VideoStudio 9 chapters and indices not working

Charlie Howard · Post by **Charlie Howard** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:36 pm

The chapters and direct positioning in a 2:03 hour DVD created with VideoStudio 9 did not work. The video plays fine, but attempts to skip around do not, and all 24 chapter buttons restart the video at frame 0.

The source material is 2 hrs, 3 minutes of AVI type-1 (three captured AVI files). The final video has a few simple transitions, one text block at the beginning, and no added sound track. It was created with the "fit and burn" option.

It rendered successfully (in 6 1/2 hours on an Athlon 1400), creating both a VIDEO_TS and an ISO image, which I then burned to a DVD. Both show the same incorrect behavior.

Shorter videos created by VS9 on this computer have worked flawlessly.

Can anyone suggest solutions to this? Thanks.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:16 pm

Others have been reporting problems with the fit-o-disk function, though I have to confess I haven't used it yet. Do you have the patience to perhaps reduce the bit rate of your file manually (and perhaps alter the audio settings?) so that it will fit on a single dayer disc? That way at least you could see whether or not the chapters baby has not been thrown out with the fit-to-disk bathwater...

Charlie Howard · Post by **Charlie Howard** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:23 pm

Thanks, Ken; I'll try doing that and report the results tomorrow.

Charlie Howard · Post by **Charlie Howard** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:15 am

Setting the compression manually solved the problem, but it took two tries: the first compression level resulted in a video that was too close to the 4 GB limit of the Windows file system, and the last 5 minutes of the video were lost. Setting a lower compression, resulting in a 3.5 GB video, worked. The lower image quality is apparent.

There's probably a way around that 4 GB ceiling, but I don't know what it is. At any rate, everything's working now. Thank you, Ken.