smooth movie in spite of chapters?

[kiatty]

Hello all,

When i have burned movies onto dvd, and created sections or chapters to jump to, the movie would not play smoothly, but would stop at the end of one segment and then start again two seconds later at the next division.

However, I'm wondering if there is a way to create a dvd movie with several chapter sections, but which plays smoothly all the way through without stopping for a few seconds at each succeeding chapter?

I hate to ask so many "newbie" questions, but I don't want to sacrifice expensive dvd blanks trying to get it right.

I'm aware that to do that, you don't trim the movie into several sections, but you insert something else into the editing timeline, but I don't know what yet.

Thanks.

[THoff]

It should already do that. What happens when you play a commercial DVD with multiple chapters -- do they hesistate as well?

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

When you go to Share Create Disc you Add Video.
Each video you add creates a main menu thumbnail, in addition you have the choice to create further chapters within your main menu’s.

When you make main menu’s only, I find the playback tends to pause for a second before playing the next movie.
If you create chapters then the playback should smooth and continuous throughout the chapters.

Are you using the Add Video option or Add Video Studio Project option.

Hope this helps

[GeorgeW]

Hi,

As Trevor mentioned, if your videos are separate files (called Titles), there can be a slight pause between Titles during playback.

If your video is one long Title broken into 5 segments (i.e. Chapters within the one long Title), then playback should be smooth between chapters.

[TubaDad]

One thing that I did not see mentioned. You said you did not want to burn a lot of expensive DVDs to solve the problem. I would recommend not burning and just creating the folders necessary (video_tx, audio_ts) and play them from your DVD software. I always do this before burning a disc to save on the number of coasters I create. I have also had much better luck burning DVDs with Nero than with the burner built into UVS, but that is another topic.

Hopefully that will help you with trial burns not wasting DVDs. Of course that is assuming that you are not wanting to test on a set top DVD player. Then I have tried using DVD_RWs, but those are very selective on what DVD player you are using, so you have to get that one right from the beginning to save money.

Hope that helps.