Single Movie with chapter selections

QE wrote on 9/7/2004, 7:59 AM

I've created a 2 hour video in Vegas 5.0 and rendered it as an NTSC DV format video. What I want to do is create menu with scene selections from the 2 hour video. So when the DVD is loaded the main menu appears with 5 chapter points within the 2 hour video. How do I do this?

Thanks

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ScottW wrote on 9/7/2004, 8:28 AM

Start DVDA 2.0. Drag the movie from the DVDA explorer window onto the main menu DVDA created for you.

Double click on the movie to navigate into it. On the timeline in the lower right corner, the movie will appear. Position the mouse at the location you want the first chapter. Click to position the guide and type M on the keyboard; Repeat for other chapters.

Go back tot he main menu; Right click on the movie and select "Insert scene selection menu" - another thumbnail will appear titled "Scene Selection"

On tree display, you'l see the additional menu with links to the various chapters. Simply drag the links for each chapter into the main menu. At this point you can delete the scene selection menu.

You now have a thumbnail for "Play All" (the original movie you dragged in) as well as thumbnails for each chapter.

You should also take a look at the documentation provided with the product.

--Scott

QE wrote on 9/7/2004, 9:41 PM

Hi Scott,

Thank you that worked exactly the way I wanted. But now I have another question. I've imported a video and audio file to be looped in the background of the menu. When I preview the project both audio and video in the background loop great, however when I burn the project the audio pauses for a second then plays again. Is there a setting that I have to apply so that there is no gap after the first audio loop?

Thanks

ScottW wrote on 9/8/2004, 5:20 AM

That's normal and there's nothing you can do about it other than design your audio with this gap in mind.