How do you combine projects

[garana]

I 2 edited projects (*.vsp) and need to combine them onto 1 dvd. How is this done in VS9?

[Ron P.]

Are you wanting them to be just 1 long video, or 2 videos on 1 DVD?

If you are wanting to combine them, so that they are just one long video, then you can do it a couple of ways.

1. Render your first project as an DV-AVI ( or same as project settings). Then open your second project and import the video file you created with the 1st project. Now render that as your DVD-Compliant MPEG2 file.

2. Or with your 1st project open, insert your 2nd project (.VSP). Then render that as a DVD-Compliant MPEG2 file.

Now if you just want to include both as seperate videos on a DVD, then render each project as a compliant DVD MPEG 2. Once that is done, Go to File>New Project. Then go to Share>Create Disc (which is the burning module of VS). Now clicking on the insert Video icon, insert the 2 MPEG2 files that you created. Continue on, adding menus, titles, etc...

There is also the Recommended Procedures, which provide an detail method from start to finish on creating your DVDs..

Hope that helps..

Ron P.

[Mike-Mat]

So I did 4 different projects. I created chapter in the individual projects. When I add them together I loose the chapers and have to re-create them (Add Chapters).

Is that the way it's supposed to be?

It wont use the chapters I already set in the projects?

Mike

[garana]

Thanks Ron..... I wasn't sure if it could be combined as 2 videos on 1 dvd, will try your procedure.

BTW if not for the recommended procedure I would have still been struggling to create my 1st dvd, I have printed out the recommended procd and refer to it everytime to make sure I got it right.

[Ron P.]

Garana

Yes you can, so long as the total size doesn't exceed 4.3 gig for a Single Layer DVD. If it does then we have to think about "Fit to Disc", or using a program called "DVD Shrink", in order to compress it enough to fit....

Is that the way it's supposed to be?

No it's not. VS10 + is suppose to maintain the chapters that you set in your projects. When you add the projects together in one project how are you doing this? Are you adding them to one of your 4 existing projects or starting a new project then importing each into it?

You might try this, Start a new project, then add a project to it. Check to see if the chapter marks are still there. If so add the second one, and check again, etc... If you do get all 4 projects together with the chapter marks intact, then save this project under a new name, ie; Video combined. Then try to render a DVD-Compliant MPEG2.

I'll pull up my TBYB version, (since it's going to be another 2 wks before I get my boxed version) and see what I can find. But if it doesn't keep the chapters then it certainly looks like a bug, that should be addressed...

Thanks

Ron P.