• Adobe Encore DVD

  Timeline Segmenting Question

  Posted by Scott Cowperthwait on April 20, 2005 at 3:58 pm

  This is more of a workflow question, but any help would be great. We are producing hour long programs that get changed every year, sometimes just part of the program. The program is segmented and I was originally just transcoding the whole program as one big piece then adding chapters into it. I wanted to import the segments individually but when I tried that I realized that I can’t put them on the same timeline and also they aren’t chapters any more so you can’t hit next chapter to go to it. Does that make any sense? And does anyone know a way around this. I want to save the MPEG 2 files and make them segments so when next year rolls around I only have to update part of it instead of exporting the whole thing from AVID again.

  Thanks for any help.

  Scott

  Scott Cowperthwait replied 21 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Roadkill

  April 20, 2005 at 11:42 pm

  As playback from segment to segment probably doesn’t have to be seamless, you could put each clip in its own timeline and add all timelines to a “playlist” (in Encore 1.5.x).
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  Scott Cowperthwait

  April 21, 2005 at 11:58 am

  So if I have a play list the user can skip to the next chapter and that would be the next timeline?

  Thanks for the help Roadkill.

  Scott
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  Tim Kurkoski

  April 21, 2005 at 4:04 pm

  So if I have a play list the user can skip to the next chapter and that would be the next timeline?

  It depends on the DVD player that is being used. What a play list does is connect multiple timelines. When using the “next chapter” button on the remote, some DVD players will skip to the end of the video stream (timeline). Other DVD players do nothing. This behavior isn’t defined by the DVD spec, so different manufacturers implement it differently.

  A common workaround for this is to put a chapter marker at the end of each timeline (within the last second or so), so that if the user does make a chapter jump, it’s only a short delay before the next timeline begins.

  Note that in any case, the “previous chapter” button will NOT return them to the previous segment.
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  Scott Cowperthwait

  April 21, 2005 at 4:34 pm

  thanks Timothy,

  That makes sense. So really in order to allow the users to skip around I need to keep the whole piece as one mpeg and add chapter marks. Kind of a pain but it seems like the best way.

  Scott

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