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Before I made this posting I purchased "Let's Create DVD" from Canopus
and unfortunately it doesn't do what I want. I looked at the specs for
DVD lab as well, and also DVD Author and didn't see anything referring
to what I stated. Perhaps I didn't fully explain what I am in search
of.

OK, every DVD authoring program I have tried will not allow me to
insert multiple video files into the timeline with each video
representing its own chapter. For instance if I insert 5 videos into a
timeline, I would like to see chapters 1 - 5 assigned instead of each
video being assigned chapter 1. This is what I encountered in DVD Lab
and DVD Workshop. What I ended up doing was rendering all 5 video files
into 1 big video file and then assign the chapters that way which is
very time consuming. There's got to be a program that will allow me to
assign consecutive chapters to multiple video files before burning to
DVD, basically eliminating the need to render multiple files together.

Thanks to those who previously replied to the last posting.
rich

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Rockroll wrote:
> Before I made this posting I purchased "Let's Create DVD" from Canopus
> and unfortunately it doesn't do what I want. I looked at the specs for
> DVD lab as well, and also DVD Author and didn't see anything referring
> to what I stated. Perhaps I didn't fully explain what I am in search
> of.
>
> OK, every DVD authoring program I have tried will not allow me to
> insert multiple video files into the timeline with each video
> representing its own chapter. For instance if I insert 5 videos into a
> timeline, I would like to see chapters 1 - 5 assigned instead of each
> video being assigned chapter 1. This is what I encountered in DVD Lab
> and DVD Workshop. What I ended up doing was rendering all 5 video files
> into 1 big video file and then assign the chapters that way which is
> very time consuming. There's got to be a program that will allow me to
> assign consecutive chapters to multiple video files before burning to
> DVD, basically eliminating the need to render multiple files together.
>
> Thanks to those who previously replied to the last posting.
> rich
>
Not sure exactly what you are after, but with DVDit Version 5, you can
put 5 or however many videos either on a menu or without a menu, and
have the disc play them consecutively or have them stop each time or
return to the menu. Please describe exactly what you want the disc to do
when you stick it in the player, and maybe I can be more specific.

Gary Eickmeier

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"Rockroll" <kingdom@urgentmail.com> wrote in message
news:1112155121.285648.281330@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Before I made this posting I purchased "Let's Create DVD" from Canopus
> and unfortunately it doesn't do what I want. I looked at the specs for
> DVD lab as well, and also DVD Author and didn't see anything referring
> to what I stated. Perhaps I didn't fully explain what I am in search
> of.
>
> OK, every DVD authoring program I have tried will not allow me to
> insert multiple video files into the timeline with each video
> representing its own chapter. For instance if I insert 5 videos into a
> timeline, I would like to see chapters 1 - 5 assigned instead of each
> video being assigned chapter 1. This is what I encountered in DVD Lab
> and DVD Workshop. What I ended up doing was rendering all 5 video files
> into 1 big video file and then assign the chapters that way which is
> very time consuming. There's got to be a program that will allow me to
> assign consecutive chapters to multiple video files before burning to
> DVD, basically eliminating the need to render multiple files together.
>
> Thanks to those who previously replied to the last posting.
> rich
>

If you add a file to a "Track"/title in TMPGEnc DVD Author (TDA)
it will be Chapter 1. If you then add a file it will be Chapter 2, ect....
If you add five files to a track they will be Chapters 1 through 5.
If you use control-A to select a folder full of .mpg files; you will
add them in the order they are in the folder, each one a Chapter.
(If you want to change the order or add more Chapter points you
can.)

Is this not "a program that will allow me to assign consecutive
chapters to multiple video files before burning to DVD" ?

By the way, there should never be any need to "render into one
big file".

