Hope this helps for some!

film2video wrote on 6/25/2003, 8:49 PM
I tried this procedure and it works for me.
A lot of people are wondering, how to connect several clips for a seamless movie?
First render your video with Vegas using "Save as type:MainConcept Mpeg-2"
"Template:Dvd Architect NTSC video stream" for the video part. Second render the audio "Save as type:Dolby Digital AC3" "Template:5.1 Surround dvd". Do as many files that you want. Third use TMPGEnc, click on file MPEG Tools and Merge &Cut, change the type to:MPEG-2 Program (VBR). Add all your mpeg-2 files only and it will create one big MPEG-2 file. Take all your AC3 files that you rendered and join them together by doing this. Open up a Command Prompt go into your directory that has the AC3 files and type this: copy /b ac1.ac3+ac2.ac3+ac3.ac3 final.ac3 now you have one big AC3 file. I wish that there is a program that could join all the Ac3 files together,but I don't know of any.
If you use this procedure you 'DO NOT HAVE TO RENDER AGAIN IN DVD ARCHITECT".
I hope this helps someone, and if anyone has a way to improve this procedure "PLEASE HELP!" Thanks.

Comments

John_Cline wrote on 6/25/2003, 9:15 PM
Each of the individual .AC3 files have a header at the beginning which contain non-audio information. When you merge them with the copy command, the headers of each file are sprinkled throughout the resulting merged .AC3 file. What happens when you play this file, is there an audio glitch at the beginning of each section? Somehow, merging them like this doesn't seem like an ideal way to do it. But, I guess if it works...

John
film2video wrote on 6/25/2003, 11:20 PM
"is there an audio glitch at the beginning of each section?" I tried 6 files and din't notice any audio glitch, but to be safe I will try again.