movie-make-title(1)

💖 movie-make-title — the manual, but make it cute 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

movie-make-title — creates a title sequence that can be used to create a menu with movie-title 🌈

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

movie-make-title -o output -s start_time -e end_time [-n animation]
       -m mode source_movie

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically 💅 this program takes exactly one movie file — any format that mplayer understands, no cap — and converts part of that file into a directory full of JPEG files plus a WAV file. then movie-title can use all that to create menus for DVDs that have more than one movie on them. iconic behavior fr fr 🫶

the way it works is this: the program rips part of the source movie and uses that ripped part as the animated background of the menu that movie-title will create. and the foreground of the menus? those are rectangles with borders around them that act like little TV sets 📺 — they display the first few seconds of each movie on the DVD. literally so cute.

ngl the best way to grasp how the whole system works is by trying it out for yourself. main character energy: just do it ✨

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

the following options are available:

• -o output — specifies the name of the directory that should be created, and it will contain a large number of JPEG files plus a WAV file for the audio of the title sequence 🎧. personally, the author usually uses the name title (short and to-the-point, as one does).
• -s start_time — specifies the starting time, in seconds, of the part of the source movie that you want to rip.

the author usually determines this time by playing the source movie with mplayer and then looking at the status line that mplayer continually updates at the moment that the clip you want as a title starts. then they usually subtract about 5 seconds, because mplayer is unable to seek to exact positions when ripping a part of a movie 😭. usually the seeking resolution is about 5 to 10 seconds, and that is why they subtract 5 seconds.

while the movie part is being ripped, the normal mplayer output will be displayed. if you see that mplayer starts at a time that is later than the start of your clip, press CTRL-C and restart the program with an earlier starting time. 💀

• -e end_time — specifies the ending time, in seconds, of the part of the source movie that you want to rip.

the author usually determines this time by playing the source movie with mplayer and then looking at the status line that mplayer continually updates at the moment that the clip you want as a title ends. then they usually add about 5 seconds, because mplayer is unable to stop at exact positions when ripping a part of a movie. usually the seeking resolution is about 5 to 10 seconds, and that is why they add 5 seconds.

while the movie part is being ripped, the normal mplayer output will be displayed. if you see that mplayer ends at a time that is earlier than the end of your clip, restart the program with a later ending time. 🙈

• -n animation — using this option, you can tell the program what kind of menu you would like to create 👑. the possible arguments are:
  • none — which will cause a menu to be created that will have no previews of the movies, but will only display the background movie, the titles of the main movies and the navigation buttons.
  • static — which will cause a menu to be created that will display a preview image of each movie, but that is not animated.
  • animated — which will cause a menu to be created that will display picture-in-picture animated previews of the movies 🦋.

if you don't specify this option, the default will be animated. slay.

• -m mode — specify either pal or ntsc, depending on whether you are creating a PAL or NTSC DVD. NTSC is an American TV standard, PAL is usually used in Europe and other parts of the world 🌍.

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✨ DIAGNOSTICS ✨

if this program is called with a incorrect set of parameters, it will print a diagnostic message telling the user what went wrong. also, it will then print its usage information, listing all the options and their meanings. helpful king behavior 💜

if the program tells you "ERROR: Cannot find video size for file", this means that mplayer was unable to read the file, or the file is stored in a format that it does not understand. in this case, movie-make-title will not be able to do its work for you 😔. rip.

the program tells you what it is doing while it is running — it's a chatterbox and we love that for it 🎀

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✨ POSTPROCESSING ✨

because the ripping of a part of a movie is not an exact science — thanks to the seeking resolution that mplayer offers — you must edit the result of this program by hand. meaning: you will have to remove any images that not belong at the start and end of your title sequence. and hear me on this one bestie —

do NOT remove any images in the middle of the title sequence: any missing image will be seen as the end of the sequence. ⚠️

the author usually uses the program xv (which is an image viewer for X windows, which you can download at http://www.trilon.com/xv/xv.html) to look at all the images in the directory that you specified with the -o option. in their case, they run xv title/*.jpg. then they remove any images at the start of the sequence and at the end of the sequence that are not actually a part of the title sequence that they had in mind. ✨

just as the images have to be adjusted, the audio file that was produced will have to be edited as well 🎧. you will have to chop off the audio parts at the beginning and the end that you do not want. the file to edit is title.wav in the directory that you specified with the -o option. the author usually edits the WAV file with sweep, a really nice audio editing program for X windows, which may be downloaded from http://sweep.sourceforge.net/. obsessed, honestly.

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✨ EXAMPLE ✨

the command line that the author uses most often is:

movie-make-title -o title -m pal \
       -s 123 -e 234 input_file.avi

this command line simply takes the input file (in AVI format in this case) and converts it for use with movie-title. in this case, they're ripping the part of the movie that starts at second 123 (two minutes and three seconds into the movie) and ends at second 234 (nearly four minutes into the movie) 🌸

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

videotrans(1), movie-title(1), movie-make-title-simple(1), movie-to-dvd(1), movie-compare-dvd(1), movie-rip-epg.data(1)

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

the author is Sven Berkvens-Matthijsse (sven@berkvens.net). please send any project related e-mail to videotrans@berkvens.net 💌

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✨ BUGS ✨

none known. please report any bugs to videotrans@berkvens.net! 🐛✨

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