DVDA-2: Way to Prevent using unused parts of MPG?

gbohn wrote on 6/26/2004, 2:16 PM

Hi;

I rendered a 2 hour MPG with the idea of using the first half of the .MPG for one DVD and the second half for the another.

I appear to be able to mark half of the file for use (Double click and set the mark-in and Mark-out points), and DVDA-2 chapters seem to indicate that I've selected to use only 1/2 of the file.

But, DVDA-2 always seems to still want to use all 8 GB in the created VIDEO_TS instead of only the part actually used.

Is there a way to tell DVDA-2 to only include the part of the MPG that's actually used?

A 'cheapie' program like TmpGenC DVD Author let's you do this, so I assume I just haven't figured out how to accomplish this in DVDA-2.

Thanks;

-Greg Bohn

Comments

bStro wrote on 6/26/2004, 4:50 PM

Is there a way to tell DVDA-2 to only include the part of the MPG that's actually used?

Nope.

Rob

mike_2004z wrote on 6/26/2004, 4:54 PM

Can't do that with DVDA (why ??). Try to use another program to chop off the unused portion (Womble products are good) prior to author with DVDA.

gbohn wrote on 6/26/2004, 7:13 PM

I tried this, and it seemed to work o.k. except that then I couldn't figure out how to preserve the markers... If I split the file into part-1.mpg and part-2.mpg, the new MPG's no longer have chapter markers.

I even tried copying and renaming the original '.sfl' file to 'part-1.mpg.sfl', but the markers didn't seem to 'take' in DVDA-2 (and even if that worked, that wouldn't work too well for part-2.mpg).

The chapter markers implementation seems to be incomplete. I was recently trying to figure out how to preserve markers from one render to the next in VV 5..

I wanted to render a project to .AVI (to circumevent a 'feature' of 2-Pass VBR encoding where they seem to do all the track Video FX work twice) and then render that .AVI to MPG.

I can get the markers saved with the new .AVI file, but when I load this back into a new Vegas project (for the subsequent MPG encode), the markers are now only 'media markers' instead of 'project markers'.

There doesn't appear to be a way to convert or 'promote' these media markers to project markers.

So the markers do not get preserved/forwarded to the new .MPG, and therfor don't end up in DVDA.

I eventually found a work-around, but you would think that the ability to 'promote' these media markers to project markers would be in order.

-Greg Bohn