[Imc-oceania] Some DVD questions - anyone out there work on the Oceania Newsreal?

[Anna]

Hi,

I did the authoring for all three Oceania Newsreals. I think Andrew 
mentioned this off-list, but I made them all as VCDs, not DVDS, as it 
was much cheaper to do so then.

I did use a bad freeware DVD-authoring program for Mac recently called 
Sizzle DVD. It's not much chop, and hard to use, but it works (just).

I've only ever used DVD Studio Pro for Mac to author DVDs with menus, 
it's pretty much the industry standard now. It's really good if you can 
get hold of it, though you'll have to spend a bit of time getting to 
know it. Another option is to use iDVD which comes standard with Mac  
10.3 and above. It's simple and easy enough to use.

It would be really good to know about your experiences using FOSS 
DVD-authoring programs however. If you have any success with them, 
please let us know!

Your other option is to just make a DVD without a menu. The FOSS Burn 
application for Mac is pretty good if you want to do this, or any other 
program for your OS that will burn a DVD-Video disc.

Cheers,
Anna

Dave Fregon wrote:
> Please note: this list is archived and searchable via the web.
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 08:54 +1200, Asher wrote:
>   
>> Please note: this list is archived and searchable via the web.
>> Hey crew,
>>
>> Just a quick question - over here in Aotearoa, we're planning to make
>> an Aotearoa Indymedia DVD, probably sometime before the end of this
>> year. For details (including the contents) you can check out
>> http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Aotearoa/AimDvd2007
>>
>> We'll be sure to send a copy to each of you crews for your viewing
>> pleasure too, when its done :)
>>
>> Anyway, I was wondering if there's anyone on this list that was
>> involved in making the 3rd Oceania Newsreal (or anyone else) that
>> could answer the question of what software the DVD menu was made in.
>> Any reccomendations for this would be much appreciated. 
>>     
>
> Not sure about what the Oceania Newsreel menus were made in, why not
> check out :
>
> http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net
>
> and this article may be of some assistance of understanding the
> underlying processes the above program supplies GUI for:
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6953
>
> and tho quite technical, this article has a lot of info, and not just
> gentoo specific, although it's on their forums :
>
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-117709.html
>
> Dave
>
>