Work flow question with VMSP+DVD

Beefcake wrote on 12/15/2006, 3:55 PM

All,

I am pretty new to video editing and making DVD movies. I have a little one on the way, so I recently bought a cam corder and thought I would give this a shot. I am by no means shooting to be a professional. With all that said, here are my questions.

My end goal in mind is to have a simple menu driven DVD movie with scene selection and maybe some picture slide shows in there somewhere as well. I want to document special events and vacations, etc.

Is it best to render separate .m2t files and then piece them all together with DVD architect, or should I render 1 big file and then use DVD architect to add all of the bells and whistles in terms of menus and scene selections at the end?

Thanks,
Todd

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Chienworks wrote on 12/15/2006, 5:10 PM

Well, you're going to be rendering .mpg files, not .m2t.

As far as rendering is concerned, if you want a long video broken up into chapters, it's better to render as a single file in Vegas. Place markers on the timeline where you want chapter points and these will import into DVDA.

If you have clips that you want to have entirely as separate menu items, as in the player doesn't automatically move on to the next when one is finished, then rendering them as separate files makes more sense.