How come every time one splits a file, workshop assumes that the split is a new chapter? Let’s say you have 4 AVI files, ten minutes each. You want to piece together 4 five second clips from each of the 4 files and use them as a First Play preview before the Title Screen. Well now you have 4 new small chapters and you can only use one as the preview. Time Consuming Work Around – Open a new project and burn to hard drive the 4 small pieces as if it is a short movie. Next, extract out the 4 small MPG files that workshop creates when you burn. Join them together however you want (I use a program called Mpeg Joiner) to make 1 mpg file (or Chapter). Now import that file into the original project and you have the 4 small preview scenes as one First Play scene with no audio. Here’s the problem: Even though that file plays just fine in any player (WMP, Win DVD, etc.) Workshop speeds the file up exponentially as it plays, so a 20 second video clip is now a 7 second clip. But interesting enough, it only does this while in the production mode. If you burn it, the video portion plays just fine (all 20 seconds)! Although there is a new problem now…. you must do something with the audio of your new 4 piece file because there isn’t any. So, you tell Workshop to cycle a 6 second WAV file while the preview scene is playing. Now even after the burn the video works fine (but not in pre burn mode), the audio only plays for 10 seconds then stops. So in post burn you have a 20 second video file with 10 seconds of audio! What’s up with this program? Am I missing something? OK, so my questions are:
1. Why does every clip have to be a new chapter? If I want to use a portion of AVI #1 and a portion of AVI #4, why does this have to be 2 chapters or scenes? Why can’t I join them to be one scene? Do other DVD authoring programs allow this?
2. Why does the program not like my workaround?
3. Is there no way to add credits screens to your movie?
Any help would be much appreciated.
DVD Workshop 2.231 with updates
Capturing from Panasonic PV GS-400 using DVD type-2
Firewire Port
Windows XP Pro SP2
Bugs and/or poor design – or is it just me?
Authoring vs. Editing
DVD WS is an Authoring Application that happens to have a few basic editing features. To do what you want for your intro, you could use an editing package to slice up your 4 clips, and merge into one.
To add some basic credits, can you create some .jpg images wit hthe credits (or whatever), then create a slideshow of those credit images?
To add some basic credits, can you create some .jpg images wit hthe credits (or whatever), then create a slideshow of those credit images?
Last edited by GeorgeW on Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.
George
Like George said, you need a video editor, such as Video Studio. I use Video Studio and DVD workshop together. (I actually use a different editor for MPEG files... Video Studio has some problems with MPEGs, which are not supposed to be edited.)
This does get very confusing because of the overlap between applications. DVD Workshop also includes MPEG and AC3 encoders, and burning capability. Not all DVD authoring programs have these "extras".
Editing is all the stuff that the director and editor do after the film is shot, to get the movie ready for the theater. (Cutting & splicing, special effects, titles, audio mixing & overdubbing, etc.)
DVD authoring is done after the movie is made. (Menus, multiple soundtracks, subtitles, etc.)
I don't really understand your audio problems... but each title should have one or more audio tracks that have the same length as the video. So if your main movie is 90 minutes, you could have a 90 minute English track, and a 90 minute Spanish track. Like the video, the soundtack(s) should already be edited and read to 'pop-into" Workshop. The soundtrack will usually be already-multiplexed with the video, and in that case you don't have to add it seperately. Sometimes I'll use a 3rd party audio editor to "enhance" or censor the audio, etc.
This does get very confusing because of the overlap between applications. DVD Workshop also includes MPEG and AC3 encoders, and burning capability. Not all DVD authoring programs have these "extras".
Editing is all the stuff that the director and editor do after the film is shot, to get the movie ready for the theater. (Cutting & splicing, special effects, titles, audio mixing & overdubbing, etc.)
DVD authoring is done after the movie is made. (Menus, multiple soundtracks, subtitles, etc.)
I don't really understand your audio problems... but each title should have one or more audio tracks that have the same length as the video. So if your main movie is 90 minutes, you could have a 90 minute English track, and a 90 minute Spanish track. Like the video, the soundtack(s) should already be edited and read to 'pop-into" Workshop. The soundtrack will usually be already-multiplexed with the video, and in that case you don't have to add it seperately. Sometimes I'll use a 3rd party audio editor to "enhance" or censor the audio, etc.
As you have a fairly high-end camera, I would suggest you will get the best results and most flexibility by using a fairly high-end editing proggy. I recommend MediaStudio Pro, also by Ulead.
However, and I think this is important for you to know, for the best results, you should import the video into your computer as a DV AVI and NOT MPEG, whether you use WS or MSP. All editing should be done in the AVI format and, only at the end should you encode to MPEG-2. The encoder in WS2 is excellent for this, but the one in MSP 7.2 is better still. The reasons for this are twofold:
1. If importing directly into an mpg file, transcoding has to to be done in real time. As good quality encoding often takes more than real time (unless you have a REALLY fast 2 or 4 CPU machine), a compromise on quality must be made. This often also restricts audio types, as well.
2. If you edit in MPEG-2 (which IS possible, but not recommended in MSP) by adding titles, transitions, filters, moving paths etc., your original footage may be partially or wholly re-rendered. This will definitely produce a distinct loss of visual quality, which does not happen when re-rendering in DV AVI.
Believe me, this is the way to go.
However, and I think this is important for you to know, for the best results, you should import the video into your computer as a DV AVI and NOT MPEG, whether you use WS or MSP. All editing should be done in the AVI format and, only at the end should you encode to MPEG-2. The encoder in WS2 is excellent for this, but the one in MSP 7.2 is better still. The reasons for this are twofold:
1. If importing directly into an mpg file, transcoding has to to be done in real time. As good quality encoding often takes more than real time (unless you have a REALLY fast 2 or 4 CPU machine), a compromise on quality must be made. This often also restricts audio types, as well.
2. If you edit in MPEG-2 (which IS possible, but not recommended in MSP) by adding titles, transitions, filters, moving paths etc., your original footage may be partially or wholly re-rendered. This will definitely produce a distinct loss of visual quality, which does not happen when re-rendering in DV AVI.
Believe me, this is the way to go.
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