Way Aroung th 18 Chapter Limit?

Byron K wrote on 5/21/2010, 10:31 AM
I have a DVD w/ 20 chapters. Each chapter is a seprate video clip. When I Make DVD a message pops up and says that it only alows for 18 chapters. Is there a way around this?

I'm thinking I may have to double up some video clips into one chapter so how do I join two seprate video clips into one chapter?

Thanks!

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musicvid10 wrote on 5/21/2010, 11:53 AM
If you have 20 separate clips in one project you may have twenty separate titles.
Use Vegas to render all your clips into one big file, using the DVD Architect templates.
DVD Architect allows for many more than twenty chapters. Mine all have 30-40 chapters.
Byron K wrote on 5/21/2010, 2:39 PM
Hey musicvid,
Thanks for the reply!

Here's a shot of the error message:
http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu208/bk-vegas/toomanybuttons.jpg

I have tried to render as one long video file w/ markers imported fine from Vegas but get the same message when I insert chapter markers to the marker locations.

The DVDArch version I'm using is 5.b (Build 180)
bStro wrote on 5/21/2010, 3:33 PM
That's not too many chapters, that's just too many buttons.

Each menu / menu page can have up to 18 buttons. If you need more buttons, simply add more menus or pages to that menu.

Rob
musicvid10 wrote on 5/21/2010, 5:26 PM
Ahh, that explains it.
I like to have no more than ten buttons per menu page in my widescreen projects.
That's so I can make them large enough as to be readable on 4:3 letterboxed sets.
Byron K wrote on 5/22/2010, 12:38 PM
Yes, I needed 20 buttons. Huge thanks for your assistance!