Can Images and Movies Be On One DVD?

Julie · Post by **Julie** » Sun May 25, 2008 7:13 pm

Hello,

I have VS11. Can I put images and movies on one dvd? For instance, I have vacation movies and pictures. Can I put a couple of images on the dvd followed by the vacation movies and then more images? I tried this and the program kept closing with errors. This may be the problem but if not, then I need to figure out why I keep getting errors. I appreciate your help.

Thank you,

Julie

Post by **Ron P.** » Sun May 25, 2008 7:23 pm

Yes you can, I do it all the time..

Make sure that all your video clips are using the same field order (upper or lower). Images do not have their own field order, they are frame based, however when used in a project along with video clips, they will be converted in your created video file to part of that video, and then have the field order according to the project.

Julie · Post by **Julie** » Sun May 25, 2008 7:41 pm

Thank you for the quick response Vidoman. I'm so glad it can be done. Just one other silly question. What is the field order? I just looked in the manual and didn't find that phrase. Is there a link that may explain this to me? I appreciate your help.

Julie

Post by **Ron P.** » Sun May 25, 2008 7:53 pm

I'll provide a short simple explanation of field order and then a link to some more information on it.

Video is displayed on a television (not a computer) by fields scanning across the tube. Each frame of video is comprised of 2 separate fields, an upper and a lower. Depending on the codec (compression/decompression) used, is which field is scanned (shown) first. If this order is reversed the result is a jerky video with jagged edges.

DV (avi) is always Lower Field First, and most MPEG videos are Upper Field First. This refers to the source video being used in a project. So your Project Settings must match this field order.

To better understand Field Orders, and Frame Based, please read the following article:
Explanation of Field Orders

Julie · Post by **Julie** » Sun May 25, 2008 8:02 pm

Thank you so much! You have been a tremendous help!

Julie

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun May 25, 2008 9:57 pm

Just one note of clarification. I am not sure if my friend Vidoman made a simple type when saying that most mpegs were Lower Field First. In fact if you have a mini DVD video camera, a hard disk camera, a HDV high definition camera or an AVCHD camera, all your captured video will be in some form of mpeg, and in fact -- and this is important -- will all be Upper Field First. And this must be maintained throughout the project, editing, and burning.

Usually you can just accept Video Studio's own assessment of the video you capture and you should not change it. You can check within Video Studio by right clicking on a captured file, either in the library pane or in the timeline, and selecting Properties. That will give you all the details, including the field order used.

It is very important, as Vidoman said, to get the field order right. And you need to know about this since Video Studio applies default properties to projects and to burn properties as well, and sometimes these defaults use the opposite field order to what they need to be in a particular project. This can be changed in File > Preferences. And if, say, you have one of the sorts of cameras I mentioned above, and will be doing most of your editing from such a camera, you might want to consider changing your Preferences to use Upper Field First as the default, instead of Lower Field First which it normally defaults to. Or if you have a DV camera, then leave it at Lower Field First.

Post by **Ron P.** » Sun May 25, 2008 10:05 pm

Yes I did Ken, Thanks for catching that. I've corrected it now..