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Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/29/2004, 1:33 PM
Er.... as the Irish would say (I are one... so I am allowed)... "Sorry... but you cannot get there from here".

Just curios... why on earth did you do it that way? You can very easily create chapter points in a contiguos video and to then create scene selection menus to bring it all together.

Chienworks wrote on 11/29/2004, 1:33 PM
It probably would have been easier to set markers instead of regions and render a single MPEG file, saving Metadata to output file when rendering. DVD-Architect would automatically pick up these markers as chapter points. I don't think you'll find any way to use the single AC3 file for all the different video files. I think you'll end up with sound only for the first clip, which will then play blank black screen for the rest of the audio (the other 19 chapters), and then the rest of the chapters will be silent.
skibumm101 wrote on 11/29/2004, 1:40 PM
The reason I did it was this(maybee there is a better work flow, if so let me know) I have a project that i am working on that has many different project managers who are in charge of seperate parts of the video. I need a working copy at full resolution for the " exec commite" of the video updated daily. The project managers come to me with the changes they want, and then i need to rerender the whole thing so it is a up2date copy for the exec commitee. Problem is the render takes upwards of 3 hours becasue of color correction. I created regions and only render that region when needed. hope that explains my workflow and why i did what i did.
skibumm101 wrote on 11/29/2004, 1:45 PM
i can render my audio into regions, would this enable me to do what i need to do?
ScottW wrote on 11/29/2004, 1:50 PM
If you can break your audio up as seperate files, then associate each individual audio file with the appropriate MPEG file you could then pull the seperate regions together into DVDA. However, be warned that if you link the seperate clips together the transition from one to the next may not be smooth/transparent.

--Scott
skibumm101 wrote on 11/29/2004, 2:01 PM
does virtualdub join mpeg?
Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/29/2004, 3:47 PM
Yes. rendering audio into separate files will make it work the way you want it to. It was the single audio file vs multiple video clips that was the cause of my "you can't get there from here" statement.