Transitional effects

hagadorn · Post by **hagadorn** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:54 pm

I haven't used the effects feature yet but I'm wondering how it works when you divide the mpg video into chapters? In other words, if you watch the video from beginning to end, you see the transitions in between the videos, but if you use the chapter menu and select video, I guess you see the transition at the beginning of the chapter? Does it look odd to have that effect feature at the beginning of a chapter selection?

hagadorn · Post by **hagadorn** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:57 pm

I just did a "test" video and I don't like the fact that you can see the previous chapter in the transition!

hagadorn · Post by **hagadorn** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:15 am

Does anyone have any input on this? Is there any way to avoid seeing the transition at the beginning of a chaper selection if you've put them in the video file?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:35 am

When you inserted the chapters, I assume you did so automatically and selected insert by scene...? I have almost never selected chapters by scene, and when I have, worry about having 10 second chapters, because a particular scene only takes that long, persuaded me to insert chapters manually. And so so means that you could manually insert chapter markers couple of seconds into the beginning of a scene, thus avoiding the transitions.

But generally, I use automatic insert but select chapters based on a regular time e.g. every 3 minutes or 5 minutes or whatever. And perhaps it has just been luck, but I have never had a chapter coincide with a transition.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:57 am

Ken Berry wrote:....... I use automatic insert but select chapters based on a regular time e.g. every 3 minutes or 5 minutes or whatever. And perhaps it has just been luck, but I have never had a chapter coincide with a transition.

I do the same as Ken, if you did have a chapter coincide with a transition it is a perfectly easy situation to rectify. Simply delete that chapter. You can manually add another chapter and it will take its place chronologically amongst the others that were created automatically.

hagadorn · Post by **hagadorn** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:39 am

Thank you for responding (I can always count on you two for help!)

I insert my chapters manually but I didn't know that you could take ANYTHING out of the video file when you create chapters because I thought you were just splitting up the video into parts. I thought you could only indicate the START of a chapter, and the end is automatically the beginning of the next chapter, but if I understand you correctly, I could make a chapter out of every transition and then just delete them?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:53 am

I am now not quite sure which chapter markers you are talking about. The ones you insert manually during the editing phase? They will apparently only work if you insert the whole project file in the burning moduel. And in any case, they are inserted manually, and could be inserted just after each transition ends.

But if you are talking about chapters inserted during the menu creation stage in the burning module, then yes. It can be done automatically based on chapters or automatically based on time. But it can also be done wholly manually. Or a combination of automatic and manual if you want to make some manual adjustment to automatic chapter placings you don't like or a new chapter where an automatic placement was not made...

hagadorn · Post by **hagadorn** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:49 am

I don't insert chapter markers during editing - what is the purpose? I am talking about adding chapters in menu creation. After creating a single video file that includes titles, transitions, etc., I go to Share/Create Disc and open the file. Then I split it up into menu chapters with Add/Edit Chapter. Every time I click Add Chapter, it marks the start of the chapter, but I never knew how to mark the end, except now I understand that there is no end because the video will just continue to play to the next chapter. So all I have to do it is mark the new chapter AFTER each transition! Correct?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:17 am

The whole point is that you can mark them wherever you like!! Look, I open VS10+'s burning module. I insert my mpeg-2 file. I have Create Menu checked, and then click on the Add/Edit Chapters button. A new screen appears with my video showing the first frame in the new preview screen. The only option which is not greyed out at that stage is the Auto Add Chapters button. If I click on that, I have the choice to add at a fixed interval, or it will auto detect scenes. If I choose the latter, it will take quite some time and detect all sorts of scenes I don't want to have as chapters. But you can use the Remove Chapter button to get rid of those you don't want. That could take a long time too.

OR you can move the jog slider below the preview screen just a fraction, and now the Add Chapter button is no longer greyed out. You can then continue to drag the slider to any spot in your video and click that button and a chapter is added. You can review it and use the Remove Chapter button if it is not quite right.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:01 pm

Please view this part of the tutorial 'From Camcorder to DVD with VideoStudio"

Chapters

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:31 pm

hagadorn wrote:So all I have to do it is mark the new chapter AFTER each transition! Correct?

Not to belittle Steve's and Ken's excellent advise, but in a nutshell, yes.

hagadorn · Post by **hagadorn** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:18 pm

Thank you all.