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This will be a bit lengthy.
Objective of project:
Assemble a number of avi movies, each averaging 205MB into a DVD making each movie into a chapter/episode, 5/DVD.
Using EMC 9 installed back when it was first published on a home brew using ASUS mother board, running win2k pro with all the updates on 2 gig macthed pair mem and Intel core 2 duo using Nvidia Gforce 7300 LE video controller and LG GH22LP20 'super multi' burner less then a year old with lighscribe.
1. Using 'Edit video' assemble the 5 avis into one move, created the chapters by using the auto create by chapter at beginning of panels.
2. Imported into MyDVD by using menu 'edit in MyDVD', created menus, changed background pix by using 'browse for background' (please forgive me if my menu names are not accurate, but should be close). Changed background music using 'edit background audio' using an mp3 file w/o the need for editing. Main menu is using an avi for background pix w/its own sound.
3. Rename all my buttons and menus.
4 Created new menu button on the main menu, pointing to all movies in project' then linking back to the main menu.
5. Attempted to change the thumbnail on the chapters by using 'select thumbnail' it goes thru the action of allowing me to play the movie, then clicking ok at the frame I want. Upon exit of that window, the thumbnail does not change, but after restart of app. it does remember where I stopped the movie for each thumbnail.
At this point I installed EMC 10 on my laptop. A Dell Inspiron 1525 with 4 gig mem. running Vista SP2 Home Premium.
Installation failed due to unable to find CPDP.msi. After extreme frustration for not being able to find the file and the persistence of the installation app to try to get installed even after I quit by canceling the install. I decided to remove (just noticed I had) the installed OEM EMC 10 premiere. Then after rebooting proceeded to install EMC 10 by skipping the installation of the cian player (spelling?), in hopes I won't run into the CPDP.msi challenge again. I don't really need that player, not now.
From this point forward I am now using the Dell laptop.
Repeated step 4 in hopes it would allow me to change the thumbnails, but still acted the same way w/same results.
6. At one point shortly after repeating step 4, MyDVD quit and went back to the main screen of EMC 9 losing all the changes I had made for the past 1/2 hour except, it still remembered the frame of each thumbnail, but w/o changing the thumbnail.
7. Attempted to change background pix in one of the submenus w/no results. Went to another menu do the same and was able to, returned to that menu and notice the back ground was clear. Attempted to change pix and it finally did let me do it.
After review of my production, I noticed the background sound of the main menu was repeating the first 5 seconds or so, and the avi was not playing, stayed on the first frame.
Gave up trying to make it right and I created the movie, results?
Main menu has a still pix repeating the first 5 seconds of the background sound of the avi, all the buttons are blank thumbnails. The rest, besides my screw up of repeating a chapter, and forgetting to change background music for one of the submenus, the rest of the menus are and worked as built.
PS: I have successfully created several DVDs in the past, but all been one movie and I created the chapters within the movie, and not so elaborate of animated background, thumbnails, multiple menus, etc...
Soon I hope to be able to play part of the movie within the thumbnail, or at least be able to replace the thumbnail.
Thank you very much for the interest in my 'extreme' frustration. I've always liked Roxio, it's why I've been w/it so long, but it's testing my loyalty right now.
In fact, I was just in it to verify some things in this post, and it just quit on me, again! (On my desktop).
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