I've spent a lot of time trying to learn this and am about to give up.
I wanted to create a menu-based DVD from digital pictures taken on a father/son baseball trip. I created several video/audio movies, then created a menu-based DVD. The menus look good and function great....but the pictures on the TV flicker very badly. I am running Windows Vista with 4MB RAM and a quadcore processor. Here is what I did:
1. In Adobe Elements 5.0, I created a slide show where I added pictures and musical audio.
2. I output the slideshow and I had to chose between .wmv or .pdf. I chose .wmv. I did this for several different sets of pictures.
3. I imported the 8 .wmv files into Sony DVD Architect 3.0 and created menus. All menus work well.
4. I prepared the video. It created a Video_TS folder with a bunch of .vob, .ifo, and .bup files. It did say it was going to compress both the video files and audio.
5. I tried using "Express Burn" from
imgburn.com, but it said it didn't support menus. And I couldn't figure out which files to drag because it kept saying that it didn't recognize the file type. I couldn't find any easy instructions.
6. So I used the Sony DVD Architect to create an .iso file. Sony doesn't recognize my DVD drive for some reason.
7. Then I used Roxio (which I know you say sucks...but I couldn't figure Express Burn out) to create the DVD from the .iso file.
The settings on Sony DVD Architect were NTSC (720x480) for video format, PCM Stereo for the audio format.
I am flying to see my son at college on Thursday and really wanted to have this done. Please help.....
Thanks.
Steve