My second DVD project

I finished my second DVD project this week. Well, maybe not quite "finished" - I still want to create labels for the disks. My objective in this project was to make a copy of a wedding DVD from one of my cousins in Poland.

My parents went to Poland last year to attend his wedding. He gave them a nicely produced DVD as a memento. Unfortunately my parents weren't able to view it on the player I got them for Christmas. Without understanding too much about DVD technology, I guessed the problem might be a formatting incompatibility. Like NTSC versus PAL for video tape. I was hoping the software that came with the burner would let me create a copy in the appropriate format.

Now sometimes I have a tendency to make things more complicated than they need to be. I struggled with the authoring features and the menu setup features, to try to create a menu that would look just like the one on the original DVD. I thought I would have to re-author the entire DVD. However, all I had to do, was just copy all the files from the source disk to my hard drive. Then use the recording software to copy those files from my hard drive to a blank disk. It was a slow process but I felt victorious when it finished.