DVD creation Chapter Function Question

mww1962 · Post by **mww1962** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:11 pm

Hello All:

I am currently on the steep learning curve trying out the VS10+ as an alternative to the bundled PE that came with my hardware. I sucessfully burned my first DVD last night and have a question regarding the Chapters in the menu.

While working on the same video in PE I could set a DVD marker (chapter) and define if the movie stopped at the end or returned to the main menu or continued playing.

My VS project did not seem to allow me to define what happened at the chapter point. In my case I have a video which contains a 40 minute movie and about 15 minutes of trailers. I would like the two portion to play as seperate entities. The menu I created works fine, but the video continues on to the trailers after the movie.
I "split" the clip at the point of the trailers thinking this would define the two, but all that seems to have done is create the two clips, and also there is a bit of a transition glitch between the two while it is playing.

On a side note, I edited this movie using Sony Soundforge to clean up the audio (my hobby so far is audio mastering work) and saved the file as a DV AVI to match the source. An option on the save properties hade "AVI V.2.0" checked.

PE would not render the file no matter what I tried...hung at 2.11%. Not usre if the file type is the reason as it editied just fine. VS had no problems at all I will wait until the trial has run out on VS before trying to diagnose what is going on with that but so far VS handled the creation part easily.

Cheers, Mike.

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:45 pm

Hi Mike,

I'm afraid that with VS10 + you can only set what action occurs at the end of a clip. http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 1178#71178

In VS you need 2 seperate video clips, to have one return to the menu upon completion.

Your audio is not Digital Video so therefore should not be saved or rendered as a video. You need to determine what your video file properties are, looking at the audio properties. Then save/render your audio file to match those properties.

WAV format works best in VS, so try rendering your audio to WAV file(s). Then bring that in to VS.

mww1962 · Post by **mww1962** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:45 pm

vidoman wrote:Hi Mike,

I'm afraid that with VS10 + you can only set what action occurs at the end of a clip. http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 1178#71178

In VS you need 2 seperate video clips, to have one return to the menu upon completion.

Now if I use the "Split" function will this effectively accomplish this?

vidoman wrote:Your audio is not Digital Video so therefore should not be saved or rendered as a video. You need to determine what your video file properties are, looking at the audio properties. Then save/render your audio file to match those properties.

The audio in the AVI is embedded. I can open the AVI as is in Soundforge, edit the audio portion and then save it. Any properties I could find did not specify the version (Type?) AVI of the original, so it was trial and error. Time pernitting I will try unchecking that compatability box and see what happens.....so much fun...so little time! Sample rate and such of the audio portion were the same in all cases so no conversion took place...I just think that Soundforge has to reapck the stuff back into the AVI container when you save your changes.

vidoman wrote:WAV format works best in VS, so try rendering your audio to WAV file(s). Then bring that in to VS.