Hey everyone. You would think I'd know by now, but I still have little idea on how to burn a DVD (like ones you buy at stores). I (sort of) successfully burnt a DVD of all the 1970s promo videos (compiled by me) with WDVDM, and popped it in the DVD player. I was pleased with the overall result, but when I tried watching any of the videos and used the 'Skip' option, it only skipped a minute forward into the video. I found out that they had cut each video into five 'mini-chapters', making it slightly frustrating to watch happily. Is there ant way to stop this from happening on Windows DVD Maker, or do I need another program?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2015-08-21 21:59 by BeforeTheyMakeMeRun.

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BeforeTheyMakeMeRun
Hey everyone. You would think I'd know by now, but I still have little idea on how to burn a DVD (like ones you buy at stores). I (sort of) successfully burnt a DVD of all the 1970s promo videos (compiled by me) with WMM, and popped it in the DVD player. I was pleased with the overall result, but when I tried watching any of the videos and used the 'Skip' option, it only skipped a minute forward into the video. I found out that they had cut each video into five 'mini-chapters', making it slightly frustrating to watch happily. Is there ant way to stop this from happening on Windows Movie Maker, or do I need another program?

Is there a menu for chapters making (or marking) in the program?.....My DVD stand alone recorder has this, the default position with me is automatic chapter marking @ 10 mins. I can alter this to suit or switch it off completely and just put marks at the end of each song.......

I would imagine you have something like this somewhere in the program.........

It doesn't give me an option for that, at least none that I can see.

wmm and/or wdvdm don't have that option
so yes, you need another program.

for instance:
dvdstyler
ps:look for the portable version so you won't have malware

some other progs for authoring dvd

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BeforeTheyMakeMeRun
Hey everyone. You would think I'd know by now, but I still have little idea on how to burn a DVD (like ones you buy at stores). I (sort of) successfully burnt a DVD of all the 1970s promo videos (compiled by me) with WDVDM, and popped it in the DVD player. I was pleased with the overall result, but when I tried watching any of the videos and used the 'Skip' option, it only skipped a minute forward into the video. I found out that they had cut each video into five 'mini-chapters', making it slightly frustrating to watch happily. Is there ant way to stop this from happening on Windows DVD Maker, or do I need another program?

Hi BeforeTheyMakeMeRun,

Are you getting same issue when playing these DVD's on a Media Player from your computer?

Not exactly understanding your question:

If the program you used to make these DVD's allows you to make chapters you can choose how long you want each chapter for example every 5 or 10 minutes. You can also make each video as a chapter.

If the program does not give y0u any options to set the duration of each chapters but sets one for you by default it would be best to us another program.

In my experience I had used a program that gave me no chpaters but in default there was 1 and when i went to re-do it with another program to add menu and chapters for each 5 minutes duration it would not allow me. I had to do it allover.

For me the best program (for non-professionals) for authoring DVDs is TMPGEnc DVD Authoring Works. But this program isn't for free you can buy it for 100 $: [www.pegasys-inc.com].
My experiences with free programs: All of them have a lot of weaknesses!

See also discussion here:
[www.iorr.org]

BeforeTheyMakeMeRun, I know what you mean. I have a program (DVDStyler) that defaults chapter points at fixed intervals into longer clips. I can get rid of them with one highlight and pressing "delete". They can be got rid of for good by changing default chapter length to 0 in configuration/settings. Hopefully there's somewhere in your program where you can make your preferred choice about chapter points, either in setup or your specific compilation. It's not a good program if it forces arbitrary chapter points without ability to remove them if you want. DVDStyler is free and very easy to use. Check it out.



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I too use DVDStyler and works fine for me.
I especially love it for making my own menues and chapters the way i want them to appear. Plus it's free and it can be installed or download the portable version which can be used without being installed.