Chapters are not continuing one after another!???

[safendoulis]

I captured video from my DV camcorder and used autodetect to break into 52 chapters. I used the wizard to create a menu, with a button for each. The resulting DVD stops after each chapter and goes back to the menu. How do I get it to run from one chapter onto the next?

Stefan

[thecoalman]

Do you have 52 clips? If so right click each one and set it to play next title. I'm working with 1.3 here so if yoiu have 2 there may be a faster way but I can't find one for 1.3.

[safendoulis]

DWS2 Doesn't have that option. Anyone know what happens in DWS2? I see it created 52 AVI files. Usually I capture my DV elsewhere and use one large file so this is the first time I am facing this DWS1 or 2. Please help anyone?

[thecoalman]

DWS2 Doesn't have that option. Anyone know what happens in DWS2? I see it created 52 AVI files. Usually I capture my DV elsewhere and use one large file so this is the first time I am facing this DWS1 or 2. Please help anyone?

It has it... if not by right clicking on each AVI thumbnail then it's somewhere else but it's there.

[safendoulis]

It has it... if not by right clicking on each AVI thumbnail then it's somewhere else but it's there.

Can somebody tell me where please?

[GeorgeW]

They changed the way it works in DWS2 (from DWS 1.x).

You use the "Playlist" feature for your menu buttons. Select a button, click the PLAYLIST radio button on the left, and then insert your titles -- there's also a "Play All" in there (one of the icons above the playlist area).

[safendoulis]

They changed the way it works in DWS2 (from DWS 1.x).

You use the "Playlist" feature for your menu buttons. Select a button, click the PLAYLIST radio button on the left, and then insert your titles -- there's also a "Play All" in there (one of the icons above the playlist area).

George. (Forgive my playing around with the emotions )

I found that setting thanks. I also see that the root menu play button plays all the titles in sequence, however the buttons (which I used the wizard to generate) only play the 1 title. That is hopeless really but never mind.

Here's what bothers me now....

The titles which were cut during capture by using "detect scenes" do not smoothly transition from one to another . Since there are 52 of them this makes painful viewing.

I tried to capture again, this time all in one chunk but something broke the AVI into 4GB chunks . It seems Windows can't cope with that file size i.e. DWS2, VS8 and Windows Explorer crash if I try to open them .

What am I missing here? I've been using DWS for years now, quite happilly. All of a sudden its hard to do the very thing this software made it easy to do. Previously I have always used a MICROMV camera which forces me to capture using Sony's crappy software and generate a single file (true DWS2 supports MICROMV now, but poorly). I always have used a DVD quality MPEG format. This time I used a stock standard DV camera and captured directly into DWS2.

Some pointers will be much appreciated.

Stefan

[thecoalman]

I tried to capture again, this time all in one chunk but something broke the AVI into 4GB chunks . It seems Windows can't cope with that file size i.e. DWS2, VS8 and Windows Explorer crash if I try to open them .

Go to My Computer and right click on your capture hard drive, on the general tab see what file system it is. If it's listed as FAT there's a 4 GB limit and you need to convert it to NTFS. In XP you can just right click on the drive and select format to convert it to NTFS.

Be aware this can possibly make the drive unusable and require a complete reformat and reinstall of windows but it's unlikely. I'd reccomend backing up whatever files you want before reformatting.

If it is already NTFS look in the capture settings for DVDWS and make sure it's not set to split the files by size.


There's detailed information on MS's site about converting to NTFS for other OS's and XP.

[safendoulis]

I do have NTFS and couldn't find any setting in capture that breaks AVI files at 4GB. I ended up using VS8 instead. I added all the 52 AVI files as a single timeline, editted, then exported as DVD PAL (MPEG2 file). I used that in my DWS2 project and got the results I am used to. It bothers me that I don't know what happened here. I am not sure I'll want to import using DWS2 again - though this is the most basic of functionality and it hould just work.

[MikeGunter]

I captured video from my DV camcorder and used autodetect to break into 52 chapters. I used the wizard to create a menu, with a button for each. The resulting DVD stops after each chapter and goes back to the menu. How do I get it to run from one chapter onto the next?

Stefan

Hi,

Try this.



Go to the Menu and select Playlist.

Make a button.

Either all all (3) or just select the chapters and add to the list (4).

Indicate in the DVD menu that the button is *Play all*

Mike

[safendoulis]

Yeah, I saw the playlist feature on menu buttons. I have moved past that already (please see my earlier post). The other part of the problem was that since the capture w/auto scene detection split my 30min sequence into 52 AVI files, there was a pause in between each title. This made watching painful. I generated the original menu using the wizard (as I said earlier) and found that only one title was played at a time. I ended up scrapping the project, importing the 52 AVI files into VS8 and editting them togther to make 1 title/file. I then imported that into a new project in DWS2 and everything worked as expected. Unless anyone can speculate how all these annoying things happened, I consider this topic closed but unresolved. I appreciate the guidence on the playlist functionality just the same. I need to do another project using my DV camera soon so I'll get a chance to test this out again anyway.

[Devil]

Well, you could put your project in as a single file and tell WS2 to automatically add chapters at each scene change: you'll still have your 52 chapters and no pauses between them,

[lalkana]

I think capturing with scene detection is what is splitting your file. I have never captured with WS, but this is how it works in Video Studio. If you want one file, I believe you have to capture without scene detection and then set up the chapters.

[lalkana]

I think capturing with scene detection is what is splitting your file. I have never captured with WS, but this is how it works in Video Studio. If you want one file, I believe you have to capture without scene detection and then set up the chapters.

[safendoulis]

Well what are people's recommendations? Like I said earlier, I have always been forced to capture outside of DWS (1 or 2) and import a single file (usually its an MPEG2 format). I tend to have already editted out the parts I don't want and more or less have an idea where I want the chapters to go. This particular time I tried to capture directly into DWS2 and it seems that scene detection creates separate files (how else would it do it really). The disappointing thing is that those files cannot be played back in a fluid sequence, which is what I wanted. I am repeating myself again, but when I tried to capture again *without* auto scene detection DWS2 split the AVI files at 4Gb and I am NOT using FAT32 (I have on NTFS). This effectively gave me the same headache as 52 splits (becoming 52 titles) only this time the 4Gb files were so large that DWS2 and even Windows Explorer crashed when I tried to access them. Are people seriously using DWS2 for capture, or just DVD production? I would have thought capturing 30 mins of DV into DWS2 was fairly straight forward. While I am happy I have another route (VS8 for DV or MovieShaker for MICROMV) it bugs me that I don't understand what is possible in DWS2 vs. what is impractical vs. what is just plain plagued with bugs. Anyone want to speculate/educate? Your considered responses are appreciated greatly.

Stefan