February 06, 2005, 19:54Figured it out...
On Saturday, Joe came over to watch hang out and watch
Star Trek. We ended up watching three episodes of
Deep Space Nine: "One Little Ship" (since he'd seen the first half of the episode recently but didn't get to see the end), "His Way" (since I was looking for another "fun" episode from the sixth season, and he hadn't seen that episode before), and "Children of Time" (since Joe remembered seeing the end of that one, but not the beginning).
While he was here, we took a look at my DVD writer and give it a test run. With my digital recording of
Enterprise's "Daedalus", I used InterMedia's WinDVD Creator 2 to edit out the commercials (it was seamless!), make scene menus, and record a finished DVD. I used a super high-resolution image of the Enterprise I got back in the summer of 2001 for the background image. Since I couldn't figure out how to separate the audio track from the video track, I couldn't get the Enterprise theme song from the recording, I had to use the first season version from the
Enterprise soundtrack for the menu background music.
It took three tries to get everything set up correctly, such as getting still images for the chapter breaks (which I forgot the first time), getting the volume correctly balanced (it was much too loud the first time, so we adjusted it the second time, but discovered that you have to balance each chapter individually (or else we didn't see how to apply the setting for all chapters at once)), getting all the labels set (I'd set them the first time, but when I changed the number of chapters per scene selection screen, it reset all of the other settings), and so on. But fortunately, DVD-R's are fairly cheap.
So I'm going to have to start moving all my recorded episodes onto DVD, since I'm down to only 24Gb free on my 160Gb drive!
davidh
two replies:
What type of DVD writer do you have, David? I've been thinking of getting one for my PC, but... I can't decide which one to go for. All the review sights seem to have all of them with pros and cons, and have no idea what to look for in one. I got to admit, your post here about building your own Enterprise one has gotten me excited for the idea of trying something like that.
Lee Jamilkowski () - February 07 '05, 22:39