Multiple Menu Paths?

John222 wrote on 3/13/2013, 12:15 PM
I'm taping a school musical over two nights. Some of the children will be sharing leads over the two nights. For instance, one will be in the ensemble Friday night and then be a lead on Saturday night. And visa versa.. Only a few scenes are affected and I don't want to produce (2) videos. Is there a way of constructing the menu's so the viewer can select whether they see the Friday casting or Saturday casting. Overall the video will be an aggregate of the best scenes of both nights with the exception of those few double cast scenes. Any thoughts?

Comments

Former user wrote on 3/13/2013, 12:33 PM
Honestly, you will spend more time trying to make this work on the DVD than it will take to edit two videos. and I don't think it will play smooth because it will involve scripting and jumping around on the disk which will probably make pauses. A commcercially mastered disk may be more seamless, but a burned will probably have pauses or gaps.

Make two video and save yourself a lot of headaches and returned disks

Dave T2
musicvid10 wrote on 3/13/2013, 2:33 PM
"Make two video and save yourself a lot of headaches and returned disks"
Reminds me vaguely of a personal story I have quoted before on these forums, from back in the video tape days:

Oh, different performances.
Chienworks wrote on 3/13/2013, 3:56 PM
That reminds me of the time i got asked to help out on a high school project. The athletic department wanted to make an exercise video. We only had one camera available but we wanted to intersperse different angles, so the plan was that they class would run the entire routine three times and we would shoot first from one side, then from another side, and last various closeups. Since the music was a pre-recorded mix and the routine would be the same each time cutting together shouldn't be too difficult.

Alas, at the last moment, without consulting the tech crew, the athletic director decided doing the same thing three times would be too boring so she used three different mixes, arbitrarily did different exercises each time and changed routines at arbitrary points. We techs didn't notice until we were trying to match up the three tapes. There was nothing we could match from any of them.
musicvid10 wrote on 3/13/2013, 10:34 PM
"There was nothing we could match from any of them."

Kind of like a band shooting their own music video?