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DVD Architect. How do I do chapters only?
Firstly I hope you all had a good christmas and hope you all have a fantastic 2008!
I have 2 questions.
I want to make a DVD architect project and have only chapters. I don’t want a ‘PLAY MOVIE’ button. I just want it to start at a chapter selection menu but don’t know how to do this.
I tried deleting the ‘PLAY’ button but that deletes the chapters as well.
Second question:
I went to prepare a DVD project and the filesize was too big to fit on a DVD. It was 4.8gig. DVD architect gave me an option to optimize but that did nothing. Either that or I wasn’t doing it properly. I was in a bit of a rush.
The project was encoded at 7mb/sec in Vegas at a fixed rate. Now is the only way to solve this is to re encode the project in Vegas at a smaller data rate or can it be fixed from within DVD architect?
I want to use fixed data rates. Is it all trial and error and guessing to see if the result fits on a DVD or is there a method to work out what data rate I need in relation to the project length in minutes?
-Frankie
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3 Replies
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Hi,
For the first question, do you have several separate clips (called Titles), or do you have one long Title with several “Chapters” (jump-to markers within the Title)?
For your playback, what should happen after selecting the Chapter?
1) continue playing until the end of the Title
2) stop playing at the end of that chapter, and go back to the chapter-selection menuFor your second question, you can calculate the encoding settings based on your entire video duration. other things come into play if you plan to include things such as (motion menus, multiple video angles, multiple audio tracks, and DVD-ROM data). Basically, you have to subtract out the “extra” stuff to see how much space is needed for the main video track(s).
There are bitrate calculators around the net. I use the one at videohelp.com/calc.htm
Regards,
George -
First, I would never reencode in DVDA. It degrages badly. Reencode in Vegas. Try a 6M.
I’m not sure I understand your first question but you can do a File-New-Single Movie and have chapter markers in your mpg2 file and the DVD you get will play when you put it in the machine but you can jump through the movie to each chapter marker.
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ok, fairly simple:
1) add the movie to the project for as many buttons as you need – simply drop it in many times
2) rename each button for the relevant chapter
3) double click whichever chapter you wish to define
4) the video should appear on the DVDA timeline
5) drag the IN and OUT points to the right position for that partic chapter – them yellow thingsbtw, although you add the video many times, it will only be on the disk once
HTH 🙂
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