need video production advice - not devel, but certainly a user case

[Matthew Palmer]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 12:40:57PM -0600, john e wrote:
> My job would be to add a menu and edit the actual video and add text
> overlays and create the master dvd image(s).
> 
> Any software (gpl compatible 100% preferred) and technique advice
> would be greatly welcome.

I can't help you on the actual editing itself, but I made a writeup of my
process to get a bunch of WMV files into a DVD.  A quite similar process
will probably work nicely for you, once you've got video files you're happy
with (via whatever editing process you end up using).  The relevant blog
entry is:
http://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/general/making_dvd_movies.html

- Matt