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Architect question: continuous play across two halves of a baseball game
This is probably an easy question, but I can’t find an answer in the documentation or figure it out intuitively. I was forced to shoot a baseball game in two video files, and didn’t want to render them into a single file (I’ve had bad luck with resolution from re-rendering, and wanted to use the original MPEG-2 files in DVD Architect). I’ve set up a menu with a graphic of the box score, so you can navigate over the box score to start the video from any given half inning.
I’d like it to play the game from any selected half-inning until the end of the game, unless the viewer selects the menu button to go back to the box score, or hits “previous” multiple times to go back to whatever previous half-inning he wants, including back to the start of the game. However, I’ve found that if I select a half-inning that happens to be from the first video file, it will only play to the end of that first video file, and not go on to the second video file (either by “play” or “next”). Likewise, if I select a half-inning from the second video file, it will play to the end of the game, but I cannot hit “previous” to go backwards through to innings in the first video file.
Is there any way to have the playback automatically go across the two video files — forward and backward — without re-rendering the two video files into a single file? If not, is there any way to do the re-rendering without having to reenter all the chapter markers that set the half-inning points?
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> Is there any way to have the playback automatically go across the two video files — forward and backward — without re-rendering the two video files into a single file?
You can set the End Action of the first file to play the second file so that they play continuously. This will not allow you to navigate backwards across that End Action but it will allow you to navigate forward across it.
> If not, is there any way to do the re-rendering without having to reenter all the chapter markers that set the half-inning points?
Vegas will smart render MPEG-2. That is to say, if you place both files on the timeline and don’t change anything and you render with the same properties, Vegas will simply copy the two files into a third one with no loss of quality. The trick is rendering to the exact same properties which could be tricky with MPEG files from a DVD camcorder.
~jr
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