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rs170a wrote on 12/11/2008, 3:35 PM
Chapter points are entirely up to you.
I just shot a play today and scene changes are the obvious place to put markers.
You don't say what your movie is but my thinking is to place them at location changes.
YMMV.

Mike
JerryS wrote on 12/11/2008, 3:58 PM
I have been sitting here thinking about it and that make sence. What i have is a captured video that I edited and made my own movie (just playing to learn Vegas) with clips here and there. It makes sence to do it that way.

JerryS
Chienworks wrote on 12/11/2008, 5:15 PM
Definitely go for scene or action changes. Watch through your video once and note places where the location changes, or something is introduced, or the view is different, etc. Press the M key at these locations to drop a marker. You can then move them around as well as add or delete them afterwards. These markers become the chapter points in DVDA.

If you want to hear a waaaaay lowball method i've used ... lately i've had a large number of jobs burning finished videos to DVDs. Some of these are more than 2 hours long and i don't have the time or patience to sift through the entire thing looking for appropriate scene changes. I'll start off dropping a marker every 5 or 10 minutes, depending on the length of the video. Then i'll zoom in so that there's about 2 minutes across the width of the screen and advance to each marker in sequence. I'll scroll the cursor backwards and forwards a bit looking for an obvious change somewhere nearby, and move the marker there.

Very lowball, but it gets the job done and gives the viewer at least a few chapter markers to skip around in.
JerryS wrote on 12/11/2008, 5:30 PM
Chieworks,

Realy good info THANKS

JerryS