Luck;
Ken

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"Rockroll" <kingdom@urgentmail.com> wrote in message
news:1112155121.285648.281330@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Before I made this posting I purchased "Let's Create DVD" from Canopus
> and unfortunately it doesn't do what I want. I looked at the specs for
> DVD lab as well, and also DVD Author and didn't see anything referring
> to what I stated. Perhaps I didn't fully explain what I am in search
> of.
>
> OK, every DVD authoring program I have tried will not allow me to
> insert multiple video files into the timeline with each video
> representing its own chapter. For instance if I insert 5 videos into a
> timeline, I would like to see chapters 1 - 5 assigned instead of each
> video being assigned chapter 1. This is what I encountered in DVD Lab
> and DVD Workshop. What I ended up doing was rendering all 5 video files
> into 1 big video file and then assign the chapters that way which is
> very time consuming. There's got to be a program that will allow me to
> assign consecutive chapters to multiple video files before burning to
> DVD, basically eliminating the need to render multiple files together.
>
> Thanks to those who previously replied to the last posting.
> rich
>

You explain it well. NOW DOWNLOAD THE DVD AUTHOR TRIAL.

If it does NOT do what you want, give us another thread, really explaining
what you really want to do.

DVD author does this NATIVELY.

What do you not understand here?? What is beyond your cognitive grasp?

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"Rockroll" <kingdom@urgentmail.com> wrote in message
news:1112155121.285648.281330@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Before I made this posting I purchased "Let's Create DVD" from Canopus
> and unfortunately it doesn't do what I want. I looked at the specs for
> DVD lab as well, and also DVD Author and didn't see anything referring
> to what I stated. Perhaps I didn't fully explain what I am in search
> of.

<--SNIP-->

>
> Thanks to those who previously replied to the last posting.
> rich
>

Try this, Rich. Don't describe to us what you think should happen, describe
what you want the DVD to look like when it hits the player. You seem to be
focusing on the process much more than the result.

I personally don't care if there are 1500 files so long as it plays the way
I want it to in the player.

There are several authoring packages and several techniques that can get the
result you want. Maybe using a package you have with a different twechnique
will get what you want.

So tell us what you want the DVD to look like, we'll tell you the process.

Tom P.

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Many thanks to the replies that were received on this posting....

I want 2 menu pages, with 5 thumbnails on each page. Each thumbnail
representing a chapter of course and therefore upon clicking on any one
of them will play that particular video file. So as you can see I am
working with 10 video files. I am used to rendering these files into
one file where I would have to make 10 chapter points. Hope this makes
sense.
rich

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"Rockroll" <kingdom@urgentmail.com> wrote in message
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> Many thanks to the replies that were received on this posting....
>
> I want 2 menu pages, with 5 thumbnails on each page. Each thumbnail
> representing a chapter of course and therefore upon clicking on any one
> of them will play that particular video file. So as you can see I am
> working with 10 video files. I am used to rendering these files into
> one file where I would have to make 10 chapter points. Hope this makes
> sense.
> rich
>

Great! Do you want to continue from one "chapter" to the next or is it
sufficient to simply play the chapter and return to the menu?

This looks pretty simple and now that we understand some of the guys here
should be able to give you step-by-step instructions on how to do this.

I'd like to help more but I use Encore DVD and that may be a bit more than
you want to spend ($550 or so) just to get this done. I'm sure there are
free tools that do this.

Go easy on him guys.

Tom P.

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What you are asking for is probably not what most people want. DVD authoring
software does not automatically create a "chapter" just because the user
places a video in the project. The nature of DVD authoring is to have a
single long format video and then "chapters" are chosen from certain points
in the video by the user. Anyone can place single video files in a project
and then have a button to choose which of these to play. For any program to
automatically do what you are asking would require the programmers to write
the program the way you think, which is not the normal convention for
creating a DVD. Sorry, but even in this case you have to do at least "some"
of the work. Is it really that difficult to do "some" of the work on your
own?

