You can create DVD chapter markers in iMovie, Final Cut Express, besides Final Cut Pro. IDVD will recognize these chapter markers as well as DVDSP. On 7/6/2004 9:59 AM, "Gregg Gorrie" <ggorrie at telus.net> wrote: > on 7/6/04 9:42 AM, Claire Hart at hart at arn.net wrote: > >> Tell me if I'm understanding the difference between "authoring" and >> "editing", in a motion picture DVD, for example: >> >> 1. When you EDIT "Lord of the Rings," you are moving this scene before >> that scene, panning here to there, adding a sound track and inching it >> left or right to fit the scene, adding transitions between scenes, >> adding text such as "one year later," etc. >> 2. When you AUTHOR "Lord of the Rings," you place the movie here, and >> the info about the director there, and the interview with the actors >> after that, and dividing the movie into 20 or so segments, and adding >> the menu so you can go directly to a certain place in the movie, and >> adding the option to see it in some other language, and adding the >> trailers, etc. >> >> Am I getting the idea? >> >> Thanks, >> Claire >> > > Pretty much. Just a note on dividing the movie ... you don't have to really > "divide" the movie as such. Final Cut Pro, for example, will allow you to > create "chapter markers" which can be accessed from within DVD Studio Pro. > You create buttons which link to the individual chapters. But it sounds like > you've got basic concepts down.