Loading Existing Projects with Updated Video Files

Jethro · Post by **Jethro** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:12 pm

Hi,
I have looked through the messages in the forum and can't find any threads that discuss this problem. I must be the only person that is creating DVD's this way. Either that or I'm just really stupid.

The DVD's that I am creating come from Magix Movie Edit Pro (I hope that is not a dirty word, but this is the software I like to use to edit my home video). I save my movies as one long continuous DV-AVI file. I load this file into DVD Workshop and set my bookmarks and design my menu's. I am positively thrilled with the results. Here's the problem:

The video file that I load into DVD Workshop remains a work in progress for several months. It gets longer every few weeks and I want to reload the DVD Workshop project and add new bookmarks as needed and update the menus. However, when the DV-AVI file gets longer, DVD workshop does not seem to recognize this. It just truncates the video to its original length when the project was first saved. I have to delete the source video from the project file and then reload it. I loose ALL of my existing bookmarks as a result. This greatly increases the amount of time I have to spend each time I want to update my video and burn it for viewing. By the time that video gets to be an hour long or more, the time I spend re-inserting bookmarks becomes unacceptable.

There must be a way to tell DVD Workshop that the existing source video has grown and it needs to re-import it without killing existing bookmarks. Please tell me there is a way...

Thank you in advance to anyone that responds,
Mark Roberts,
Toronto, Canada

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:18 pm

Yeah... I've had the same problem. Maybe somebody has a solution, but I don't.

I just write-down the chapter-times and start-over.

If my menu is already created, I'll re-name the video file and bring it into the existing project with the new filename. That way, I don't have to re-create the menu. But, I still have to reassign the chapters and re-link all of the menu buttons.

Generally, I don't import the video into Workshop 'till the movie/program is completely done, but sometimes I'll discover something that needs to get fixed.

Jethro · Post by **Jethro** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:58 am

Hi DVDDoug:

I think this is a terrible oversite on the part of U-Lead. You and I cannot possibly be the only people on earth who alter or extend a source video file that is part of a project...

Thanks,
Mark