Problem Setting Chapters...

duranh wrote on 8/4/2003, 5:22 PM

I'm hoping someone else has come across this situation. I've just started using DVD-A and so far I find it to be great for what I want to do. I haven't actually been able to burn anything yet because of this one problem...
Everytime I set chapter points for a movie and then go to the preview screen to check it out, the video starts right up where I want it, but the audio is still a few minutes back. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm sure it's probably something that I'm just not doing correctly.
Here's what I do: 1) I dbl-clk the video file to set the chapters, 2) I set all chapters where I want them (using the Insert Chapters button) and name them accordingly, and 3) I close that page and return to my project. Then I go to preview to check it out, and like I said, the video starts right where I want but the audio doesn't.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I forgot to add one more question... Let's say I just skip the whole chapter selections if I can't get that to work. I have 2 files that make up 1 movie. How do I create a button on the first menu page to automatically play both files? Right now I put file 1 on the first menu page and set it to "text only." Will the dvd player automatically start file 2 after file 1 is finished?

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kameronj wrote on 8/4/2003, 7:00 PM

Second question first.

No. Can't be done. DVDA (v1) doesn't do end actions yet. I you are going to want the second program to start after the first one is done...you need to join those to files to make one long "movie"...then use the chaper selects to have users start either the first or the second one.

I'm sure end actions will be worked on and available in later releases.

As for the audio being out of synch....does the file play out of sych in any other media player (outside of Vegas)? Reason I ask, I had rendered a file (six times!!!!) cause it kept getting out of synch when building a DVD. But - in the long run, the file was jumping out of synch in any media player I played (so it was something that I did).

Give that a shot. ope it helps.

Kam

duranh wrote on 8/5/2003, 8:09 AM

OK. Thanks for answering the second question, and by the way, THAT SUCKS!
Now for the first. The file plays perfectly in all other media players. I just got ReelDVD last night, so I'm going to install that and play around with it. I messed with it a little bit last night and it's very confusing! I may just give up on DVD-A since it won't play all files automatically.
Thanks again.

Duran

alfredsvideo wrote on 8/9/2003, 4:14 PM

Try DVDLab. At $79 it's a steal.