I needed to turn an audition clip file into a DVD that a funder could throw into a DVD player and see the movie on their TV.
I wound up using iDVD. It's meant to be a super simple program for putting your home movies on a disc. But if you actually want to do something really simple, it's not that intuitive.
What I wanted to do was make a DVD that plays one movie file once, without a menu. I could not figure out how to skip having a menu. You can put a movie before the menu. But the menus all seemed to require a minimum of two movies after. So I had to put the movie (an audition clip) before the menu, then twice after the menu.
It worked, but it was ugly. Also, the menus themselves, in their efforts to look "professional," came off as cheesy.
Eventually, I was able to download 1.6GB of other menu options, some which only demand one video after the menu, and don't look as cheesy.
So now: hey, I can make my own DVDs now!
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