AUDIT TRAIL OF DVD-AUTHORING SPLITTING LONGEST CLIPS RE-TITLE, TRIM TITLES AND BURN

AuditTrailOfDVD-AuthoringSplittingLongestClipsRe-TitleTrimTitlesAndBurn

This “Audit Trail Of DVD-Authoring Splitting Longest Clips Re-Title& Trim Titles” can be recorded by spy-ware program that record all the users’ key strokes, screen capture, and adds explanations from a dictionary of activities.  Or alternatively, can also be done manually using other tools.

Find the Longest Title, Split It in Half, Re-Title the 2^nd Half, and Trim Titles

Find the longest title, split it in half, re-title the 2^nd half, and Trim Titles.  Let’s start by finding the longest title.  Scan the length of the titles, in the right-most column (Total time), in the DVDAuthor1.bmp screen shot.  Title#24 highlighted, is the longest with about 16 minutes of video.  Place the cursor on the title name of the longest title, and the cursor should highlight the longest title name in yellow.  The longest clip on this DVD (longest chapter) has a total time of 16 minutes, about.

Screen Capture 1:

DVDAuthor1.bmp

Drag the timer circle (looks like a button, with 4 tiny holes in its center) to the middle of the clip (16 minutes/ 2 = 8 minutes approximately).  Play the 2^nd half of the clip til you find a good splitting point.  Then pause the Playback function, and right mouse click the] [Divide button at the screen bottom right hand side, command panel.

And the system will: … display a dialog confirmation box, with a question mark, and a [Yes] [No], answer button

Screen Capture 2:

DVDAuthor2.bmp

 DVD-Movie Album will ask you to confirm that you want to “divide the clip title into 2 in the current play position?”  Confirm that you do.

Click the [ok] button on the dialog box.

Right Mouse Click the 2^nd half of the title, at the cursors’ position.

And the system … DVD-MovieAlbum will popup a dialog box popup menu

Select the Property item, the last item on the popup menu

Screen Capture 3:

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DVD-MovieAlbum will popup the “Title information” dialog box, with the title number 25, title name, etc.

Notice that, DVD-MovieAlbum has split the clip in about half appending its titles with a subscript of a value of 1 for the first half, and a value of 2 for the 2^nd half.

Insert a unique title into the 2^nd half; at least the first 16 characters have to be unique to each title.  You may keep some of the 1^st title letters past character 16.

Then trim the title of the 2^nd half, removing the suffix subscript of “_2” from the end of the title, so it reads like the following “Input Box in Visual Basic Editor in Excel.”

And the system should display the …dialog box with the “Title name” input box including you revised title.  Your new title should have at least 16 unique characters for its prefix.

Screen Capture 4:

DVDAuthor4.bmp

And the system… DVD-MovieAlbum should display the revised title, highlighting the revised 2^nd title in yellow.  Go back to the 1^st title, and trim the “_1” subscript suffix, restoring it to its original title, prior to the title split.

Screen Capture 5:

DVDAuthor5.bmp

After trimming the suffix of “_1” from the 1^st half of the title, the system should display the …

1^st half with the original title, without the suffix, as it was before splitting the longest title in about half.

Instructions:

Continue this splitting until the time that you have raised the number of title to the maximum allowed of 99 chapters per DVD, or 99 video clips.  At such a point you are done with this DVD.  Register another DVD for editing and repeat the same process.