MPEG2 from Vegas to DVD
 

Hi everyone, I'm currently doing some editing for a gig that will take place this weekend.

Basically, it's short videos that will be appearing before some figure skating stunts.

I have about 14 MPEG2 videos that I want to burn into a DVD that can be read by a consumer DVD player. Then, I'd like to assign a chapter to each little MPEG2 so the tech that will be in charge of switching the video when the show will be live can do his job.

I guess that Nero might be just fine for that? Any other hints?

Thanks

You could just use DVD Architect. It will do that fine.

I find DVD Architect a bit hard to use..

It's not too bad. You could set it up in DVD Architect so that after each segment plays the "next" button is selected on a menu. Then you'd simply need to click enter, enter, enter... on the remote but it would go back to a menu between each video - although, techincally, it could be a DIFFERENT menu between each one.

i dont want a menu.. I want something that stops after each video, then, to go on the next one, you need to hit "next" on the remote or next chapter or whatever.

It's for a live gig.

Then you MUST have a menu. Otherwise, it won't stop. You have to have somewhere for it to go when it's "stopped". A menu is the most likely option.

Here is Edward's solution (alluded to earlier in this thread) that he posted some time ago which helped me out on a similar event.
You'll have to repeat it 14 times but it works extremely well !!!


Take 3 video clips. Drag them ALL to the menu.

Now double-click on the first video. Go to the "End Action" section.
Change the end-action "Destination" to be "Menu 1" (unless you changed the name of the menu).
Then change the "Destination Button" to be the second video.

Now go back to the menu and double-click on the second video.
Once again, go to the "End Action" sections, change the "Destination" to be "Menu 1", and the "Destination Button" to be the third video.

Once again, go back to the menu and double-click on the third video.
Go to the "End Action" section, change the "Destination" to be "Menu 1", and the "Destination Button" to be the first video.

That should do it!

Trust me, if *I* can use DVDA *you* use DVDA.

Try this:
From Vegas render your Video to Main Concept MPEG 2 DVDA setting.
From Vegas render you audio to AC3 but use the same file name you used for the video portion.

Now open DVDA
Go to explorer and find the VIDEO file you just made in Vegas and drag it to the workspace.
Vegas magically connects the audio to the video.

Repeat that process for all 14 of your clips. Yes, it'll crowd the work space, but at this point who cares?

Now hit the "Preview" button at the top. Chances are you'll like what you see.

You could hit "burn" at this point and probably get acceptable results.

You can start playing with it now, hit "Title Edit" and name your dvd. Shrink the thumbnails, rename the thumbnails, change the colors, just start exploring and you'll see it's not that bad.

There are better ways to get a DVD burnt, but I bet there aren't EASIER ways for your requirements.