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Title:	Nero Vision 5 DVD Authoring Guide
Description:	A guide on how to use Nero Vision 5 to create your own DVD, complete with menus
Author/Publisher:	DVDGuy
Ease of use:	Intermediate
Software Used:	IfoEdit, Nero Vision
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Page 2 of 7: Starting and setting up a new project

Step 1: Starting and setting up a new project

Start Nero Vision. You will be shown the following screen, click on "Make DVD" and select the "DVD-Video" option.

You should now be presented with the "Content" screen where you can import your existing video files. We'll get back to this later. First, select the disc type you plan on using to burn this project ("DVD" is for your standard single layer 4.7 GB disc, while "DVD-9" refers to dual layered media). The size bar to the left of this selection menu indicates the amount of space your project will take (it will be empty now since we haven't loaded in any files yet). Any problems with the file size will be shown here as well, and you can press the question mark icon to the right of the disc type select menu to find out what's wrong.

Next, click on the "More" button on the bottom and press the "Video Options" button. This should open the "Video Options" setup screen, where you can configure the setup options for this project.

On the "General" tab, you can configure the mode of the video (PAL/NTSC) - if you don't know which mode your country uses, you can select it based on your country's name. If the source files you have are not in the same video format, it will be converted to the format. Nero SmartEncoding should be set to "Enabled" to allow Nero Vision to determine when best to re-encode the video and audio (although generally, it will re-encode the video even if the source format is already DVD/VOB files that will fit onto the disc).

On the "DVD-Video" tab, you can configure the transcoding quality. Most of the time, it's best to leave the "Quality Setting" at "Automatic (fit to disc), as this will ensure the best possibly quality given the size of your blank media. Alternative, you can select the "High Quality" mode to ensure the best quality, but there is a chance that it won't all fit onto one 4.7 GB blank disc and that you will need further processing in DVD Shrink (which is not covered by this guide). Leave "Sample Format" on "Automatic". The "Encoding Mode" option should be set to "High Quality (2-Pass VBR)" for the maximum quality - please note that this will roughly double the encoding time as compared to the "Fast Encoding" mode, and a movie that will just fit onto a standard single layer DVD recordable disc will take about 2 hours processing time on a medium spec PC.

"Aspect ratio" should be set to "Automatic", the same with "Audio format".

Press "OK" to close the setup screen. You might be asked if you want these settings to be the new default setting, I would choose "No" (and also click the option so I never get asked the question again).

Now that you're back on the "Content" screen, there is an option called "Create chapters automatically" option. This option, when selected, will automatically create chapters for your movie at regular intervals. These chapters will not actually be on the chapter select screen of the menu, but can be accessed like normal chapters during playback. If you want to manually set the chapters yourself (and these would be added to the "Chapter Select" part of your DVD menu), then leave this option unchecked. You can click on the "More" button again to minimize the additional setup options.

Next to the More button, you can select the "Save" button to save your project. The first time you click on this button, it will ask you where to save the project file. If you click on the "Save" button after this, it will automatically save the project to the specified file (although you don't get a prompt or progress report, which might seem to suggest nothing happened). Remember to save your project often.

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Article Navigation:

Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Starting and setting up a new project <--
Page 3: Load the input files, editing and chapter creation
Page 4: Menu Creation
Page 5: Preview
Page 6: Rendering the project
Page 7: Optional: IfoEdit 16:9 Flag Processing

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Hi, your guide is Ok.But I have some problems with nero vision 5.x. I have a avi (DV) video at 853 x 480 resolutions (16:9) when I import to NV to make a dvd video, it resize to 720 x 480 and add black bars to the left and right side of my video!!!. At this url http://wiki.digital-digest.com/index.php/DVD_Authoring_Tools_Roundup they mention the following in the CONS for Nero Vision "Options to set resolutions/letterbox options are well hidden in another section of the Nero Ultra package" where is that hidden options??? could you help me???? (I tried ciberlink producer and it working fine with my widescreen video

Great Guide !!!! Help Me.... In Nero Vision 4 can chose only Menu Chapter whitout Main Menu, in this version (5) Select Menu Chapter and Main Menu aperace. What I can do, if have only Chapter. Tnks ! Jesus

!!!! help me please ... i have nero 8 with nero vision 5 but when i go to add video files from hard drive they don't go in it closes down ....what am i doing wrong.... when i had trial version of nero 8 it worked but with full version it not workin... have you any ideas for me ...?

i am adding mpg files and not vob. the problem is it does not merge all the mpg files as a single dvd. When i play any clip from the menu, it plays and when clip is finished it jumps to the menu again. How do i make it run continuously?

rahiltg: What you may need to do is to load in the first set of the MPG file, edit that and then add the additional MPG files in the set (the ones you want to continous play) to the timeline (basically using the Nero Vision video editor to "join" all your MPG files into one). See page 3 on how to access the video editor, and when in there, click on the first tab, use the "Browse for media" button to load in your video files and add to the "My Media FIles" list, and then drag the video files in sequences to the "Video Track' timeline. Another way to do this is to load in the MPG files as separate tracks like you are doing now. Then go to page 4 of this guide (menu creation), under the "Disc/Project" section, change the "End Action" to "Play next title" - this will play the next title in the list as opposed to returning to the menu after playing every track. If your DVD only has this one set of video files, then this works fine. But if you have multiple tracks where some should return to the menu after playback, then you will need to use the first method above.

hi! hope you can help me.. i have no problem going thru the whole process, i even tested the preview and works fine, my problem is whenever i playback the project, the chapter selection wont work, i can select a chapter, but when its about to play it stops the whole project, ive done to projects and got the same result...

Hello, I have no problems with any of the steps, most of my projects have been successfully burned, with the exception of two. In Nero vision 5, when I'm in the burning process, everything goes well, the menus are all trancoded, but in the middle of the burning vision closes without notice and returns to the StartSmart home. This has happened to me twice. It's really stressing trying to figure out what's wrong, I've looked all over the net and can't find anything. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, Nice Guide! I actually have the opposite problem from rahiltg. When I bring 2 .mov files into Vision, create buttons, and test the menu it plays the clips together. Meaning, when I press the first clip, it plays and when it finishes it goes right to the other clip and plays it too. I WANT them to play separately. I WANT it to go back to the menu after the clip plays. How can I make sure this happens? Thanks.