How can you 'record' yourself demoing a DVD that you have made

Cooldraft wrote on 6/12/2004, 9:02 AM

This cross topic, so forgive me. But I would like to put a DVD demo on my website, but an unsure how to do it. I would like to have 10 seconds of the menu and the pointer being 'moved' and pressed, then 10 seconds if the resulting video, fade out ahd back to the menu, loop? Hmm, anyone?

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Spot|DSE wrote on 6/12/2004, 9:13 AM

You'd need to make a streaming video and not use MPEG 2 as the format, which is what your DVD is. Take the same media you made the DVD with, edit the sections to be what you'd like to have them be, and then render as a stream. You can code the html to loop the stream xxx times if you wish.

Cooldraft wrote on 6/12/2004, 9:19 AM

What software do you record the DVD strreaming video with?

Jameson_Prod wrote on 6/12/2004, 5:54 PM

Maybe I am mis-reading but I believe what you are wanting to do is a screen capture. You are wanting to capture the action on the screen of your dvd menu and video. Camtasia is very good but pricey. Snag It will do it also. Micorsoft Encoder (don't have the url) is a free program that will also allow you to do this. Once captured, then you can encode into a file format that fits the web....Quicktime or WMV.

Good luck.

kameronj wrote on 6/13/2004, 8:15 AM

Build it in Vegas.

I put the same answer in your other topic in DVDA. But I'll expand it here.

Although you could use camtasia to capture your screen movements (and such) and render it all down to a file to stream from your website....since you only want a little portion of the finished product - just rebuild it in Vegas.

You can take a snapshop of the DVDA screen....bring it into Vegas...use track motion to simulate clicking the screen and going to different menus. Rather simple, actually.

And, you will probably get it done quicker and with better quality doing it this way (plus you have wider control on the finished product).