DVD Creation

To create a DVD you need to prepare your resources and then bring them all together in a DVD authouring application. A number of different programmes are shown for each part of the process so you can try alternatives if you run into trouble.

There are 3 main stages of creating a DVD

• Creating your Mpeg2 files
• Creating Subtitle Files (optional)
• Creating a DVD with menus (optional) with this resources in a DVD authouring programme.
  

A full break down of the different software available to achieve each task follows broken down in to sections; Creating Mpeg2 files, creating subtitle resources, creating a DVD with a DVD authouring application

Creating your Mpeg2 files

This file may have been captured from a camera or exported from a video project or downloaded from the Internet. It may also be taken from another DVD.

Create Mpeg2 files from a file or DVD using Avidemux

Systems: Windows, Mac, Linux 

Using Avidemux to create Mpeg2 files from files : 

Using Avidemux to create Mpeg2 files from DVD disks: 

Full Avidemux Manual 

Create Mpeg2 files from a file or DVD using using FFmpegx

Systems:  Mac

Using FFmpegx to create Mpeg2 files from files or from another DVD :

Working with Subtitles   

Subtitles on DVDs are overlayed as image streams. This means that you have to use a tool to convert them back to text before you can start to edit or translate them. The are a couple of tools to do that.

You may also wish to edit or translate subtitles and you'll need a subtitle editing programme to do that.

Extracting DVD Subtitles as Srt files using Avidemux 

Systems: Windows, Mac, Linux 

Avidemux can select a subtitles stream from a DVD and save it as series of image files. Then it use an OCR (optical character recognition) tool  to convert it to text.   

Extracting DVD subtitles 

Extracting DVD Subtitles as Srt files using FFmpegx  

Systems: Mac

Ffmpegx is an encoder that can also convert DVD subtitles to text.   

Extracting DVD subtitles 

Creating / Editing subtitle files using Subtitle Worshop

 

Systems: Windows

Subtitle Workshop allows you to create or edit subtitle files. It also has a translate mode.  

Creating / editing subtitles with Subtitle workshop
 

Creating / Editing subtitle files using Miyu

   

Systems: Mac

Miyu is an application to  create or edit subtitle files.  

Creating / editing subtitles with Subtitle workshop 

Creating / Editing subtitle files using Jubler

 

Systems: Windows, Mac and Linux

Jubler is a cross platform application to create subtitle files.  

Full Manual: Creating / editing subtitles with Jubler 

Creating a DVD with a DVD authouring application

 

DVD authouring with DVDAuthorGui

Systems: Windows

This can work with multiple menus, create chapters and work with many subtitle files.

Full Manual: DVDAuthorGui Manual on Flossmanuals

DVD authouring with GuiDVDAuthor.

 

Systems: Windows

This is less advanced than DVDAuthorGui but contains many useful features for simple DVDs.

Tutorial Creating a Multi-lingual DVD with GuiDVDAuthor

DVD authouring using FFmpegx

Systems: Mac OSX 10.2 onwards

A way of creating a Simple DVD with a subtitle with no menu.

Creating a simple DVD in Ffmpegx

DVD authouring using Adobe Encore

Systems: Windows

A professional DVD authoring application

Creating a Multi-lingual DVD using Adobe Encore

DVD authouring using DVD Studio Pro

Systems: Mac

A professional DVD authoring application

Documentation: to come.. 

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