Options for ac3/m2v movie maker

[jriker1]

I am used to using Scenarist for my video menu creation and have some low end stuff I created that I really don't want to spend the time generating menus thru Scenarist. So I have an ac3 audio file and an M2V video file. Is there any quick and nice DVD menu creation programs that can accept ac3 audio input and tie it to an M2V file? Most of the ones I see out there either expect the video file to already have the audio in it or don't accept AC3 input. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Cost is not a determining factor.

Thanks.

JR

[Konrad Klar]

DVDLab Pro
http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/dvdlabpro.html

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@Konrad Klar

Hi!

Unless something's recently changed, I'm fairly certain that DVDLab Pro will not accept any .AVI format as input...

[Konrad Klar]

Sorry. Indeed.
I have not read question carefully. It only allows for combining AC3 and MPEG Video files (for menu and for movie).

[jriker1]

DVDLab Pro
http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/dvdlabpro.html

Thanks for the input. Isn't DVDLab more in line with Scenarist, just a bit less complicated? I don't really want to spend any major time on the menus, chapters, or linking. I spend a lot of time with Photoshop when creating my good videos, but again, these are garbage. Just want to take the M2V and AC3 and put them into some program that I can quickly create cool menus with and create DVD's.

Thanks.

JR

[Konrad Klar]

I just use it for such simple operations. DVDLab Pro is of course more powerful tool, but at the same time it is ergonomic - in such sense that advanced options are hidden by default.
DVDLab Pro can create motion menus from background video/picture, and buttons (containing motion sequences extracted from main movie).
Final menu video stream may be encoded to AVI (using VfW codecs installed in system) or by internal MPEG2 encoder (however this last option does not work on some users configurations*)
AVI must be encoded to M2V by external MPEG2 encoder and then may be combined with audio files (AC3, MP2, WAV, DTS).


*) See:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=135749
http://www.mmbforums.com/ipb/index.php?showtopic=18977

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@jriker1

Subsequently changing your question from ".AVI" to "M2V" a day after I posted a response does two things:

1) Makes me look like I don't know what I'm talking about

2) Makes YOU look like YOU don't know what you're talking about

How could you not know the video format ofsome low end stuff I created?Just want to take the M2V and AC3 and put them into some program that I can quickly create cool menus with and create DVD's.

How did you create an .M2V file and an .AC3 file? What was the original source material?