Hi,
I used Corel Photo-Paint x3 as I am comfortable with that one. Menu Designer in PD hasn't changed in a long time (it is a cumbersome module to work with). As for the second question as to selecting the clip that shows, I believe you can but not sure as to how (or for sure if you can). I am retired so spend my time with my computer and PS4 (now) and trying to help members here. I am not an expert with PD tho'.
I try and figure out work around for a things I want to achieve.
Jim
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Quote: I hate to keep bugging you...but what program did you edit it with....still seems odd that you can't pick what section of the movie shows in the window.. If you have followed this entire thread...

About 13 responses ago I posted for you how to do it, did you try it? What did not work?

Jeff

Jeff, I looked at what you said... the only way I see ANYTHING there other than start and stop is to repeatedly hit play, and pause several times. Then the only markers that show are the chapter markers in the movie. Unless I'm missing something... or the program is....

Here is a screen shot of what I'm talking about.

Sounds like you are in preview disk playback area?

1) Go to Create Disc
2) Select the Content tab
3) Select play on your Title 1 video
4) When it starts to play, the controls appear in the lower left of the screen, click pause (post a screen capture of this)
5) You should see a very little orange flag in the left corner of the video progress bar
6) Click the select current frame as title thumbnail icon (6th icon from the left), the orange flag jumps to location

Edit: your newly attached screen shot shows you hit "Preview" follow steps 1,2,3

Jeff

Jim THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU! ....obviously, I was in the wrong "preview" area. I couldn't actually drag the little gold triangle... but if I let it play to the area I want to show, .. pause, then hit the button that says "set the current frame as the title thumbnail" it worked! And guess what, .. even PD tech support told me that it wasn't possible to change what shows there... so YOU are the man in my book! ....

And... since you ARE... what SPECIFICALLY PLEASE are your suggested settings for the best quality output (widescreen) And, I assume you suggest producing prior to creating the disk so you can make such selections? Does doing the "produce" operation MANY times reduce the quality of what's on the timeline?? I've tried about everyway (mpeg2, mpeg4, AVC) possible and they all look like crap in the preview window ater the Production operation finishes.

Oh, and one more... what is "Authoring" ... is it different than producing?

Thanks again... and God Bless!

Hi,
Producing several times doesn't reduce quality as does JPG files, but producing to a different format may. I suggest (may sound like a lot of trouble but saves puttin strain on cpu) each little video you have ( I assume they are videos of different occasion) as individual productions and previewing them (to get an idea of the quality), then in a new project go to the "Create disk" module >content tab and add each from there. The final thing would be to create the DVD ( I recommend burning to Folder) then you can preview the finished 'product" without making coasters, and you can catch things you missed or don't like. I use ImgBurn (free)to burn to DVD from the folder you created.
What codec you use AVhCD, H.264 etc will depend on peoples players as some players don't like those formats, the safest is Mpeg- at 1920X1080 resolution as it is widely accepted.
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Jim you say mpeg .... would that be 2 - or 4?

Mpeg 2 is the one I use
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