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Which alternative is better?
I’m going to start working on our latest holiday video. I only want to keep the highlights from the trip. My wife wants to also keep footage that would only be as reminders of things like the hotel rooms etc. If I put this onto a disk there will be plenty of room for both versions.
The question arises as to render out 2 separate files for importing into DVDA or just one.
If I only have one file to import into DVDA it would be easy to create scene selection menu for everything. But if when I try to create a separate scene selection menu just for highlights I think this would be much more difficult since I would have to manually alter every out points for each chapter as well as altering the layout of each pages layout. Isn’t this the case?
Alternatively I could create 2 separate files in Vegas but this would mean rendering out the project twice. This would take a long time.
Is my summation of the choices valid or did I miss something? Is there a better alternative that I haven’t mentioned?
Thanks in advance
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If it was me, I’d put everything on a single timeline with markers as needed and render out a single timeline.
Once in DVDA, I’d make three main menu items with #1 being the trip highlights, #2 being the extras that your wife wants and #3 being the scene selection menu.
Because you have the markers from the original Vegas render, it’s a matter of choosing which scene selection you want.
Add as many scene selection icons as you want by adding the main render to this screen as many times as you want.
This wont add anything to the file size as you’ve already rendered this so it’s just a location marker.
Change it to Text Only so you can fit more on a single screen.
Double-click it and choose the desired spot by clicking “i” on the in point marker and “o” on the out point marker.
It will take some time but, IMHO, the results will be worth it.
I go into more detail on doing this in the DVD scene selection markers as in comm. DVDs thread.
Some of the material was posted twice (my fault!!) so my reply was a lot longer than it needed to be.
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