About DVDs


Intro to the DVD Feature


EasyWorship lets you use your computer's DVD drive to show segments of a DVD during a presentation or service, e.g., a missions update, sermon illustration or service intro. Quickly select entire segments or chapters of a movie, or set custom In and Out points to show only a short clip. EasyWorship was not designed to copy or burn video files from a DVD. Instead, EasyWorship lets you create custom "markers" that tell EasyWorship exactly what to play from the DVD. That means the DVD has to be in the DVD drive for this feature to work.


DVDs Explained


EasyWorship lets you use your computer's DVD drive to show segments of a DVD during a presentation or service, e.g., a missions update, sermon illustration, or service intro. Quickly select entire segments or chapters of a movie, or set custom In and Out points to show only a short clip. This is different than capturing a DVD feed through a capture card. It's also different than copying or burning video files from a DVD. Instead, EasyWorship lets you create custom "markers" that tell EasyWorship exactly what to play from the DVD. That means the DVD has to be in the DVD drive for this feature to work.


DVD Structure


The video content in a DVD is divided into titles and menus. Titles are further divided into units called parts of titles (PTTs). More often, these are called scenes, chapters, or segments. These could be compared to using folders and sub-folders in the directory tree structure of a computer. The viewer can navigate to specific titles or chapters within titles. Each individually separated video file on a DVD may be referred to as a segment.


The author of a DVD decides how to divide the content into titles and chapters. When a DVD contains a feature-length film, the entire film is often placed in one title or segment, and sometimes divided into chapters for the individual scenes. Extra features on the DVD, such as trailers or deleted scenes, are placed in separate titles or segments. However, these divisions are arbitrary, and many DVDs are organized differently.


The EasyWorship DVD editor can play the entire movie, predefined segments, or you can select parts of the DVD called clips. On any compatible DVD, you may set Mark In and Mark Out points to edit a clip. You may define a clip name for that edited clip. The DVD from which you wish to play a clip must remain in the DVD-ROM drive. EasyWorship does not copy the DVD or segments, only a path to turn on that selected segment or clip. If you have multiple drives, EasyWorship will remember the drive from which you edited your specific clip. Multiple clips or segments may be chosen from your DVD.


Setting the DVD Region


In order to create DVD clips in EasyWorship, the DVD region has to be set on the DVD player in the computer. Many DVD drives come from the factory with no region set.  If the wrong region or no region is set, you will be able to create clips, but will not be able to play them back after removing and reinserting the DVD into the drive.  Follow the instructions below to set the region on the DVD drive in the computer.


    1. Open Computer or My Computer or This PC.
    2. Right-click the DVD drive.
    3. Click Properties.
    4. A properties window will appear.
    5. Click the Hardware tab.
    6. Select the DVD drive from the list.
    7. Click Properties at the bottom. The Properties window for the DVD drive will appear.
    8. Click Change settings at the bottom of the General tab.
    9. Click the DVD Region tab.
    10. Select the appropriate country.
    11. Click OK.


       NOTE                The DVD region can be changed a maximum of 5 times in Windows.