Can it be done? (600 stops)

FijiDVD wrote on 1/18/2013, 11:36 PM
We are trying to convert curriculum that was released in the old laserdisc format to DVD. The laserdisc makes extensive use of stop-frames as well as chapter stops. In a typical 'still frame sequence' appears after a video segment: first a question appears (in a single video frame), then the teacher advances one frame to the answer, then another question is in the 3rd frame, followed by the answer in the fourth frame, etc. We need to have the disc stop on a specific frame about 600 times total. Is there a way to do this with DVD Architect (or any other authoring software)?

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PeterDuke wrote on 1/19/2013, 4:55 AM
It looks to me to be a bit like a Powerpoint presentation. There is software to convert a Powerpoint presentation to DVD. I think it works by converting each PPT slide to a menu page on the DVD. One side effect is the menu navigation buttons that overlay the slide/page.
videoITguy wrote on 1/19/2013, 12:07 PM
Actually a Laserdisc programming system had nothing at all to do with the kind of DVD/Blu-ray interface that you are used to these days. Remember Laserdisc was running long before the other later forms were invented.

What Laserdisc programming (in code) was akin to was the popular multi-media training development languages. There were many different languages developed - one of the most popular was the Toolbook set developed by Microsoft partner, Paul Allen, in Bellevue, Washington. I have been a user of that language since it was first developed and I still use it. But it has nothing to do with the DVD standard protocols.

You can do some similar things ( a little on the cumbersome side) with a DVD, but not nearly as stylized or useful to the client. I would not recommend trying to go very far in that direction on a DVD format.
musicvid10 wrote on 1/19/2013, 10:29 PM
Actually, Peter's analogy was not that bad.
Why not create a Powerpoint presentation using the laserdisc content?