Can VS11 stitch together digital camera MPGs?

chipsales · Post by **chipsales** » Sun May 04, 2008 1:44 am

In direct to DVD mode, I love the way that VS11 can take a number of clips from the same event and stitch those together seamlessly into a single DVD chapter.

I'm trying to determine if there is a way that VS11 can do this with MPG files from say a Canon Powershot camera; take multiple files from the same event and automatically stitch those together and save those or burn them directly to DVD.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thx!

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun May 04, 2008 10:33 am

I am tempted to wonder if this is a trick question...

Of course it can -- that is what a video editing program does! Put all your videos in the same timeline, add transitions if you want, cut them if you want or do other editing, then go to Share > Create Video File and select DVD if that is the format you intend to burn to.

chipsales · Post by **chipsales** » Sun May 04, 2008 5:50 pm

I apologize for not being more clear about my question. I understand what a video editing program can do. What I was trying to learn was if anyone knew a trick to having VS11 do this automatically by importing those as opposed to doing it in DV - DVD wizard.

Then, I could take those videos, save them on my hard drive, and burn them as needed.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun May 04, 2008 10:38 pm

I was not talking about the Wizard. I have never used it, and given my stage of life in video editing, probably never will. I was talking about the main Editor module in Video Studio...

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Mon May 05, 2008 1:44 am

chipsales wrote:I apologize for not being more clear about my question. I understand what a video editing program can do. What I was trying to learn was if anyone knew a trick to having VS11 do this automatically by importing those as opposed to doing it in DV - DVD wizard.

Then, I could take those videos, save them on my hard drive, and burn them as needed.

So..not satisfied with the Wizard...you want VS to do it all by its self? That would certainly be a nice trick to beat that silly old Wizard!

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon May 05, 2008 1:54 am

Rather than using the DV to DVD Wizard use the other one the Movie Wizard
It is very similar where you can import a movie off your camcorder and apply a theme. At the end of the wizard you can choose to either burn to a DVD or open the video in VideoStudio editor for further editing.

If you are a bit wary of using the VideoStudio Editor from the outset then using the Movie Wizard is a good way of getting your video onto the VideoStudio Editor so that you can see how it has all been put together for you. You may then feel more confident about doing the whole thing yourself next time without using one of the wizards.