The Stranger DVD Re-author

Just keeping up with another project I’m working on - building new Stranger DVD discs. The main reason was because of our new logo, but there are other benefits.
1. The software I used to author these (Sonic Producer) didn’t support Global Variable, so doing subtitles with a menu structure wasn’t really an option. This is why the set doesn’t currently have subtitles. However, I did put Closed Captioning on it instead.
2. The menu order of events is a little choppy, so I’ve re-designed that a bit so it’s smoother.
3. The cameras we used has some issues with them, so the bottom 2 lines in the video would flash on and off. You can’t see this with a regular TV, so most people won’t notice, but if you play it back on a computer, it’ll be obvious. So, since I’m re-doing the set, I’m re-rendering all the footage, blanking out that portion so it’s not a problem.
4. But in doing so, it destroys the Closed Captioning that’s on the video files now. But that’s ok, because I can now add CC in the DVD Authoring process.
So, all in all, it’s just a major crunch—in the sense that the computer has to crunch through all this data (over 130 gb) converting it 2 times before it’s ready for me to re-author.
Believe it or not, this is less work than putting together the Interactive DVD a while back. And it’s just on the heels of doing all this yet another time for the eLearning course we are building.

And just for fun here's an old video from cutting a tree down at Jamie & Chris' place in IL.

And while I'm at it, I might as well put up the other one, recorded by our neighbor. (No audio to speak of, as it was from inside the house.)