Saving as DV AVI

Hi everyone

I'm a little confused
I was wanting to create a VCD with movies I had made accessible via a menu
system (like special features on a DVD you hire or what Ulead DVD Picture
Show 2 produces)


When I save from MM2 as a Windows Video Audio File, well the new photo story
wont accept the video files & allow me to add them.

Some kind person in this newsgroup suggested I save a DV AVI, which I assume
will work- (if I use Ulead DVD Picture Show 2) - Anyway - the problem is
this : Each minute of DV AVI is something like 178 megs - so how could I fit
anymore than say 3 to 4 mins on a CD even if this process is to work?

I assume there is a very easy work around that I'm just not picking up on.

Any help you can offer will be very, very appreciated.

Have a good day :-)

J
Mon Oct 27 17:07:36 CST 2003

Your VCD/DVD authoring software (Ulead DVD Picture Show 2, in your case)
will compress the AVI file to MPEG-1 (for VCD) or MPEG-2 (for DVD) when it
creates the disk. MPEG files are roughly the same as WMV in that both are
compressed video, AVI is not compressed which is why it is so large.

Dan

"NLSM" <nlsm@nlsm.com> wrote in message
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> Hi everyone
>
> I'm a little confused
> I was wanting to create a VCD with movies I had made accessible via a menu
> system (like special features on a DVD you hire or what Ulead DVD Picture
> Show 2 produces)
>
>
> When I save from MM2 as a Windows Video Audio File, well the new photo
story
> wont accept the video files & allow me to add them.
>
> Some kind person in this newsgroup suggested I save a DV AVI, which I
assume
> will work- (if I use Ulead DVD Picture Show 2) - Anyway - the problem is
> this : Each minute of DV AVI is something like 178 megs - so how could I
fit
> anymore than say 3 to 4 mins on a CD even if this process is to work?
>
> I assume there is a very easy work around that I'm just not picking up on.
>
> Any help you can offer will be very, very appreciated.
>
> Have a good day :-)
>
>
>
>

John
Wed Dec 03 04:23:35 CST 2003

Mr Smith,

Your message is off-topic, please refrain from posting off-topic messages
in this newsgroup.

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Dan

"Geo" <Glovitz@qg.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1980bb031aceae198968b@News...
> Does anyone know if it is possible to create an animated Manu menu for a
> VCD? Meaning, I saw an application that had the chapters broken out
> into a few scenes that actually played over and over in a small window
> when yo clicked on thtat chapter form the main menu. (Boy I hope that
> makes sense!)
>
> Ideas? Thanks in advance....