I've got a project of two or three video files which I'd like to get
onto a DVD, with menus, chapter stops, and the like, and I need some advice.

The project has been edited in Adobe Premiere. While I _can_ burn a
single video onto a DVD in that program, I'd need something that can
cteate a DVD with multiple films. I have Roxio and Ulead, which can do
these, but there's a problem-- specifically, chapter stops, and
widescreen video.

The easiest way to insert chapter stops is with Premiere Pro. I can
export a file from Premiere (AVI, MPEG, whatever) and import it into
Roxio or Ulead... but will the chapter stops be included? Or do I have
to put with the clunky chapter-stop systems in Ulead or Roxio?

Okay, now widescreen. My video was shot widescreen, and I'd like viewers
with 16;9 TVs to be able to watch it at its best. Happily, the project
is small enough that I can put both 16:9 and a letterbnoxed 4:3 version
on the disk. But how does one ensure that the 16:9 version will be
displayed properly on a widescreen set? (I don't have a widescreen yet,
BTW, so I have no way to check this.)

"Brian Siano" <siano@mail.med.upenn.edu> wrote in message
news:erngh1$6uft$1@netnews.upenn.edu...
TMPGEnc DVD Author (TDA) is one answer. Download a
free trial, to see if it matches your workflow. You would make
each "film", a separate track in TDA. TDA's tracks are VTS
(Video Title Sets), so you can have video with totally different,
(but still DVD compliant) parameters, like your aspect ratios,
in the same DVD, just as long as it's not in the same VTS.

Within each track, you can easily set chapter points, both manually
or automatically (every x min., or a "specified number of chapters at a
fixed interval")

Luck;
Ken

On Feb 24, 3:49 am, Brian Siano <s...@mail.med.upenn.edu> wrote:
Most authoring software will allow you to automatically letterbox 16:9
footage on a 4:3 screen, so you don't have to create two versions of
your video.

yeltz wrote:
I know that, but my problem is this. If I create a video that's 16:9,
and put it on the DVD so people with 16:9 systems can play it at full
resolution, that's great. But my regular old 4:3 television would play
it "squeezed."

Evidently, there's some way of creating a DVD so that the same movie
file will play 16:9 on those screens, but it'd be letterboxed on a
regular 4:3 monitor.

Since I don't know how to do this, it seems that having two versions
onthe same disc is my easiest solution. Basically, I'd like to be able
to ensure that the widescreen version will play properly on a widescreen
set.