Help on DVD authoring...

[hallucinogenetick]

Sorry, bit of a newbie question here...

I've been trying to make a DVD out of Les Claypool's set at Echo Project 2007. I grabbed the .flv files from iClips and converted to .avi (I know, not exactly quality, but it's one of my favorite shows and I want to burn myself a DVD copy). I'm using ULead DVD MovieFactory, which came bundled with my Toshiba laptop, and every time I add the files to my project, it creates a separate title for each clip. So I clicked the "Join Videos" button, which combined them into a single title, with each avi file as a separate chapter (exactly what I wanted). However, the video becomes nothing but a black screen, although audio is intact. When I hit the "Separate Video" button, it split it back into titles with the video perfectly fine.

Is there some way for me to fix this? I doubt many people on this board use ULead, so my best course is probably to find a different program. I'm just not too fond of shellin out the cash for a program that might still not work, and I don't want to simply make a Video CD...

Please help!

[tgunn2760]

Originally Posted by hallucinogenetick

Sorry, bit of a newbie question here...

I've been trying to make a DVD out of Les Claypool's set at Echo Project 2007. I grabbed the .flv files from iClips and converted to .avi (I know, not exactly quality, but it's one of my favorite shows and I want to burn myself a DVD copy). I'm using ULead DVD MovieFactory, which came bundled with my Toshiba laptop, and every time I add the files to my project, it creates a separate title for each clip. So I clicked the "Join Videos" button, which combined them into a single title, with each avi file as a separate chapter (exactly what I wanted). However, the video becomes nothing but a black screen, although audio is intact. When I hit the "Separate Video" button, it split it back into titles with the video perfectly fine.

Is there some way for me to fix this? I doubt many people on this board use ULead, so my best course is probably to find a different program. I'm just not too fond of shellin out the cash for a program that might still not work, and I don't want to simply make a Video CD...

Please help!

Are all the files the same frame rate?

[hallucinogenetick]

Yep. All 30 fps...

[hallucinogenetick]

Downloaded DVD Architect trial.. still running into the same sort of problem. I think my only choice is going to be to get Vegas or something to combine them all into one video and then add chapter markers to that... ugh

[hallucinogenetick]

Never mind...

Added files to Architect as Music/Video Compilation, which automatically fixed my problem. Silly me.

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