Re-Rendering MPEG 2 clips

waycooljr

waycooljr

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I have a bunch of video clips that I want to use to build a promo DVD for myself. I don't want to import them into DVDa seperately but as one video that has 10 samples on it that plays all when chosen.

These clips are from various local bands I have filmed all rendered in the MPEG 2 for DVDA format. I want to create a play all video that I will send to DVDa. to make this happen the project will have to be rendered again. Will the Re-rendering of already rendered video clips create a bad quality sample? I hope I got my point accross.

Ray
 
Re: Re-Rendering MPEG 2 clips

Any time you decompress/recompress, particularly in a lossy format like MPEG-2, you at least risk quality loss.

To do what you want, put all the segments on the same timeline in Vegas, but put in project markers which will be chapter points (at the start of each segment). Render as a single file, but with project markers.

DVD-A will recognize those markers as chapter points.

You'll then have a play-all button when you drop the video into DVD-A, but you can choose "create scene selection menu" in the File drop-down (you might be able to right-click and get it -- not sure; don't have it in front of me), and it will create a separate menu screen for the individual segments. Customize and move around as desired.

There might be an even easier and/or better way, but that's the way I'd do it.
 
Re: Re-Rendering MPEG 2 clips

Maybe I should start backing my clips in a different format. I wish DVDa had a timeline that allowed you to drop in MPEG 2 files to create one play all scene.

I do use chapter markers to break up each song durring the concert but I rendered each song as MPEG 2 to later bring them into DVDa as seperate files. I was not thinking I wanted to create a play all scene of different songs from different bands.

I could just import them in a menu based DVD with a button for each sample.

Ray
 
Re: Re-Rendering MPEG 2 clips

Sorry, I don't use DVDA, but in most any DVD authoring program, you don't have to have all your movies as one file to be able to have a "play all" feature.

Different authoring apps do this differently, but I find the majority use "End-actions" (which I belive DVDA2 has) and "button overides" (not sure if DVDA has this). Basically, an End-action is set for each movie. It defines what will happen once the movie reaches its end. For play-all functionality, you would set the end action for one movie to go to the movie you want to play next. So, once the first movie ends, the following movie would begin playing. You would set an end action for every movie (where most usually, the last movie in the sequence would return either to the first movie, or to the main menu).

Button overides come into play when you want/need to have a "scene selection" menu to play individual movies (either chapters or separate movies). A button override will override the end-action associated with a movie. This is how it would work:

1)End action of movie set to play next movie when end is reached
2)Create button to go directly to a movie
3)Set button override for this button to do return to "scene selction" menu (for example)

By doing this, each movie will be able to be played individually and it would retun to the menu to select another movie (or any command you choose).

Even if DVDA doesn't have button overrides, as long as it has end-actions, you can make a play all button AND keep the movie files separate. Without button overrides, you could still create a scene selection menu to go directly to any video you wanted, but because there would be no override command, the videos would retain their default end-action (and thus play the next movie when the current one reaches the end).
 
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