"Rockroll" <kingdom@urgentmail.com> wrote in message
news:1112155121.285648.281330@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Before I made this posting I purchased "Let's Create DVD" from Canopus
> and unfortunately it doesn't do what I want. I looked at the specs for
> DVD lab as well, and also DVD Author and didn't see anything referring
> to what I stated. Perhaps I didn't fully explain what I am in search
> of.
>
> OK, every DVD authoring program I have tried will not allow me to
> insert multiple video files into the timeline with each video
> representing its own chapter. For instance if I insert 5 videos into a
> timeline, I would like to see chapters 1 - 5 assigned instead of each
> video being assigned chapter 1. This is what I encountered in DVD Lab
> and DVD Workshop. What I ended up doing was rendering all 5 video files
> into 1 big video file and then assign the chapters that way which is
> very time consuming. There's got to be a program that will allow me to
> assign consecutive chapters to multiple video files before burning to
> DVD, basically eliminating the need to render multiple files together.
>
> Thanks to those who previously replied to the last posting.
> rich
>

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Yes I would like to go from one chapter to the next automatically. But
the user can always choose to go to the menu and play a specific video.
I have been able to do this aspect. The part that I am trying to cut
down on is the time it takes to insert chapter points, finding the
exact point where one video ends and where the next one starts. And
this is the result of rendering these video files into one large file
and then bringing it into DVD workshop for the DVD creation process. I
was hoping that a program could recognize the multiple video files (in
MPEG-2) and assign chapters to them automatically without me having to
insert chapter points. Thanks for taking the time.

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In article <1112197325.536261.208890@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
kingdom@urgentmail.com says...
> Subject: Re: In Search of a DVD Authoring Solution pt.II
> From: "Rockroll" <kingdom@urgentmail.com>
> Newsgroups: rec.video.desktop
>
> Yes I would like to go from one chapter to the next automatically. But
> the user can always choose to go to the menu and play a specific video.
> I have been able to do this aspect. The part that I am trying to cut
> down on is the time it takes to insert chapter points, finding the
> exact point where one video ends and where the next one starts. And
> this is the result of rendering these video files into one large file
> and then bringing it into DVD workshop for the DVD creation process. I
> was hoping that a program could recognize the multiple video files (in
> MPEG-2) and assign chapters to them automatically without me having to
> insert chapter points. Thanks for taking the time.
>
>
>

So do you have seperate files for each chapter or not?
--
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Chris Phillipo - Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
http://www.ramsays-online.com

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Yes I have 10 videos which I would like to 10 chapters

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In article <1112199247.227705.109440@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
kingdom@urgentmail.com says...
> Yes I have 10 videos which I would like to 10 chapters
>
>

Well in most programs I've used you would just load each video as a
chapter or a title. Sounds more like you want each one to be a title
with a "play all at once" button. Do you want each video to be
selectable in the menu?
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Chris Phillipo - Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
http://www.ramsays-online.com

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Yes I would like each video to be selectable in the menu as well. When
I inserted videos in the past, it would assign each video chapter 1.
Thus when looking at the DVD player screen the first chapter is 1 and
then when I forward to the next it would still say 1 instead of 2., and
so on...

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Not to be a jerk but this is very possible with Encore and some other
authoring tools.

It's the Play All button. In Encore 1.5 they have a playlist you can assign
to a button and it will play the list from top to bottom.

However, I think $550 for Encore is more than this project calls for... but,
considering how specialised this is, it might be the only option.

The question then becomes not "Is it really that difficult to do some of the
work on your own?" but rather "Is it really worth $550 or so to have a
program do the work for you?"

Tom P.

"Digital Video Solutions" <video@digitalvideosolutions.com> wrote in message
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> What you are asking for is probably not what most people want. DVD
> authoring software does not automatically create a "chapter" just because
> the user places a video in the project. The nature of DVD authoring is to
> have a single long format video and then "chapters" are chosen from
> certain points in the video by the user. Anyone can place single video
> files in a project and then have a button to choose which of these to
> play. For any program to automatically do what you are asking would
> require the programmers to write the program the way you think, which is
> not the normal convention for creating a DVD. Sorry, but even in this case
> you have to do at least "some" of the work. Is it really that difficult to
> do "some" of the work on your own?
>
> "Rockroll" <kingdom@urgentmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1112155121.285648.281330@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>> Before I made this posting I purchased "Let's Create DVD" from Canopus
>> and unfortunately it doesn't do what I want. I looked at the specs for
>> DVD lab as well, and also DVD Author and didn't see anything referring
>> to what I stated. Perhaps I