On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 22:59 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Being now the happy owner of a digital video recorder, I am experimenting and 
> learning how to get the video in the computer and burn discs.  I have burned 
> my first disc that plays in my DVD player!

w00t!!  I've just been doing the same!  I have 1 1/2 hours of disneyland
fun I'm trying to muck with.


> I want to create a graphic in GIMP to use as a scene title.  The Kino FX 
> allows you to specify a file to use to render a transition effect.  I am 
> follow a time from this web site, http://www.a2rt.org/vid/doc.html (look 
> under the "FX" heading), that states this file must be "720x576 px and saved 
> as a TIFF."  However, when I pull it into Kino, the graphic file in question 
> is badly "scrambled" almost beyond recognition.
> 
> When you save a single frame out of the video stream, Kino saves it as 640x480 
> so I resized my graphic to match this.  It did not help, just changed the 
> scramble a bit.  :^(
> 
> Does anyone have experience using Kino to do this?  What am I doing wrong?

I haven't tried it exactly like this, yet, but there are 2 suggestions I
have that might make things a bit...happier?  1st is varsha:

http://varsha.sf.net

oooh, it makes making dvd's *so* much easier.  it also creates a
dvdauthor xml file so you can tweak the final layout in ways that varsha
doesn't support yet.

Also, the best tutorial I've seen so far for making dvd on *only* linux
is at:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709&highlight=dvd+author

Caution:  alot of it you can ignore if you are using varsha.  i.e.
Making the menus, etc.  I think between the 2 links about you might get
want you want.

David
-- 
I want a do over.

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