PLayall + individual sections....Please??

PDB wrote on 9/2/2003, 8:47 AM

Guys/Girls,

This is a very relevant issue for me at the moment..I'm not "new" to DVDA, but I'm going to burn a DVD with a different authoring structure to what I've been doing until now (basically authoring dvds which contain several short mpeg2 files).

My present project (still in editing stage) entails a "playall" option + an option to playback parts of the same file one at a time (so chapters are not the solution...) I understand that the way I should do it is Edit and render one AVI or Mpeg2 in Vegas which will be the file to author the whole project from.
What I'm confused about (and not clear after reading the manual) is the steps to make both the "playall" button and then the separate buttons to play sections individually....(via in & out points). Do I need 2 copies of the mpeg2 to do this or is one enough (important obviously for final quality) If 1 is enough, how do I get both options? When you establish in & out points, does this auto-magically generate buttons for each in point? Will this in-out points generate new mpeg2 sections which will eat up further space?

MANY, MANY thanks for the pointers!

All the best,

Paul.

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JSWTS wrote on 9/6/2003, 5:55 PM

Well,

I guess we can just agree to disagree. I see posts all the time on this and other forums about competing apps. I agree that posts that denigrate an application while applauding a competitors app are annoying. However, I personally believe it is to some degree healthy to have constructive debate on the merits of what one app can do, or better yet, how to emulate the same function in your app via some trick or shortcut someone has found out. As an example, DVD-SP allows access to UOP's (like restricting navigation during playback of some files or menus). DVD-A doesn't, but you can create the video_ts folder and alter the ifo file with Ifoedit and do just that. Hearing about the feature in another app may lead to finding a workaround in the one you own. When this forum first started, no one was talking about greater end user function control. Others brought up this deficiency (based on their experience with other apps), and now it's referenced rather frequently. Some lacking functions seem to strike a chord with a number of users, and others don't. In either case, maybe it gives Sonic an idea of what the hard core user base would like to see with the next version.

In terms of the playlists, I'd be curious as to how you'd like to see DVD-A offer greater end user control(like your 'play all' example). There is the 'hard' way--access to GPRM registers and scripting, or a way that 'shields' the user from the complexities of writing the code (like playlists).

Welll...only one reference to DVD-SP (oops, now 2), but I think is was in a positive light?

Cheers,
Jim