Create Real Estate Property Show

[bubbaleroy]

I know you have all seen them. A local Real Estate Home Show on Sat or Sun morning. I want to create one for commercial properties. I am a Commercial Realtor in Iowa. To experiment I captured one of those shows to avi. Converted with TMPGEnc and created a DVD with Maestro. I was able to do all the basic menuing and chapters for each home.

Now I want to produce one from scratch. I know I will need a good NLE and animation package. I have looked at Premier, Vegas, and Ulead on the web but I don't want to shell out the money only to find out I should have purchased something else. This is what I will want to create on DVD:

A 30 second or so intro, Company Logo scrolls on screen, buildings fade in to same screen, background music, etc.

A menu then comes up with options: Play (the complete show), Property Selection Menu (Sale or Lease), Type Menu (Retail, Office, Industrial, Warehouse, Land), Individual Property Selection. Extras.

I will use both DV footage and stills for the Individual Properties. I'll want to overlay the Realtor's photo, price and property address. I would like to playback in real time so that I can record the audio track (property features) as I am watching the video.

I'll want to create a good reusable template so that I can remove or add properties as thay sell, expire, new listings, etc.

What are some of your suggestions?

Thanks,
Mark

[Foambullet]

Most of what you're asking about depends more on how the DVD is mastered, and not the editing. I think you could probably get more help if you went to one of the DVD forums.

[theReal]

I was at a small company recently that makes commercial movies for different large companies on DVD, VCD, CDROM. All they were using was Adobe Premiere 6.5 for editing, 3D Studio Max for the animations. It seemed they where getting along pretty well with these two programs.

However for the DVD authoring they were using a Mac (I can't remember what the program was called, but they said it was only available for Mac)

[bubbaleroy]

Thanks for the replies. I have decided to go with the ULead products. I ordered MediaStudio Pro after downloading a demo and comparing to Sonic Foundry Vegas Video. I was also already using ULead PhotoImpact and I will be ordering 3d Studio in the near future. I believe I will be able to do everything I need with the ULead product line.

[DDogg]

..after downloading a demo..

heh, I did too and it crashed 5 times in a few minutes. I hope it works out better for you. In fairness, I DO think I was doing some slightly crazy stuff with avisynth and vfapi at the time, though. Maybe it just did not like it.

[bubbaleroy]

I have only used it with a captured huffy avi and stills. I think it works great. When I used the same file in Vegas, any time I would try to overlay text or an image, the preview as well as the output would become distorted. Maybe I didn't attempt to tweak Vegas enough but with MovieStudio working so well, I didn't bother (I was also a little concerned about the stability of Sonic Foundry).

[DDogg]

The key word is "preview". It only gives you an approximation as a render or pre-render is required once you add text or a special effect.