How can you link multiple clips to play as one?

Shredder wrote on 6/10/2003, 8:23 AM

I'm trying to make a DVD of clips that can each be directly playable or can 'play all' as one big event. I envision the menu to be:

Play individual clips
Clip 1 ---> clip1.mpg (then return to menu)
Clip 2 ---> clip2.mpg (then return to menu)
Clip 3 ---> clip3.mpg (then return to menu)

Play All -----> clip1.mpg, clip2.mpg, clip3.mpg (then return to menu)

Is there any way to link clips to achieve this?

Thanks,

Jon

Comments

jetdv wrote on 6/10/2003, 9:43 AM

Yes, you can achieve this - but NOT the way you are describing. Instead create ONE clip that is currently all three of your clips. Then you can play from start to finish with one button.

For your sub-buttons (that must only play ONE clip), add links to that same clip but specify the in and out points for that button.

Shredder wrote on 6/10/2003, 9:54 AM

I figured this is what i'd have to do... thanks.

This seems like a big oversight on Sofo's part to have not architected this into DVDA to begin with. Seems like we have to jump through hoops for a seemingly simple and obvious feature.

- Jon

johnmeyer wrote on 6/10/2003, 12:20 PM

You are absolutely correct. All they have to do is to combine the MPEG clips into one large clip prior to authoring them into VOB files. This is something shareware products like TMPGEnc and MPEG-VCR do easily (in fact I use these prior to DVD-A to overcome the DVD-A limitation). I sure hope SOFO puts this functionality into the next release and has it operate seamlessly. As near as I can tell, given how the DVD spec requires video to be prepared, you can do just about anything if the video starts as one big clip, but you are limited in how the final DVD can be navigated if you start with separate clips.