GagHalfrunt
Lifer
Okay, this could be tough, but if anyone can help the Geeks at AT should have the answers.
Last year I helped a friend do a DVD for his business. I downloaded and tried a bunch of different programs, found one that worked perfectly and the project was a great success. In the interim year I've gotten a new computer, don't have the installation program to that software saved and can't even remember the name of it. Before I download and install 100 different programs looking for a needle in a haystack maybe somebody here can recognize it based on description. I'm 100% sure that I downloaded it around this time last year. So it had to exist in that format at that time and I think it was a free trial.
The program was a DVD editor, it loaded up existing vob and mpg files and allowed unlimited parts to be "snipped" out and recompiled. Think of taking a DVD of a TV program. Set start point for first segment, run to commercial and set end point, scroll forward to set a new start point after the commercial, another end point right before the next commercial, etc. A lot of programs do something similar, but only allow a single start/end pointer to be inserted. I recall this one was relatively special in that it was unlimited segments.
It also allowed graphic files like .jpg and .bmp to be used as transitions between scenes, ie, point at a file on your hard drive, set a time lapse and that picture would stay on screen for x seconds and then transition into the next video segment. The same thing was doable with sounds like wavs or mp3s so that the transition had sound. It would build a project like
video segment - picture with sound 10 seconds - wipe left - video segment - picture - wipe right - video segment - etc
After all the start/end points, pictures, sounds and transitions were selected it would build the vobs/ifos/etc for the new DVD and even burn it. It was VERY easy to use, just a matter of dragging tabs for start and end points on a video timeline and clicking through normal Windows dialog boxes to find the pictures and sounds.
Does that sound familiar to anyone?
Last year I helped a friend do a DVD for his business. I downloaded and tried a bunch of different programs, found one that worked perfectly and the project was a great success. In the interim year I've gotten a new computer, don't have the installation program to that software saved and can't even remember the name of it. Before I download and install 100 different programs looking for a needle in a haystack maybe somebody here can recognize it based on description. I'm 100% sure that I downloaded it around this time last year. So it had to exist in that format at that time and I think it was a free trial.
The program was a DVD editor, it loaded up existing vob and mpg files and allowed unlimited parts to be "snipped" out and recompiled. Think of taking a DVD of a TV program. Set start point for first segment, run to commercial and set end point, scroll forward to set a new start point after the commercial, another end point right before the next commercial, etc. A lot of programs do something similar, but only allow a single start/end pointer to be inserted. I recall this one was relatively special in that it was unlimited segments.
It also allowed graphic files like .jpg and .bmp to be used as transitions between scenes, ie, point at a file on your hard drive, set a time lapse and that picture would stay on screen for x seconds and then transition into the next video segment. The same thing was doable with sounds like wavs or mp3s so that the transition had sound. It would build a project like
video segment - picture with sound 10 seconds - wipe left - video segment - picture - wipe right - video segment - etc
After all the start/end points, pictures, sounds and transitions were selected it would build the vobs/ifos/etc for the new DVD and even burn it. It was VERY easy to use, just a matter of dragging tabs for start and end points on a video timeline and clicking through normal Windows dialog boxes to find the pictures and sounds.
Does that sound familiar to anyone?
