Adding Video issue

kipphut wrote on 10/7/2005, 6:02 PM
This is what I found and it didn't help me. In the read me it says to click on on add media tool in the timeline window. http://www.bigtimeprofit.com/pic.jpg

Ass you see the screenshot I left I can't even click on it. Please let me know what else I can do.

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Subject: adding more than one video file
Posted by: Phil M
Date: 6/1/2005 12:17:32 PM

I have two .mpg files that I want to play back to back. (One movie split in two files) How do I add two movie files in one menu item so that they play as one movie. So far I have been able to add only one at a time.

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Subject: RE: adding more than one video file
Reply by: jetdv
Date: 6/1/2005 12:54:46 PM

Add the first movie to the menu. Add the second movie to the PROJECT (left of the menu design screen). Now do an end-action from the first movie to the second movie.

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johnmeyer wrote on 10/7/2005, 6:56 PM
There is a really simple way to do this, and it has the side benefit that the two movies will not only play as one, but there should be no "gap" between them.

1. Right-click on the main, center screen and choose "Insert Music Compilation." That's right, music compilation. Why Sony chose this name, I'll never know. It is far more useful for video than it is for music.

2. In the left-hand pane, double-click on the "Music Compilation 1" item that you just added.

3. In the lower right corner of the screen, you should have three tabs: Timeline, Playlists, and Compilation. Click on the Compilation tab.

4. Drop your two MPEG files into this compilation, in the order you want them to play.

5. Click on each MPEG file, and for each one, look at the "Music Compilation Properties (upper right of the screen) and look for the "Slide" tab (another strange name). Make sure the "Slide Media" has both Video and Audio specified. If there is no Audio file, then you'll need to manually assign the audio file for that video (this is the same issue as elsewhere in DVDA, where if you have named the audio and video the same, DVDA will automatically find the audio, but if you haven't named them exactly the same, you'll have to do this step manually).

That's it. Sounds more complicated when I spell it out step-by-step. In actual practice, it should take less than 30 seconds to do everything above. I think you will be very happy with the results.

I highly recommend doing ALL multi-MPEG videos this way. You will get a chapter stop at the beginning of each MPEG file. The ONLY downside to this approach is that you cannot add additional chapter points within each MPEG file. Other than that, the navigation on DVD players is MUCH better because DVDA creates a single titleset. If you create the DVD by just putting multiple MPEG files into a normal compilation, you get one titleset for each MPEG. I don't think any DVD player will let you fast forward or fast reverse across titleset boundaries, and many of them won't even let you use the chapter buttons to go forward (almost none will let you go back through titlesets using the chapter buttons). The only navigation possible is through the menu system. By contrast, with this approach, you can fast forward, fast reverse, and use chapter forward and reverse.

If I was forty years younger, I would say, "it rocks." But I'm not, so I'll just say it is really groovy.

Steve Mann wrote on 10/8/2005, 11:06 PM
"That's right, music compilation. Why Sony chose this name, I'll never know. It is far more useful for video than it is for music."

I suspect that the boys in Madison were thinking Super Audio CD while forgetting that media files are media files. Either that or they were trying to stick to some obscure part of the DVD spec. (As if any of it were clear).

Steve Mann
onion99 wrote on 10/27/2005, 7:07 AM
johnmeyer,

groovy X 2!

onion99