Making a DVD without menus

Hi all,
I'm a newbie to DVD Studio Pro. I'm wondering if there is a way to make the equivalent of an Autostart movie in iDVD. No menu, no buttons – just put the DVD in the player and it starts.
Thanks for any advice,
Andrew

Thanks for that David,
I was trying what you suggest but in the process have hit another problem that is preventing me from making the DVD at all. The audio is not linked with the video. I have a 2-minute movie that I made in Final Cut Pro. The movie plays fine in FCP. To export from FCP, I made a Reference movie via:
File > Export > QuickTime Movie...
Settings: Current Settings
Include: Audio & Video
Markers: None (there aren't any in my movie)
In DVD Studio Pro, I clicked on the Import button and selected the .mov file.
Two items appear in the Name column: 2min.mov (Video) and 2min.mov (Audio)
I just don't get it. I've watched Larry Jordan's tutorial video on Lynda.com and am following the instructions to the letter. Do you know where I'm going wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Andrew

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Hi
without having to use iDVD and without using any menus.
A. No movie editor FC E or P - or - iMovie can deliver what's needed to make a DVD
without any program preparing the needed code - sort of .mpeg2
B. DVDs without menu can be done in several ways with eg
• Roxio Toast™ - that can do this without any faking what so ever
• iDVD - but You have to fake part of it
iDVD - my list on this
from. Klaus1 in Somerset, UK
How to create a DVD in iDVD6 without menu (there are several options)
1. Easy. Drop your iMovie in the autoplay box in iDVD's Map View, then set your autoplay item (your movie) to loop continously.
Disadvantage. The DVD plays until you hit stop on the remote
2. Still easy. If you don't want your (autoplay) movie to loop, you can create a black theme by replacing the background of a static theme with a black background and no content in the dropzone (text needs to be black as well).
Disadvantage. The menu is still there and will play after the movie. You don't see it, but your disc keeps spinning in the player.
3. Still quite easy but takes more time. Export the iMovie to DV tape, and then re-import using One-Step DVD.
Disadvantage. One-Step DVD creation has been known to be not 100% reliable.
4. (My preferred method) Easy enough but needs 3rd party software. Toast lets you burn your iMovie to DVD without menu - just drag the iMovie project to the Toast Window and click burn.
Disadvantage. you'll need to spend some extra $$ for the software. In Toast, you just drop the iMovie project on the Window and click Burn.
5. The "hard way". Postproduction with myDVDedit (freeware)
Tools necessary. myDVDedit ( www.mydvdedit.com )
• create a disc image of your iDVD project, then double-click to mount it.
• Extract the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders to a location of your choice. select the VIDEO_TS folder and hit Cmd + I to open the Inspector window
• Set permissions to "read & write" and include all enclosed items; Ignore the warning.
• Open the VIDEO_TS folder with myDVDedit. You'll find all items enclosed in your DVD in the left hand panel.
• Select the menu (usually named VTS Menu) and delete it
• Choose from the menu File > Test with DVD Player to see if your DVD behaves as planned.If it works save and close myDVDedit.
• Before burning the folders to Video DVD, set permissions back to "read only", then create a disc image burnable with Disc Utility from a VIDEO_TS folder using Laine D. Lee's DVD Imager.
//lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html
Most certainly more will fill in - this list is a bit old.
Yours Bengt W

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Can I burn a dvd and just have it autoplay on I-DVD3?

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I want to make a straight DVD that stops at the end. Is it possible to do this without using DVDSP? I have exported the files using compressor and burn them in Roxio's Toast, but they will just keep looping. I am on the verge of having to get Final Cut Studio upgrade if there is no other way to do this.
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Thanks for all replies. There are options I see.
In response to last post, I agree that setting jump at end to stop might not always work in 1.5. The full story is that most of my test discs seem to play as I wanted them in Apple's DVD player but not once imported into Toast and saved as disc image. I tried the burning disc in Finder option and this was the only way that seemed to produce the stop at end effect I required. Yet my discs were freezing and crashing in both my 3rd party DVD players and I thought this was down to me burning it using the Finder.
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I was wondering if it is possible to burn a DVD withOUT menus or themes? My goal is to submit a DVD to a TV station. The thing is that they just want to put in the DVD and have it start playing without going to any themes or menus. Is this possible?
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Hi Karsten,
the good old german Zynismus is always very welcome on these warm beaches
actually I'm busy trying to come to terms with Adobe Premiere Pro and it's funny Media Encoder - don't ask me why... - and didn't have access to my little database.
.... and I think all the options were to much for most people
going to the beach bar now - time for a cold one
mish

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Picture quality was equal to the DV tapes in my camcorder and I was very pleased.
Got bored. Used the same movie but added some chapter markers, menus, photos and some music in iDVD and burnt an updated version of the first attempt.
Picture quality, especially on my iBook is a lot grainier and when viewed on my TV looks inferior to the original DVD without all the menus.
I can understand the photos that were placed in the drop zones perhaps not being the correct resolution but why should the picture quality of the movie be any different?

Umm. Just what I thought.
I'll let you know how 'Best quality' fairs but I'm definitely not impressed with my efforts to tart up the original - might just as well left it as it was.
OK, the in-laws wouldn't have any menus or chapters but at least it won't look like it's been filmed with a two bit halfpenny camera!
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20 episodes totaling 50 hours equals about 2.5 hours per episode assuming all episodes have the same duration. Fitting 2.5 hours onto one single layer DVD would require a low bit rate which means quality wouldn't be anywhere near best, but that's a judgement call you'll have to make based on several factors. For example; if there is not much motion in the video (talking heads, etc), you can get by with a lower bit rate and may not notice any quality difference.
>>what is the process>>
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If you want to keep one episode per disc, DVD Studio Pro does have a 150 minute preset or you could use dual-layer discs with a higher bit rate for better quality. Again; your call.
>>what size DVD RW should I buy<<
Size? 12cm. Capacity? Single layer, single sided DVD discs (DVD-5) have a rated capacity of 4.7Gb (4.37Gb actual), including menus. If you use single layer discs and want to keep the quality reasonably good, you'd need at least 50 discs to complete this "set" with each disc holding roughly 2 hours of footage if you keep the menu on each disc simple. Or, you could use dual-layer discs (DVD-9) which have a capacity of about 7.95Gb - almost doubling the recordable capacity. There are also dual-sided, dual-layer discs available (DVD-18) but they are relatively expensive and have to be manually turned over to continue playback ... but they do have roughly 15.9Gb capacity.
>>what bitrate should I use, and what quality I should expect for the burn<<
Exactly; the quality is dependent on the bit rate chosen, as well as the quality of the compression. Using compression markers where needed can greatly increase the quality of playback but will most likely increase the file size of the compressed video. For the best quality, keeping the bit rate as high as possible allowed under the DVD specification will yield the best quality but some DVD players may choke if the bit rate is too high. For best quality I typically aim for a bit rate around 7.6 to 8.0Mbps but that will only allow about one hour of footage.
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3.5Mbps - 120 minutes
5.0Mbps -   95 minutes
6.0Mbps -   82 minutes
7.6Mbps -   65 minutes
8.0Mbps -   60 minutes
-DH

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