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Combining titles in DVDA5
I had to render a Vegas pro 8 avc project in 2 parts, since it wouldn’t render all at once without shutting down. I’ve imported both parts into DVDA5 in order to make a menu page. Is there a way I can seemlessly have the second part play immediately after the first as if it were one title? If I select the “end action” of the first part to link to the second part, will it continue to play without a title page coming up first, forcing me to manually select the second half? If it won’t work is there another way to accomplish this? Thanks!
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should work
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There will be a brief pause between the two videos but it will work. You should make sure that the split is at a point that a pause won’t be noticed (like a fade to black).
Also, if you set chapter points they will not return past the second video once it has started. In other words you can chapter forward but once you are in the second video, you can only navigate back through chapters up to the start of the second video.
In the future you might try rendering the two halves to an intermediary format and then place the two intermediaries on the timeline and render to the delivery format as one file.
~jr
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What sort of intermediary format are you refering to. I’m not familiar with this type of technique. Thanks!
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Digital intermediaries are usually lossless or near-lossless formats. For HD Vegas ships with the CineForm codec. It can be found under Video for Windows (*.avi) in templates like HDV 1080-60i intermediate. If you’re not using HD then you can render to a codec like Huffyuv or Logarith which are both lossless or you can render uncompressed or Quicktime Animation. (You can do a Google search on “Huffyuv” or “Logarith” to find these and download them as they do not come with Vegas.) If it’s just DV quality, you can even use the Vegas DV codec which can be re-rendered to several times with no appreciable loss in quality.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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