Thanks a lot scott. I'll give the BOV a try.

I currently have a 2 hour football game as the main timeline. Each player has approximately 25 - 30 possesion per game. I have a text file that contains a list of each players possesions and the time that they occured. At present I use these times to create clips in vegas that are 30 seconds long. I then render each players game so that they can sit down and watch their 25-30 clips (which takes around 10 - 15mins.)

There are 21 players per team and I add 7 players to each DVD. At present each week I am rendering 3 player stat DVD's, 1 game DVD and 1 match stat DVD. This take a lot of time and I am just replicateing the video across 5 DVD's. I was hoping I could some how add playlists of something similar so that the entire game is on one DVD and selected sections for each player can be accessed.

Does anybody no of any software that will allow me to easily carry out these tasks.

Sorry if this is confusing

Thanks.

You can do this in DVDA, but it's going to be a little awkward. You render your single game movie and bring it into the project (not a menu, you drop it into the project tree view) - navigate into it and set the in/out points for your first player clip. You bring the game into the project a second time, set in/out points for the second clip, repeat as needed. Then create a playlist that plays all of the individual movies.

DVDA is smart enough to only put the game on the DVD a single time. I'd probably also use the I-frame at chapter mark feature in Vegas 7.0 to place frame accurate chapter marks at the beginning and end of each clip to make things easy to find on the timeline for setting in/out points.

You can also do this in DVD Lab Pro in not quite as awkward a fashion using what they call a "Splice point" - you place your chapter marks on the timeline and then specify that a particular chapter is a splice point - when the DVD is playing and a splice point is encountered it behaves as if it was the end of the movie. You then assemble your playlist with the individual chapters you need. The big drawback is that you'd need to spend some additional money to aquire DLP and spend a little time learning it. I'd still probably use the I-frame at chapter marks feature in Vegas, but I'd also snag the script off of VASST that lets you export chapter marks as a text file for DLP - you can then easily import the marks into DLP.

--Scott

Thanks again for you help Scott.

I have downloaded the demo version of DVD lab pro 2. The splice points work really well. Is it possible in DVD Lab pro to add the same video to multiple timelines as in DVD architect?

I currently have 21 players with about 30 stats each. This equates to around 630 chapters. I no that the limit is 99 chapters in the timeline. If it were possible to add the same video to the DVD 21 times I could easily set up the chapter playlists.


Thanks again for all you help.

Yes, you can add the movie multiple times, but with DLP each instance of the movie takes up that much space on the DVD, so as long as it's short (which these may be), you'll probably be ok.