Opinions on piecing mpg2's together in DVDA

dornier wrote on 6/23/2006, 4:32 AM
Last night the power went out while encoding a project.

Out of 9 minutes (small project) I got about 7.5. It's got some 3D in there so the times to finish are a bit longer than what I have.

Does anyone see a smoothness problem with just rendering the last tune and making it the end-action of the stuff that did complete successfully?

This new piece would then just end-action out to the main menu where it was going anyway.

Any thoughts?

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/23/2006, 5:37 AM
> Does anyone see a smoothness problem with just rendering the last tune and making it the end-action of the stuff that did complete successfully?

Yup, definitely a smoothness issue. On my Panasonic DVD players there is a definite pause between links when I do this. I had the exact same problem (only it was title I needed to fix at the beginning of a video) and another 4 hr render was out of the question. I used Womble to stitch the two files together and it worked flawlessly with no re-encoding. Womble should be in everyone’s toolkit.

~jr
Chienworks wrote on 6/23/2006, 5:40 AM
There will probably be a slight pause when the DVD player switches to the second piece. Some players may even "hang" for a few moments showing a frame a second or so before the end of the first piece before jumping to the second part. You might want to consider a "Music Compilation" which works just as well for videos as for music. This allows DVDA to treat any number of MPEG files as a single item played in sequence.

Just curious, but are you sure the partial MPEG file you got is usable? Whenever i've had a render stop partway through the resulting MPEG file is corrupted and nothing will open it or play it.
dornier wrote on 6/23/2006, 8:10 AM
Yeah, I was afraid of that.

In any case I discovered I had enough time to re-do the whole thing.


**O.T for a moment**
I'm not in this industry with you folks, although I have several years of flash experience--before I get the chance to start taking classes where can I find the equivalent of, say, "teach yourself TCP/IP in 24 hours" in terms of bit-rates, pulldowns, vid production, et al?

I've been using Vegas 6 for only two projects, and movie studio before that. But, I'd like to take it to the next level and thoroughly school myself.
plasmavideo wrote on 6/23/2006, 10:13 AM
Good Starting Place:

www.vasst.com
dornier wrote on 6/23/2006, 10:59 AM
Thanks,

How many folks here do this full-time?
And, what kinds of capacity if you don't mind me asking?