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richard-courtney wrote on 8/31/2006, 12:35 PM
Start a NEW single movie project. It will bring up a Windows explore window to select
your first file.
Drag your second file to the project overview window. It will place it under your first
file.
Repeat with the third file.
Click on your first file. Then click on the End Action in Media Properties.
Change Destination from "Most recent menu" to your second file.
Click on your second file. Set the End Action Destination to your third file.
Click on your third file. Set the End Action Destination to "Most recent menu".
Click on Command above it and change it from "Link" to "Stop".
johnmeyer wrote on 8/31/2006, 1:19 PM
RCourtney's advice will indeed let each file play, in turn, one after the other. However, there will still be noticeable pause between each file. Depending on what you are trying to do, you may find that putting all the files in a "music compilation" will get you close to what you want. More information here:

Music Compilation
RubyTuesday wrote on 8/31/2006, 2:22 PM
Thank you both for your help.
RubyTuesday wrote on 8/31/2006, 3:16 PM
John,

I just tried linking all three scenes in DVDA1 and playing them without pauses. It works great...except for one thing. There appears to be a black frame between each scene. Is there a way to avoid this or remove it? Thank you.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 8/31/2006, 7:51 PM
don't have a black frame at the start/end of your vid's. it doesn't insert frames.

why not just render all three videos as one video? then insert that?
bStro wrote on 8/31/2006, 8:21 PM
Are these files you rendered in Vegas? And if so, are you also using AC3 audio rendered from Vegas?

When you render a timeline out to MPEG2 and out to AC3, Vegas tends to make the AC3 file ever-so-slightly longer than then MPEG2. So when you put these two files back together, the audio plays a tiny bit longer than the video has data for (even if the file itself is silent). The video stream has no choice but to show an empty screen.

The solution would be to go back into Vegas, trim a few "frames" off the audio, and re-render it to AC3. So long as you don't have any important audio at the very end, don't worry about having the video longer than the audio -- it's better than having it the other way around.

And if this isn't what's happening, well, put this info in the vault in case you do run into it. ;)

Rob
johnmeyer wrote on 8/31/2006, 11:55 PM
I got a private email from Ruby. He's trying to combine 24p and 60i into a seemless video. I think he either needs to use a professional encoder, or he may be able to combine them with Womble prior to authoring in DVDA. Anyone else have other ideas?