You Oughta Be in Pictures - A Sneak Preview of the Top DVD Authoring Programs Manitowoc WI

Posted by : Joe DeRouen

Ever wish you could add links to the Internet from the DVDs you author? Or how about a Powerpoint presentation, MP3 files, or even just photos? Adding the content is easy enough with most programs,but finding it is often left up to the viewer's ingenuity and willingness to poke around on the DVD using their PC. What good is including a PDF Christmas card with your DVD of your family vacation if your friends and family have to have to use Windows Explorer to find it?

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eDVD (from Sonic) is a third-party application that enables you to link chapters to outside content or other material already on the DVD. In addition to providing links to previously-hidden DVD-ROM content, the program can provide links to any website or web content, provided the DVD is viewed on a PC or television with Internet access.

The app is amazingly simple to use. Once you've authored a DVD in another program (say, Nero or Easy MediaCreator, or Sonic's own high-end DVD it Pro) you simply import the VIDEO_TS folder of your already-built project into eDVD. Once there, you navigate through a menu consisting of your DVD's chapters and add whatever links you desire. Using the program, you can link to just about any content on the Web as well as MP3s, text files, Word documents,Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, and a whole lot more.

One caveat:You will probably need to think ahead when authoring your DVDs and add blank chapters unless you want to overwrite content or confuse thev...

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