How do I get here?
From Main Menu, click Open button below the show thumbnail. You will be directed to Opening Show Window. Click Make VCD/AVI/DVD
Overview
This feature offers you ability to create a DVD movie. DVD movie is playable on computer and DVD player.. How different DVD movie compare to interactive CD? An Interactive CD can contain more shows than a DVD movie and it lets user interact with your show (clicking on show buttons, clicking on sound, play with interactive clipart, etc). However Interactive CD is only playable on computer while DVD movie is playable on computer and DVD players.
InAlbum will always enable the automatic jump when making a DVD movie.
Making a DVD
To make a DVD, follow these 4 simple steps.
1. Selecting video settings
Choose the CD type you want to make as DVD movie
Choose the video system. Most recent DVD players support both systems.
| • | PAL (To be viewed in Europe and Australia) |
| • | NTSC (To be viewed in USA and Asia) |
Most DVD player can play both video system
Choose what type of animation you want to produce.
| • | Export with full animation |
The video will be made exactly the same as your show. All animation (including animated clip art), sound, voice , music and their timing will play exactly like when you play your show.
This process takes longer than export as a slideshow.
| • | Export with reduced animation |
The video will be made as a sideshow. All animated clip art will not animate and all sound and voice will play instantly at the start of each photo.
This process takes quicker than export with full animation.
Set Safety Zone margin (only available when making VCD/SVCD/DVD
Safety Zone margin is a black border added around your final movie. When TV plays VCD/SVCD/DVD, it show the picture a little bit larger than your movie dimension thus there are some part of the movie around the border that is not visible as they are outside your TV screen. This area is called a safety zone. To compensate this problem, InAlbum let you add black border around your movie and render the movie content inside the border area to make sure that they will all be visible when playing on TV.
You can adjust this border by clicking on Setup button. By default it is set to 6% of the movie dimension.
Note that every TV has different safety zone dimension.
When you finish, click on Next button to go to Selecting show to be included into DVD.
2. Selecting show to be included in DVD and reordering shows
InAlbum lets you put more than one show into a DVD. The left window showing available to be put into a DVD while the right window showing the show will be included in a DVD. By default the currently opened show is included. To include a show to a DVD, double click on the show thumbnail on the left window.
The Current disc space used information above the right window tells you how much space already used in the DVD.
Excluding show from disc
To exclude show from disc, double click on show thumbnail on the right window.
Including all shows
Click Add All button
Excluding all shows
Click Remove All button
Reordering shows in disc
Click and drag show thumbnail on the right window to reorder it and drop it at the desired location
Giving a disc title
Type in Title text box. Disc title will be used as disc volume
When you ready to make a disc, click Make Disc Now button.
3. Customize your DVD movie
A window like the one showing below will open. If you own InAlbum 3.0 Deluxe, you can add an interactive menu in your DVD movie, otherwise your show will play one after another automatically without menu.
To use this menu authoring system, please go here.
Set the local output folder by clicking on Browse button next to Output file textbox. This folder will be used by InAlbum 3.0 to put all files before they are burnt into DVD disc. Please make sure you have enough free space in the hard drive. The required space is displayed just bellow the Output folder textbox.
The Delete temporary file after finish checkbox is to tell InAlbum 3.0 whether to delete/keep the temporary files to be burnt into DVD disc. It is recommended that you uncheck it. In case of unsuccessfull burning, you can find a VIDEO_TS folder located in the output folder. You can use other burning software such as Nero to burn this folder to make a DVD disc.
4. Start making DVD
Click OK to continue burning the DVD.
Warning
It would be better to leave your computer for a while during the making process as the DVD quality will depend on how much computing power available from your computer. The time completion estimate is provided at the end of the progress bar at the bottom of the window.
After the capture process finished, a burning window will show up with your DVD burner drive automatically selected. Insert a blank DVD disc into your DVD burner and click Burn. Burning process will take a while depending on your computer and DVD burner speed. It is advised not to run a heavy process during this time.
To view the resulting DVD disc, simply insert the dvd into DVD player and play it as normal DVD.
Note
Do not use cheap quality DVD disc as burning DVD movie is much more sensitive than burning a DVD data.
If you are having problem burning the DVD, please read the discussion here.