Luna Tail

Ah the ongoing, never ending, eternal trauma of burning DVDs. Hrmph. I bought Roxio yesterday. I decided I needed to buckle down and get a good program where I can make menus and arrange my videos and pictures and burn them onto disks.

And so of course many problems. First is, of course, learning the software. Took me a while to figure out which app to use that would do what I want. Okay figured that out. Got my minidisks from my camcorder and imported a couple of them with the handycam software. Well, then Roxio couldn’t read it. Hrmph. Used Roxio to import… okay fine, but instead of having each scene it’s own little movie, it’s bunched into one big movie. Ugh.

So I know I read about detecting scenes… off to read about that. Okay then I finally figure out that when I’m creating the DVD with the menu, I can then split the movie into chapters. Okay cool! So I load up a test DVD and burn, and put it in the DVD player and it works yay!

(Okay I get the couch back, two of the three dogs on it just jumped off lol.)

Anyway, so then I load up all my movies from minidisc, arrange the menu, import them all, arrange titles and everything… and cool thing, looks like all my minidisc movies will fit on the same DVD. Burn it… put it in the DVD player after a long time of burning, and… no menu.

Ugh! Okay blah. So I go back in, take out half the movies and reburn. Stick the DVD back into the DVD player on the TV.. and it works! Woo Hoo!

So I wasted one LightScribe disk. Figured the next disc would be a cheaper kind to test. Worked, though. So now I am copying the cheap disk to the LightScribe disk which I will be giving to my friends who came to camp with me.

So learning curve, eh? Computers are such a pain. Can’t live with ‘em, Can’t throw ‘em out the window.

Tags: Camera, Tech

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