Certainly better than my first attempts - thanks for the quick response.

However, it would appear that I am actually asking DVDA to do too much - to get the the whole match to be playable in its entirity, while having each clip as a chapter/scene, looks to be job for Vegas and markers. Once that is achieved then DVDA can do the rest quite nicely.

However, I am better informed now - thanks again

MM

OK, you're creating ~100 clips already, Millfield, and you want to create a DVD with the least fuss... At a minimum, whatever format &/or app you use, you're going to have to import either chapters or the clips themselves.

For chapters: however you're creating the initial clips, you're setting in/out points (times) that would work for chapters. If you're using Vegas, with all the clips strung along the timeline, you could set a marker at each clip that DVDA would import as a chapter -- just render the timeline to the DVDA mpg2 template saving markers for DVDA. There's a script I believe at VAAST that inserts markers at every clip if that would help. If you're using something other than Vegas, if you can get a list of times, can use that to set chapters manually in DVDA -- surprisingly it's not that bad of a job.

For Clips: String them along the timeline in DVDA as a comp -- should be able to import several clips at once, though you'll have to double check the order afterwards. This should do one long title with a chapter at each clip, but you have to watch the limit of 99 I think... might have to do more than one comp. And I'd think you'd want to import muxed files to keep the audio end of things manageable.

Either way, once you've got a longer title with chapters, DVDA will create chapter (scene) menus for you automatically -- you just specify how many links (buttons) per page. Again you might have to split it up because of limits on how many chapters -- I *think* 99, but it says in the help &/or manual.

FWIW cheaper software often gives more automation at the price of flexibility. You might find something that automates this process a little more, might make it easier, so I'd also suggest taking a quick look online at alternatives.

Cheers for the tips - I'll experiment with both ideas tonight. There will no doubt be a number of clips I can ditch to keep me under the 99 barrier (an unusual number when dealing with digital information but hey ho).

I'm beginning to think of DVDA/Vegas as similar to Desktop Publishing/Word Processing - the first of each pair is about layout with the 2nd dealing with the content.