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by bbusk

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I capture video clips from places like You Tube and have them converted to .AVI or .MPG files and save them to my hard disk. I'm looking for easy to use software to burn each of the clips to a DVD and have each clip show up as a thumbnail with text describing the clip so I can choose what I want to watch. These clips are usually things like Elvis on the Ed Sullivan Show or Fleetwod Mac singing one song from a concert. Each clip is about four minutes long. I tried an application called Super DVD Creator 9.8 from Holland. As I added clips, it moved a bar at the bottom of ther screen showing how much space I had left. I had about 24 clips selected and still had room. When I burned the DVD, I wound up with only 12 clips and a convoluted menu presented to me when I pressed the menu button on my DVD player's menu button. I don't really care about stills or complicated video editing capa bilities. I tried Roxio's latest but it confused me so I returned it. I had "Show Biz" from Arcsoft a while back the worked fairly well but losit when I had to reformat my hard disk. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks
Bob

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by Former member

I will be kind to you even though you are asking on the wrong forum and have not GOOGLED the issue.

You want a program from Imtoo called DVD Creator 3.

Next time either search the forums or google before you ask.

by sleepin'dawg

DVD Creator 3 is the GWB of DVD creation programs. Pinnacle is much better and there are all sorts of free alternatives @ Downloads or Tucows :0 :p

[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)

by bbusk

I sent a rather terse reply to the first repondent, Norm...I hope you didn't get it. It was not meant to be sent to you.

by bbusk

Thanks for being so "kind". Spare me the lectures.

by captbilly1eye

I've searched all over and tried just about every DVD authoring program around. This is my favorite for quickly and easily burning .AVIs to a DVD. Although it lacks all the editing tools of the larger retail products, I find it does an excellent job when all I want to do is a quick burn with a simple menu. You probably won't find one that's easier to use.

DVD Flick: http://www.dvdflick.net/

Although the ready-made menus are very limited (only four), you can make your own without a whole lot of effort if you know how to edit and convert graphic files. For that, here's my favorite freebie: IrfanView: http://www.irfanview.com/.

Additionally, here's a great free utility for converting any video file into just about any format you can think of (plus it does graphic & audio files, too): Format Factory: http://www.formatoz.com/

If you need a more robust movie-to-DVD program, I'd lean toward Pinnacle or Ulead. If you thought Roxio's was daunting, you would probably do best with Ulead http://www.ulead.com/

I'll be interested to hear what you land on.

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