create chapter points where i want them?

[ilana]

hi, i am competent on a pc but new to movie making... (i have windows vista)

i have created a movie using windows movie maker. i want each scene i
created to be a chapter on the scene selector once burned onto a dvd -- but,
that is not what is happening.

from doing a search on this message board on 'chapter,' it seems as though i
need dvd authoring software instead of using wmm? is that correct, or, am i
off on this also? i am new to video and am trying to figure out the basics.


not sure what to do next? please advise

thanks much!
ilana

 

[John Inzer]

hi, i am competent on a pc but new to movie making... (i have
windows vista)

i have created a movie using windows movie maker. i want each scene i
created to be a chapter on the scene selector once burned onto a dvd
-- but, that is not what is happening.

from doing a search on this message board on 'chapter,' it seems as
though i need dvd authoring software instead of using wmm? is that
correct, or, am i off on this also? i am new to video and am trying
to figure out the basics.


not sure what to do next? please advise

thanks much!
ilana

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Maybe the following thread will offer some ideas:

Windows Vista - Windows DVD Maker
Chapter skips. How do I create them?
http://www.windowsdvdmaker.com/forums/thread/158.aspx

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://support.microsoft.com/ph/695

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[ilana]

thanks for the info, John.

Is creating a separate project for each intended chapter the only way for me
to determine where the chapters are versus WMM automatically determining
where the chapters are? That process would be extremely time consuming
considering how many chapters I would like (I would like a chapter for each
separate video clip and have many clips).

Is there another program which would allow me to create chapters?

thanks!

 

[John Inzer]

thanks for the info, John.

Is creating a separate project for each intended chapter the only way
for me to determine where the chapters are versus WMM automatically
determining where the chapters are? That process would be extremely
time consuming considering how many chapters I would like (I would
like a chapter for each separate video clip and have many clips).

Is there another program which would allow me to create chapters?

thanks!

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I guess you'll have to try some of the
commercial authoring programs.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://support.microsoft.com/ph/695

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[frank1492]

I suppose you can't criticize anything that's free but it beats me why
MS would sabotage an otherwise very nice piece of software like WMM
by omitting something as essential as being able to manually mark
chapters. When I first tried WMM, I was stunned! What exactly were
they thinking? Surely it wasn't cheaper or easier to design the
program with the dumb "intelligent" chapter-marking system.
I suppose other stupid mistakes people make are worse than
that one, but right now I can't think of any.
Frank