back to 27 seconds.

My question is: Is there a way to selectively apply the Fit Video and Audio to a particular chain of pictures and omit those that require a different duration? So far the only thing I have figured out is to manually time the song length and manually figure the duration and apply to each.

It's a piece of cake. Make 2 different VideoWave productions, with the different timings and Fit to Audio, then bring both of the productions into MyDVD for authoring and burning.

[Willard M]

Thank you. I will give that a try next time. I don't know how to separate the movie at this point in time as I created it in MY DVD.

[sknis]

Thank you. I will give that a try next time. I don't know how to separate the movie at this point in time as I created it in MY DVD.

Willard, you should know by now that you always use Video Wave to make the slide shows. This is not your first rodeo !. My suggestion s to start from scratch. This would be simple in Video Wave but not as simple in MyDVD because of all the extra baggage that goes along with saving a MyDVD file.

Sorry if I offended you but I'm surprised that you were not told that before.

In EMC 9, I remember that you can open the production and do some fiddling around to get the MyDVD project into Video Wave. Do a search on this site for it. I don't have EMC 9 on my computer now.

[Willard M]

sknis,

You didn't offend me and you are absolutely right. I have been told this before and I have tried using Video Wave and converting over but was not completely successful. When I first started using the program I started out with My DVD and old habits are hard to break. Thank you for your comments. I will try to reeducate myself.

[grandpabruce]

sknis,

You didn't offend me and you are absolutely right. I have been told this before and I have tried using Video Wave and converting over but was not completely successful. When I first started using the program I started out with My DVD and old habits are hard to break. Thank you for your comments. I will try to reeducate myself.

The question now is, have you tried what I suggested?

[Willard M]

I did look at Video Wave to see if I could convert my movie into two parts and then recombine them on My DVD. The first thing that I didn't understand was that there is no No Menu selection in Video Wave. That is one of the selections in My DVD. I was not sure whether I could recombine them in My DVD with a No Menu option. I have two days in this movie and didn't want to destroy it so did my calculations manually which took a lot of dinken' around. When I complete this movie I will make a test movie using your suggestions. Thank you.

[grandpabruce]

I did look at Video Wave to see if I could convert my movie into two parts and then recombine them on My DVD. The first thing that I didn't understand was that there is no No Menu selection in Video Wave. That is one of the selections in My DVD. I was not sure whether I could recombine them in My DVD with a No Menu option. I have two days in this movie and didn't want to destroy it so did my calculations manually which took a lot of dinken' around. When I complete this movie I will make a test movie using your suggestions. Thank you.

There is no menu option, in VideoWave, because the authoring, of your production, is done in MyDVD.

Do your productions, separately, in VideoWave, saving each of them. You then open MyDVD, and bring in your VideoWave productions for authoring and burning.

This post has been edited by grandpabruce: 17 May 2009 - 01:19 PM

[Willard M]

Thank you, I will do that on my next movie. When you say "authoring" in MY DVD I assume that will give me the opportunity to select all Menu options that are available including No Menu?

[myguggi]

Thank you, I will do that on my next movie. When you say "authoring" in MY DVD I assume that will give me the opportunity to select all Menu options that are available including No Menu?

When starting a myDVD project, you have to choose what type of DVD you want to create: select File/New and the DVD or DVD, no Menus.
Once you have started adding movies and.or photos you cannot switch to another project type.

[Willard M]

I'm making a movie in Video Wave. The first several panels are of different duration times with many overlays and transitions. I saved those panels to a folder as a .dmsm production. I also fitted my audio to that production. I then created another .dmsm production of all of the still pictures that are of the same duration. I have fitted the audio to that series of pictures and I then saved that .dmsm production with a different name to a folder.
I then closed Video Wave and opened My DVD. I selected New Project-DVD-No Menu. I then selected Add New Movie. Box opens and I select the first .dmsm project. Project opens in My DVD and starts to play. I then try to add the second .dmsm project to the program and it comes on but closes out the first program. I also tried to add the second program in Edit Movie but no joy. I tried several different commands trying to add the second .dmsm to the first but always with the same result. I also tried highlighting both programs initially and tried to load but only the second program loaded.

Perhaps someone can give me the sequence of commands step by step.

Thank you.

[malatekid]

I don't think Project-DVD, no menu allow you to bring in more than one title (or movie).

Maybe just create an mpg file of each dmsm. Then bring in the two mpg files to Videowave and create an mpg of that production. That last mpg is the one you use in MyDVD (DVD, no menu).

[myguggi]

I don't think Project-DVD, no menu allow you to bring in more than one title (or movie).

Maybe just create an mpg file of each dmsm. Then bring in the two mpg files to Videowave and create an mpg of that production. That last mpg is the one you use in MyDVD (DVD, no menu).

You can have have more then one movie in Project DVD, No menu - I do it all the time, sometimes 3-4 different movies which I render overnight. The problem maybe though that it allows only one dmsm project file, the 2nd one may have to be in mpeg format.

[Willard M]

Thank you both for your reply. I thought it was possible based on Grandpa Bruces's posting. As for saving a second project to MPEG I will have to do some studying on that as I don't know how to do that. Is the transition from .dmsm to MPEG seamless when added together?

[grandpabruce]

Thank you both for your reply. I thought it was possible based on Grandpa Bruces's posting. As for saving a second project to MPEG I will have to do some studying on that as I don't know how to do that. Is the transition from .dmsm to MPEG seamless when added together?

It is possible to add two .dmsm files in MyDVD, if you don't choose No Menu.

If you want No Menu, then while in VideoWave, with one of your productions open, click on File/Output As, and under Video File Quality, select MPEG 2, for DVD, best quality. I actually alway select DV format AVI.

Then, give it a name, and location to save to, and click Create Video File. Once that is complete, you get out of VideoWave, open MyDVD, bring in the one .dmsm file that you have, and bring in the video file you just made.

That is what Walt was saying, when he mentioned you had to do it that way to get the No Menu.

This post has been edited by grandpabruce: 13 July 2009 - 06:40 PM

[Willard M]

Thanks Grandpa Bruce. The step by step will, I think, make it easier for me to learn how to do this.

[grandpabruce]

Thanks Grandpa Bruce. The step by step will, I think, make it easier for me to learn how to do this.

Let us know how it goes for you, Willard.