New User needs help with join function

stevenfstein · Post by **stevenfstein** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:24 pm

This is my first experience with trying to create a DVD. I imported a video from my camcorder and have broken it into clips myself or let the software do it. I have rearranged a couple of the clips but I cannot find a way to combine two clips into one. The result is when I go to the share function to create the video each clip is recognized as a chapter. The instruction book give the following instruction 'You may merge some of the detected scenes into a single clip. Simply select all the scenes that you want to join together then click Join. The plus sign (+) and a number indicates how many scenes are merged into that particular clip.

Either I don't understand the function or I'm not breaking the video into segments properly but I have searched everywhere and can't find the Join function. Any help greatly appreciated .

Regards and thanks..... Steve

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:17 pm

Please view:
From camcorder to DVD with VideoStudio

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:59 pm

Put verrrrry basically, joining separate clips together into one is the primary function of the Share > Create Video file command. If you intend to burn the new file to a DVD, then after you have edited them individually, select Share > Create Video File > DVD. Once that new file is created, you can then go to Share > Create Disc > DVD, add that new file (or files similarly produced), create your menu and burn.

But please also read Steve's more than helpful tutorial!

stevenfstein · Post by **stevenfstein** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:18 pm

Appreciate the help but let me explain what I'm trying to do. I shot a sequence at XMAS with my wife getting ready with the tree, then a later sequence of my dauthter at the concert, than another sequence a few days later of XMAS presents. I can break out the 3 clips and rearrange but I want to combine the 2 XMAS ones into one clip so that when I go into the share function and let the system pull the clips they don't get flagged as two chapters for the DVD menu. I'm still pouring through all the other great info.

Thanks.... Steve

njdowding · Post by **njdowding** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:35 pm

Steve you have complete control over the chapter points in the share section.

If you click add chapter points you can manually set the chapter points or use auto and then delete the one you dont want.

Nick

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:52 pm

I would still recommend following my suggestion. You need at some stage to create a DVD-compatible mpeg-2 or series of them, that you intend to burn to disc. Doing it my way with the two relevant files you mention, produces a single video which you then insert in the burning module and it shows up as a single title. (Note the term 'Title', which essentially means one entire video file. 'Chapter' is when you insert nominal jump points in a title down based on scene change or a set time interval in order to jump around a title when it is playing on your TV.) As njdowding has noted, you can manually set chapter points within a title once you get to the burning module, if you want them (which it appears you may not).

I suspect you may be missusing the term 'chapter' by thinking if you have three separate video files, and insert these into the burning module separately, then you will have three separate menu items for them. That is true, but they are 'titles' not 'chapters'. But if you join the two files together the way I suggest, you end up with one title, not two.

And apart from anything else, it is safer practice to join whatever clips you want together first in a DVD-compatible mpeg-2 by going to Share > Create Video File > DVD. Then insert that new 'title' in the burning module and subsequent divide it into chapters in the menu if you want to, or not if you don't want to...

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:10 am

Does this help explain

JLR · Post by **JLR** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:05 pm

I'm also a new user with Video Studio. I ran a movie I taped 20 years ago so I could edit out the commericals. I did that and now I have 7 clips.How do I put them back together again so I will have my movie? I will probably burn it to a DVD later but right now I want to put it back in my movie folder and delete the original. Will any of the effects help the picture quality? Thanks.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:42 pm

Read my posts above: put your 7 separate clips in the timeline, insert transitions between them if you wish, then go to Share > Create Video File > DVD. Once the process has ended (it will take some time), you can then burn the new file as described above. Make sure you also read the Recommended Procedures in the top sticky post on this Forum.

As for improving its quality, you have provided no information which would indicate what its present quality is, much less how it was captured exactly, using what device and in what format.

As a basic rule of thumb, however, you can never improve the basic quality of captured video except in perhaps cosmetic ways. As the old saying goes, you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear! If the captured video is not particularly good, then don't expect brilliant results.

The sort of cosmetic improvements I was referring to basically involve the use of filters to improve things like colour balance. But be warned that the Video Studio preview window is nothing more than that -- it is just meant to give you a general idea of how your project is looking. When playing with things like colour balance, it is easy to overdo it in the computer and the results will look awful when played on a TV. It is best to experiment either by 'burning' a DVD folder (Video_TS) of your project and playing that back on your computer using a software DVD player (like WinDVD or PowerDVD); or else burning to a rewritable RW disc and actually seeing how it looks on your TV.

JLR · Post by **JLR** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:17 am

Yes it it's all too easy when you KNOW what your doing and what your looking for. I thought it was going to be easier to edit tapes than watching and hitting the pause button so as not to have commericals. Guess I was wrong. This is the second day of working on this project and still haven't got a movie. I quit.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:40 am

Ahh that well known phrase "If at first you don't succeed - give up!"

Please view:
From Camcorder to DVD with Video Studio - Editing Phase.

Here you will find reference to the StoryBoard View

Just drag each of your clips into these placeholders.
Optional extra Step :- add transitions

For further help and assistance please check out our tutorials

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:29 pm

JLR wrote:Yes it it's all too easy when you KNOW what your doing and what your looking for. I thought it was going to be easier to edit tapes than watching and hitting the pause button so as not to have commericals. Guess I was wrong. This is the second day of working on this project and still haven't got a movie. I quit.

Can you imagine where'd we be if Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, or Henry Ford had that same attitude?

Post by **lancecarr** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:09 pm

Ummm...riding a horse in the dark by the light of a paraffin lamp?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:13 pm

Good one.

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:41 pm

JLR - you might like to read this :-

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New User needs help with join function

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