Jan's right that basically, there are a lot of people who would like to treat a DVD lik a VHS tape... Press play, and watch the whole thing. Start it, stop it, start it again.
As far as indexing, you'd have to make a menu tree. You can use DVD Studio Pro to make them. When the DVD is first put in, you either want to auto-start with the full presentation, like Jan mentioned, or you want the first thing to come up to be a menu. Have only two selections on that first menu, which are A) Play Video, and B) Select Chapter. Play video plays the entire presentation and gives the option of fast forwarding from video to video. Select Chapter leads to another menu, which has groups that lead to other menu pages, so that any individual video can be selected as the starting point. There's a lot more to the techniques behind it, but that's the basic layout. You can do it with DVD Studio pro, and it will be playable on any computer or DVD player, but it takes quite a long time to do because there are so many pointers you have to create from video to video in playback order as well as linking the menus to other menus and to the videos that they're pointing to. Another option is to record all the videos into one long video and use chapter markers out of FCP to determine where each video begins, but you still have to make all the menu links and select the stills or running video for the thumbnail images on the menus. -- Bill Cammack CammackMediaGroup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Jan McLaughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As my folks are of similar age, I would set the thing for autoplay and > be happy they view it once in your presence :) > > That's all my elders could handle of the 50th anniversary DVD I made > for 'em of images mostly of them made with their favorite music of all > time. > > But that's my folks. Perhaps your mileage varies. > > If they seem interested in going back to particular videos again, you > could then research the easy menu navigation you describe. > > What I'm thinking is that you could break down the videos into > categories - chapters - kids, rants, work, etc. and subchapters - and > that would be the best you could do with current technology. > > I'm liking Titanium Toast for mastering DVD's since I couldn't get the > freebie Tiger DVD app to work (thanks to Madge@ Yeast Radio for the > referral). It's not free, but worth it since it worked. > > Jan > > On Dec 15, 2007 5:47 PM, Mike Moon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My mom doesn't have highspeed internet, so I want to create a DVD of > > all the vlogs from the past year. > > > > All the videos are mostly saved @ 320x240, .MP4 using h.264 600-750 > > bitrate. > > > > Part of the problem is, there's 230 videos. That's a lot of titles to > > be dealt with. > > I need a Mac DVD creator that is "vlogger friendly". > > Ideally it should be able to navigate as Mom's in her 70's and Dad's 85. > > The DVD should be simple to navigate yet still move throughout the > > library quickly. > > > > Any sort of Mac program that can help a guy, with limited time, come > > out with a nice looking DVD for his mom? What are some of my choices? > > > > Thanks, > > Mike > > > > http://vlog.mikemoon.net > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > The Faux Press - better than real > http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS > http://fauxpress.blogspot.com > http://wburg.tv > aim=janofsound > air=862.571.5334 > skype=janmclaughlin >
