{"id":177,"date":"2009-07-21T06:50:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T14:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gillespieetec\/?p=177"},"modified":"2009-07-21T06:50:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T14:50:16","slug":"toolkit-dvd-authoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gillespieetec\/2009\/07\/21\/toolkit-dvd-authoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Toolkit: DVD Authoring"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found PowerISO, NeroVision4, Windows DVD Maker and InterVideo WinDVD for Vaio. Feeling overwhelmed, I went with NeroVision4, simply because it looked straightforward: simple icons, simple features, drop and drag and it promises to make a DVD out of my photos. Seems simple enough for me! As I mouse over icons, text pops up to inform me exactly what each icon does. This is very helpful. For example, I moused over a photo frame, and Nero informed me to \u201cdrag and drop pictures here from above or from Explorer\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

I selected an entire photo file from a recent trip to China. Nero had no problem uploading all of the images from Explorer to the DVD project. Over thirty photos were uploaded in a matter of seconds. I then played with the \u201ceffects\u201d menu and accidently embossed all of the shots. Usually, I would get frustrated at myself, but I found the \u201cback\u201d arrow, which is nice, big and blue, and fixed everything in a short time. <\/span><\/p>\n

Narration was a little bit difficult. I could not figure out how to narrate each photo, so instead I did one narration for the entire move. Thankfully, my \u201cmovie\u201d is only five minutes long, so it wasn\u2019t that bad! However, the narration loops, so I get to hear myself talk a little bit too much! I wanted to add a soundtrack, but I couldn\u2019t figure out how to upload a music file from iTunes to Nero…I\u2019m not sure if you can. I saved the movie then exported it as a file. I\u2019m not sure exactly what that meant, but I thought I should try both avenues to learn more about the process. <\/span><\/p>\n

How intensive was this process? It was not too intensive to play with the effects or to upload the photos. I found the narration to be time intensive, simply because I could not upload music easily. In addition I could not add text to my images. I wanted to add comments and record the exact location of each photo. I also tried to edit my narration, but it was difficult to do so. It was easier to simply re-record myself. All in all, I spent about two hours creating a five minute production that is, honestly, an amateur effort. I will \u201cplay\u201d with Nero more and try out my other DVD authoring tools to gain a better understanding of how to use the tools. I\u2019m definitely happy I tried Nero. My past experiences with DVD authoring have not led to successful burned DVDs. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found PowerISO, NeroVision4, Windows DVD Maker and InterVideo WinDVD for Vaio. Feeling overwhelmed, I went with NeroVision4, simply because it looked straightforward: simple icons, simple features, drop and drag and it promises to make a DVD out of my photos. Seems simple enough for me! As I mouse over icons, text pops up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3859],"tags":[3849,4207,3859,4177],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toolkit","tag-dvd","tag-dvd-authoring","tag-toolkit","tag-toolkit-activity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gillespieetec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gillespieetec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gillespieetec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gillespieetec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gillespieetec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gillespieetec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gillespieetec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gillespieetec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gillespieetec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gillespieetec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}