Play All Clips?

whiplash wrote on 10/9/2003, 9:38 PM

I am making a DVD of my sons football games and I'm creating a "Highlight Reel" menu of his plays. I have about 20 clips that I have put into menus on 4 pages and set the in and out points of each one.

I would like to create a button on the first page that will play all of the clips one after the other. I can't quite figure out how to do it.

Can this be done with DVDA?

Is this where "End Actions" would be used?

Thanks for the help.

Mark

Comments

clearvu wrote on 10/9/2003, 9:45 PM

No, "end actions" cannot be done with DVDA......yet.

Brian

whiplash wrote on 10/9/2003, 9:47 PM

Do you know if I can play all the clips without the end actions?

BillyBoy wrote on 10/9/2003, 9:58 PM

Render all the clips as ONE project in Vegas. Once rendered open in DVD-A and set chapter points. About the best you can do without end point support which DVD-A doesn't have yet.

The result will be each thumbnail plays through to the end of the video. So the first thumbnail plays all the way, the second with play from that point to end and the third chapter from that point and so on.

whiplash wrote on 10/9/2003, 10:57 PM

Thanks for the help.

That is sort of what I thought that I would have to do. I'll try it on the next one I do.

farss wrote on 10/11/2003, 8:42 AM

If you haven't got a lot of video to go onto the DVD you could also have a complete copy AND the individual clips. One menu says 'Play All' and another one points to a page of menu items that play the individual clips.

Far from elegant though.

We may find though that even with end actions it doesn't work that well. The player still has to read the end pointers or whatever, execute the instructions and jump back to play the next clip. I cannot say with any cerainty but it's possible this may not be a seemless operation.

You get much the same problem with looped menu backgrounds, a small pause while the head flies back to the start of the clip, I usually render as many iterations as will fit to make it less noticeable.

johnmeyer wrote on 10/11/2003, 9:39 PM

We may find though that even with end actions it doesn't work that well. The player still has to read the end pointers or whatever, execute the instructions and jump back to play the next clip. I cannot say with any cerainty but it's possible this may not be a seemless operation.

I am pretty certain that you are correct (as usual) farss. I have other software that can do this simple thing (play multiple MPEG2 files without returning to the menu) and on my DVD player (Pioneer DV-525), there is a brief hesitation (about 1 second) before the next chapter plays. I think this is a little like what happens in the audio CD world, where you can author individual tracks ("track at once") and have a 2 second gap between tracks, or you can merge everything together and burn all at once, and have no gap whatsoever (disc at once).