DVD menu has me stressed!

[churchtech007]

So I'm putting together a new promo dvd for first time guest. It is supposed to be available for our big "friend day" promotion this weekend.
Iv'e been collecting and editing video from all our different ministries for the last couple months. And working on a dvd menu for the last couple weeks.

Anyway . . . why I'm stressed. I finally got everything to an acceptable level of completion and went to put it together today.
Here's what I'm trying to do. I want each ministry to be played independently of the other ministries. (So if I'm 30 with 2 kids I can watch the info about the childrens min. and skip the primetimers info)
I'm using uLead dvd workshop 2 and it tells me I can only have 10 titles!
Now ulead will let me have 99 chapters but that doesn't do me any good if I want to play each clip independently and then send it back to the menu.
(If this isn't clear let me know and I can give further explaination.)

I'm open to idea's of a way to put it together or any other "build your own custom dvd menu" software that will let me have at least 25 titles.

Thanks all,

[voyager529]

Adobe Encore is my other favorite (though it's not *quite* as simple as DVD workshop).

Nero Vision is my other authoring app of choice.

The other way of going is to render the video out as a single title, add each ministry promo as a chapter, then in the playlist menu, set it to come back to the title menu after it's done playing the chapter. That, I believe is the stick-to-DVD-Workshop workaround.

Joey

[churchtech007]

Joey,

Thanks for the info.
I had the same idea on rendering it to 1 video however, I couldn't figure out how to make dvd-workshop go back to the menu after playing the chapter. Have you done it?

I would love to stick with dvd-workshop since I already have everything created!


Thanks!
Jonathan

[voyager529]

I haven't done it directly, but I have a copy of DVD Workshop at work. I'll check it out a little later today and get back to you.

Joey

[churchtech007]

Well it isn't as good as it could have been but I made my deadline.
I ended up using sony dvd architect. Nice program.
Full use 30 day trial which sold me.
Thanks for the suggestions Joey!

[trex]

Thank you for posting this. I had the same problem. I was trying to make a "Best Man Speech" for my pastor and wanted to make a DVD for the newlyweds. I wanted to make it so they could watch different aspects including the "speech" without it automatically proceeding to the next chapter. This turned out to be a challenge and I didn't succeed. Thank you for posting your results and noting the Sony software you used.

I just started editing video and love the Cyberlink PowerDirector and PowerProducer but the DVD menu thing beat me .

Its cheap (less than $150) and very powerful editing software compared to more expensive versions.