Play videos sequentially, w/o return to menu?

Peyton wrote on 6/17/2003, 1:35 PM
I have several video segments as separate mpg's. They are scenes from a wedding and a reception. How do I prepare them so the resulting DVD will play from scene to scene, instead of returning to the menu between each one?

One obvious answer is render them all together and then insert chapter marks. This would clutter up my hard drive with all the pieces/parts and the all-together movie. Any better ideas?

Cheers,
Peyton

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jetdv wrote on 6/17/2003, 3:37 PM
Make them all ONE video. But I don't understand your reason for not wanting to do so. I also edit in pieces and render them to AVI. I then create one file project in which I place all of the AVI files. This I then render to MPEG2 and AC-3 for the DVD creating ONE DVD file.
wobblyboy wrote on 6/17/2003, 5:47 PM
If you have the AVIs for the clips on the hard drive, Vegas only creates a pointer to them so your hard drive should not be any more cluttered up than it already is.

Set up project in Vegas, set markers for chapter points. Render to MPEG 2, bring into DVDA, create menu with pointer to entire movie, select scene selection menu and you will have menu with chapter points automatically created. To play entire movie from beginning select icon for movie. To start movie at selected scenes (chapter points) use scene select menu. If you select a scene it will play from that scene to end of movie and return to main menu. If you want to just play each scene and return to scene selection menu at the end of the scene, you have to edit start and end points for each scene.

If you need to render individual clips to MPEG, then you will have to use DVD Workshop or some other application that allows end of play action, at least until next version of DVDA comes out.

I ran into the same problem when I first started using DVDA, I was used to rendering seperate clips to MPEG and then linking them in DVD Workshop. It's actually quicker to lay it all out in Vegas with markers and let DVDA set up chapter points automatically. You just have to know that you need to do it before you start.

Peyton wrote on 6/17/2003, 6:27 PM
Okey doke, one movie it is!

Thanks, Wobbly, that sounds fairly simple.

Jetdv, I was just trying to avoid having my movie on the hard drive as all the pieces/parts as well as the rendered mpg of all of them together.

Cheers,
Peyton