How short should the clips in the timeline be fragmented?

[zargouz]

I have been using VS since version 8. I am now using using VS 10+.

When I started using VS, one of the first problems I dealt with was that the resulting disk, either CD or DVD, would ground or screech at various points and some disks would just stop playing midway.

The solution--which I cannot remember if I invented it myself or if I read it somewhere--was to cut the clips in the time line into 50-second, at most, chunks after editing the whole project, but before converting the project into a video file.

So when editing a project, video clips that run into 5 minutes will be chopped into 5 chunks at the very least.

I don't really know if I am doing the right thing. but it works for me.

I also noticed that the smaller chucks I chop the clips into the smoother playback of the resulting video disk.

My questions are, first, am I doing the right thing?, second, if I am doing the right thing, what is the recommended length of each chunk should a clip be cut into?, and, third, is there a way that VS will automatically cut the clips into desired length?

[TDK1044]

The clip length in the timeline has nothing to do with your issue. Whether a clip is 5 seconds duration or 20 minutes duration prior to rendering is not relevant. What's being burnt to DVD is the resulting, rendered file which Video Studio sees as one clump of data. Your problem is either related to the file properties you're using, the Disks you're using or the DVD player you're playing the Disks back on.

[BrianCee]

"Am I doing the right thing" - my answer to that is usually "if it works for you and gets you the result you want then yes you are doing the right thing" - BUT - the question should perhaps be "is this the way others do it" and my answer to that would be NO - there should be no need to chop your video into small pieces - if I have a continuous scene which needs no editing then the clip will be as long as the scene - even if thats 20-30 minutes and I have no problems.

I do not know of any setting which automatically chops video into such small individual clips as you require. - I think as TDK says there is something not quite right on your PC

[heinz-oz]

I have captured a whole soccer game, via pass, through to DV-AVI, a whole 2 hours of it and put that on the time line of MSP, created an mpeg2 out of it and burned it to DVD without having to chop it into smaller pieces. I have never, ever, heard of anyone having to do that with any NLE program.

You must be doing something wrong or there is something peculiar about your setup.

[sjj1805]

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