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Liquid's timeline DVD creation editor can be a bit
daunting and frustrating initially, but once mastered, you will find it incredibly easy and fast
and convenient. And making changes can be quite fast.
If you visit the forums, you will see many
posts talking about using other programs like Nero, DVD Workshop, Adobe Encore,
Sony Vegas DVD, DVDit6, DVDLabPro, etc.
I bought Edition with
the idea that it was a multi-functional program and that I was only going to use Edition
in DVD production - and I have stuck to it.
Liquid's DVD editor is very cool and nice. You edit on the timeline.
Make your DVD menus on the timeline. You edit your menus right in the dvd editor.
You add your chapter markers, addition menu pages, sub-Menus - all from the DVD
editor using the timeline. It is fast and easy once you
understand it.
You don't need another program unless you want sub-titles, angle choices or want
to add extra content to your DVD for computer users (such as eDVD that comes
with DVDit6Pro.
DVD creation
is one area I found training tutorials quite helpful. If you are
wondering
which tutorial to buy - check this out !
- or check out the
Pinnacle Free
Tutorials or the
For Sale Tutorials
section.
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Digital Juice TV - Tech Know: Wow 'Em With
Widescreen: Widescreen DVD Delivers a Big-Budget Look |
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EXPORTING other than to DVD - WMV, Flash SWF,
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Exporting for ENCORE |
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Creating an AutoPlay DVD (Getting rid of
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Linking to Chapters |
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Duplicating and Labeling DVD's |
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Creating DVD Labels |
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Making a DVD with other text/files on it |
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Making Multiple DVD's with multiple DVD Burners |
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Using the  Logo in and on a
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Licensing DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1 Surround -
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Copy Protecting a DVD created with Liquid |
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DVD cases |
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Settings for Making a DVD |
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Some DVD Authoring Tips |
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DVD settings and How Long should my DVD be for good video quality ? |
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Creating an AutoPlay DVD |
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Continuous Looping DVD |
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Other DVD Authoring Programs to use |
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Comparing Liquid features to other programs |
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Replacing Triagular Single Start Button (no DVD menu or using MarkIn/MarkOut)
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Accessing PowerPoint or other EXE from
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I just captured 2 hours of content. using M2V codec. Now I
want to make the DVD. How do I avoid recompressing the files again? My
first attempt took almost 4 hours which leads me to believe it rerendered as
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Length of DVD menus to
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DVD menus (at least, those created with LE) always pause at
the end of their duration before looping back to the beginning. This may be more
noticeable on some players than others. I find it helpful to lengthen DVD menus
to 30 seconds (default is 3 sec). Most users will make their choice within 30
sec, and so not notice the pause.
By the way, Liquid 6 pauses are noticeably shorter.
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Burning a second DVD from Edition |
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To burn another DVD - Inside the Create
DVD menu, go to the source tab and instead of Current Sequence(Timeline)go
to the bottom and use DVD Image. But many of us just use a DVD copy program
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Burning a second DVD using another program |
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Once you have a DVD created, you can
always burn a copy of that dvd with a DISK to DISK copy program such as
Award's Nero or Roxio's Easy CD Creator Plus or other DVD burning programs.
Also when you burn an image, Liquid 6 makes a file in the \temp_render_folder\project_name\DVD\dvd_sequence_name.
In here will be the *.iso file with information about the DVD image. This
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You can burn a playable DVD just using the
.VOB, .IFO and .BUP files. While just copying the files to a DVD will sometimes work in some
set top players, creating the DVD as a VIDEO DVD using buring programs such
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DVD Media does make a difference. Here is
a site that rates
various media if you want to check out the best of the best. Guess what -
Ritek G04's (4X ink jet printable) got a great rating. (see
Printing on DVD's)
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Ever wonder why DVD-R seems to be the most compatible with older settop
players? Should you use a DVD-R or a DVD+R to create your DVD projects ?
What is BookType Bit Setting and how does that effect a DVD that I create
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Well - in a nut shell, DVD-R is the older technology, thus the reason why a
DVD-R seems to off the most compatibility to set top players. But the real
answer may be in the BookType Bit Setting on the leader of the DVD that tells
the DVD player what type of DISK is being read.
And the nut inside the shell is that you can set the BoorType Bit of DVD+R
and DVD+RW disks to DVD-ROM, and doing so will make the disk as compatible or
perhaps more compatible than any DVD-R disk
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Printing on DVD's (labels
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Recommended: Ritek DVD-R 4X (G04) inkjet printable
from www.meritline.com
I am on my 200-250 batch and never had a problem.
I like an Epson 200 for a cheap $99 printer - or better yet
an Epson 300 or better yet Epson 900 - both print on inkjet printable dvd's.
(testimonial) - "I use Ritek ink-jet printable disks. I
used to use Neato disc labels, applied with their hub gadget, but found that
about 25% of the discs were returned by the customers because they wouldn't play
in their set-top players. Replacement with an unlabeled version (otherwise
identical) has cured the problem in every case. I've had no reports of problems
when a labeled DVD is played on a computer." - user on Pinnacle Forum
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