DVD Menu & Chapters

[Peter Wright]

Yes. If you use the Chapters via a Scene selection menu, then it will continue playing, as is meant to happen with chapters.

To achieve what you want, create a sub-menu from your main menu, then for each chapter, drag the same complete movie to the menu, double click to open the time line and drag the start and end triangular flags to start and stop where you want.
When the stop point is reached, it will return to the menu.

DVDA is smart enough to realise that it’s the same clip each time, and will not use up mutiple space on the DVD.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Chris Franklin]

Ya know, I tried doing that very same thing, “drag the start and end triangular flags to start and stop where you want.
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I did this because my rendered video file was too big to fit on the DVD, so I moved the yellow flags to make it smaller. My thoughts was to change the in and out points and put each section on a different DVD.

It will work, but the further I move the section, the bigger the file becomes.

I’ll try to explain,

On the left side of the timeline, I move the flags to make it fit in about 4 Gigs. I burned that DVD. Then I moved the flags to the right to highlight another section of the DVD. It worked, but I couldn’t fit as much video in the section. I keep repeating the process and each time the section keeps getting smaller and smaller because I have to make it 4 Gigs.

The video is about 3 hours. I wish it could all fit on one DVD.

I’m now going back into Vegas and rending out the sections that I want so that they will fit on a DVD.

I know this is a lot of information, but if someone has a tip or two, I’d appreciate it.

Thanks

[Jason Harbaugh]

You could always burn to a dual layer DVD, or if you are stuck with single layer you can always have Architect re-encode the video at a smaller bitrate to fit all the video on the DVD. You would lose some image quality but to most eyes it is neglible. Heck you should see how low the bitrate drops on some hollywood produced DVD’s.