I am in the process of making a bilingual DVD with separate menus in English and Hungarian that will play the same movie file when the user select "Play movie" from either of these menus.
However I had to duplicate the movie so I could assign separate end action to it so it would return to the menu that the user selected the movie from.
Duplicating the movie file is not a big deal, DVDA2 is smart enough to know that it is the same steram and it will only put it on the disc once.
However where DVDA2's intelligence breaks down is in ripple editing:
I tried to add a new audio track to the movie clip as well as adding some subtitle tracks and as soon as I do that, instead of adding these new tracks to every instance of the media stream, DVDA just realizes that the two steams no longer match (one has one audio track the other has 2, or one has no subtitle track the other has) and it attempts to generate multiple instances of the same stream.
However if I first add the audio tracks and the subtitle tracks and duplicate them afterwards, everything is fine and DVDA will only write the media once onto the disc.
The same issue arises if I try to add a new subtitle event to an existing subtitle track, or try to move a subtitle event that was already there. Pretty much any change in any of the media files will not trickle through, it will just result in them being different and DVDA deciding to put them on the disk twice.
Is there a fix for this behaviour so all movie events that originate from the sme original will actually just retain the original's settings and if that changes they just change along with it? I don't see any benefit of the way it is working now. The only thing that makes sense to be different is their start and end times so you can play chapters on their own.
If your answer is that "get your movie perfect before you start duplicating it", I agree that currently this is the only thing you can do, but when I plan to duplicate the same movie several times (20+) I really have to hope that there is not one mistake in the original before I start duplicating it, otherwise it will be a big PITA to replace everything. The only drawback is that during the week I would rather work on the DVD menu system and authoring and finish my two needed soundtracks and subtitle tracks on the weekend, but it seems like I can't go with that workflow with the way things are......
However I had to duplicate the movie so I could assign separate end action to it so it would return to the menu that the user selected the movie from.
Duplicating the movie file is not a big deal, DVDA2 is smart enough to know that it is the same steram and it will only put it on the disc once.
However where DVDA2's intelligence breaks down is in ripple editing:
I tried to add a new audio track to the movie clip as well as adding some subtitle tracks and as soon as I do that, instead of adding these new tracks to every instance of the media stream, DVDA just realizes that the two steams no longer match (one has one audio track the other has 2, or one has no subtitle track the other has) and it attempts to generate multiple instances of the same stream.
However if I first add the audio tracks and the subtitle tracks and duplicate them afterwards, everything is fine and DVDA will only write the media once onto the disc.
The same issue arises if I try to add a new subtitle event to an existing subtitle track, or try to move a subtitle event that was already there. Pretty much any change in any of the media files will not trickle through, it will just result in them being different and DVDA deciding to put them on the disk twice.
Is there a fix for this behaviour so all movie events that originate from the sme original will actually just retain the original's settings and if that changes they just change along with it? I don't see any benefit of the way it is working now. The only thing that makes sense to be different is their start and end times so you can play chapters on their own.
If your answer is that "get your movie perfect before you start duplicating it", I agree that currently this is the only thing you can do, but when I plan to duplicate the same movie several times (20+) I really have to hope that there is not one mistake in the original before I start duplicating it, otherwise it will be a big PITA to replace everything. The only drawback is that during the week I would rather work on the DVD menu system and authoring and finish my two needed soundtracks and subtitle tracks on the weekend, but it seems like I can't go with that workflow with the way things are......