Compilation and slight freeze between chapters

jarkade wrote on 7/2/2008, 6:44 AM
Strung a series of clips together as a compilation, optimized with progressive = 'yes' and burned DVD. When I play back (dvd player, computer, etc) there is a slight freeze on the last frame of a clip/chapter before playing next one.... minor but noticeable (at least to me, a perfectionist at heart). Is there another setting I am missing that will provide a "clean" transition from one clip/chapter to the next? Original clips imported to the compilation were AVIs captured via Sony Vegas Pro. Using DVD Architect Pro 4.5

Thanks in advance (as I know someone will come through on this for me). :-)

Comments

bStro wrote on 7/2/2008, 7:04 AM
If you have AVIs now, I'd recommend that you just line them up on a Vegas timeline and render this out to a single MPEG2 (using one of the DVD Architect video stream templates). Add markers where you want chapter points and be sure to check "Save project markers in media file," and DVD Architect will pick those up.

Whether you let DVD Architect do it or you do it manually in Vegas, those AVIs have to be encoded to MPEG2 -- so you may as well do it in Vegas and have one complete file.

Rob
jarkade wrote on 7/2/2008, 7:10 AM
yeah... but I am looking to streamline a process of dumping a large number of tapes to DVD for archival / librarian purposes and the added step of a Vegas render (not to mention adding chapter points) kinda defeats the streamlined approach, if you know what I mean... the freeze apparently only bothers me, as others have reviewed the result and do not seam annoyed by the delay. The HELP documentation mentions the freeze and includes the opinion to optimize with progressive = 'y' but it still hesitates a bit. Any further help would be appreciated.
MPM wrote on 7/2/2008, 9:31 AM
Well, if you cap to avi, & you want to archive as mpg2 on DVD, you're going to go thru encoding all of your video. Whether you do it in Vegas or DVDA doesn't matter, except you'll get more control in Vegas, where it's easier to do things like making sure your field order is correct etc. As far as chapt markers go, add them in Vegas whenever you insert a new clip, & carry them over to DVDA when you import the video as Rob suggests.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 7/2/2008, 11:26 AM
> The HELP documentation mentions the freeze and includes the opinion to optimize with progressive = 'y' but it still hesitates a bit. Any further help would be appreciated.

The hesitation is being mechanically added by your DVD player. It is physically moving the laser play head from the end of the file it just finished to the table of contents on the disc, back to the beginning of the next file which is somewhere else on the disc. It is physically impossible for this to be as smooth as playing a continuous file because it a minimum, it requires two head moves even if the next file is physically right after the first.

There is no way to avoid this delay other than rendering a single file. Like others have said, since AVI files cannot be played on DVD everything is being rendered to MPEG-2 anyway. It is just as easy to drop the files on a Vegas timeline as it is to drop them into a compilation. IMHO, no less streamlined to get the desired playback behavior.

~jr
nolonemo wrote on 7/2/2008, 12:13 PM
If you drag clips into Vegas in a batch, I suspect there is a script somewhere that will add markers to the boundaries between clips.
jarkade wrote on 7/2/2008, 1:00 PM
Thanks for all the replies, advice and comments. It was most helpful (at least to gather a consensus).

I am not 100% sure on the DVD player being the source of the issue, with head movement and such, as the result of the DVDA render is one title set and therefore one contiguous VOB file, which seems indicative of a lack of need to refer back to an index for the next chapter. Since I am certainly no expert, the advice given regarding this may be true, just my thoughts on DVD construction.

As for a script to auto insert markers between events (which would make a Vegas render more appealing, at least to me) I found one, so the Vegas approach will likely be the chosen one for me.

Thanks again for all the feedback!