2 versions of same video on one disk?

Videot wrote on 8/23/2004, 6:29 AM
I'm considering what would be involved in creating a DVD which had both a short & a longer version of the same video. This could easily be done if I rendered each into seperate MPEG2 files. Could this be done having the second shorted version share the same MPEG2 files that I had created for the longer version.

If this is possible could the idea be taken even further & have available scene selection menus for both version & if so what way should I render the files before taking them into DVDA?

If each chapter were rendered as seperate files before doing this job would the versions be able to automatically play & go from chapter to chapter seamlessly?

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johnmeyer wrote on 8/23/2004, 9:20 AM
DVDA version 2.0 has a neat feature that lets you put the same MPEG-2/AC3 file combination into your project multiple times, but the actual data only gets included once. If much of your two versions of the movie are the same, you could make one MPEG-2/AC-3 file that has both versions, drop this into the project twice, and then set the In/Out points for each instance to different locations. Whether this idea is useful or not depends entirely on how similar the two versions are, and whether they share lots of identical footage.