Pausing between chapters in DVD Pro

I would like to have my finished DVD pause automatically pause between chapters, then resume when I press play on the controller. Simple concept. Can I set that up in DVD Pro or is it done in FCP? Thanks

I set chapter markers at the beginning of each section. There are 5 sections with a transition between each one. I put the chapter marker in the center of each transition where the image was black.
To create a pause in DVD Pro I selected a chapter marker which activated the navigation menu where I could select Playback Options. Under Playback Options I selected 'Pause after each VOBU'.
That didn't seem to work at first until I selected 'Wait: Infinite'.
It worked perfectly in my Simulator. I was thrilled. I burned the DVD without making any other changes and then had the problems on the finished DVD. Should I save the project or something before burning? That's where I am. thanks for your time!
Les

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Unwanted pause between chapters

Here's the problem. I am using DVD Studio Pro and there are unwanted pauses between chapters when played on SOME dvd players. The layout is such that hitting the "play movie" button activates track 1, which I have set different chapter markers in. Each chapter marker is set to endjump to the next without pause. The pause only occurs on some DVD players, not all. I don't know if the problem is in my layout/programming, settings that I am unaware of, or quality of dvd's or dvd burner (G4 powerbook superdrive). Any help would be sweet.

The problem is that your setting those end jump between chapters. No need for that - a player will play through the chapters automatically.

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I like using iDVD when I don't need a lot of menues.
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What I need to know if it is a dramatic different in quality that I should use DVD Pro instead of iDVD.
If you want a DRAMATIC improvement in quality, shoot sharp, high quality content like Hollywood (usually on film) and have it compressed by high quality hardware encoders.
There is a good reason Hollywood DVDs look better than iDVD/DVD Studio Pro DVDs.
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Ok So I am making a DVD of sperate pieces and making each piece a chapter, I have the stories and all that for the chapter settings, and I have the "PLay All" section. But Id like to create a pause on the chapters in the play all section, because its like one piece goes right into the next, and its kinda hard to tell when one ends, and the other begins. How Do I do that?? Thanx

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Chapters in DVD studio pro

I used markers in DVD studio pro to create my chapters. My problem is that I only need the chapters for the second "Chapters" menu and need the video to play through on the main menu, but right now there is a slight pause between each chapter as they advance. I thought about duplicating my main video track and having one with chapters and one without, but then my dvd gets too full. What should I do?
I would appreciate any advice!
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Hi:
I thought about duplicating my main video track and having one with chapters and one without
You can get the same feature creating a Story from the main Track. You select the track and click on Add Story button. Double click on the new Story and take from the Track Markers pane the cgapters you want your Story plays. You can create so many Stories from the track as play lists you need.
Visit this place and you'll find a tutorial for creating stories: www.dvdstepbystep.com
And you can read in the DVDSP manual about stories, you'll solve a lot of this kind of navigation issues this way.

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Is it possible to make chapters in DVD studio pro? If so, how? If not, what program can i use?

Click in the timeline above the track and you will see the upside down purple triangle which is the marker

Burned DVD pauses between pictures when played on TV/DVD player

When I burn a dvd using picture transitions and play it on a TV/DVD player, it pauses for about 3 seconds between every picture and says "searching for signal". How can I burn a dvd to play on TV using the transitions without having the pause between each picture?

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A. Did You use SlideShow function in iDVD - It is limited to 99 photos per Show - you can have more than one on a DVD
B. What brand of DVD did You use ? Cheap ones as Memorex, NoNames etc usually DO NOT Work - I only use Verbatim
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Hi,
There's anyone knows how to eliminate the pause that occur in between chapters in a playlist of a Story? I've been making a long movie dvd with lot of chapters and create more stories from that. At the moment of jump between chapters (as I decided in the playlist) it hang for a half second.. Is not fluid at all. Am I going to put the chapter division only in black frames with no sound?
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Is the problem happening on just one player or on every one you try? If just the one then its probably a very specific player incompatibility - some of the cheaper players are pretty loose in there adhereance to the DVD spec.
The only work around I can suggest is write scripts for your endjumps and target the script as the story endjump. Sounds a bit weird I know I recently incorrectly wrote a series of scripts for a play all function - it jumped from my play all button, through 12 tracks, and back to the button with barely a flicker so might be worth a try.
Good luck
B

Video play cut-out in DVD pro

Hi-
I have a few video clips that have been compressed in H.264 that I wanted to put on a DVD so that I can display them on a TV. I transcoded them to MPEG-2 using compressor 2 then imported them into DVD pro 4 and placed them on track V1. When I attempt to play it in the viewer it does fine for the first clip but when it crosses the boundary into the second clip the video disappears although the sound continues. If I pause the video at that point the picture reappears then plays normally until the playhead hits the next boundary. If I drag the playhead manually there is no problem in the video display. The video cut-out occurs in the simulator as well. I have checked the time codes and there are no gaps between the clips.
Thanks for your help.
1.8 GHz dual processor G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

This problem crops up from time to time. I sort of remember someone having a reason for it but I can't find it right now. It may have something to do with the audio and video clips not being the same length, but I could be off on that.
Nevertheless, it doesn't matter much, the problem only shows up within DVDSP. Once you build your project, which creates the Video_TS folder, you can open it in DVD Player application to prove to yourself that nothing is wrong. When you format the DVD it will also be OK.

Continuous play between songs without a pause between tracks

I have a lot of "mixed" cds which I have uploaded into my ipod. The cd's feature many songs mixed together into one continuous flow. Each track is marked (1-?) so you may select a specific song instead of their only being one long track. The problem is that when uploaded into my itunes (and ipod), when the cd is played, there is a pause between the tracks (like on normal cds) which obviously breaks the flow of the music. Is there any way around this?

One other option that I've begun using to separate tracks in a cd with songs that flow from one to the next (Dream Theater anyone?) yet retain the artists vision is to use Apple's Chapter Tool and use this in conjunction with a tool like Scriptbuilder's . "Podcastenhancer". (There are other utilities but this is the one I personally use.)
What this does is allow you to rip the cd with all tracks joined and then add "Chapters" to the file to indicate where each track should start. Created for use in building podcasts (like the iTunes New Music Tuesday podcast) where you want the content broken up, the combination of these tools will help you separate your songs and add album artwork at the same time. What you end up with is one long continuous song file with the ability to jump from track to track on your iPod and select the appropriate "song" in iTunes from the chapter list that appears when the file is played.
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DVD Pro Is EXREMELY SLOW and slow system

I am running DVD Pro Studio on a PowerMac G5 with 4 meg of RAM
It is painfully slow... the inspector freezes when I try to show shapes..
loading assets in stills (granted they are big files) is beyond painful
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... loading assets in stills (granted they are big files)
If your sytem is being slowed up by large graphics - which DVD SP doesn't like - try making them the right size first.
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Pause between inro and menu

Hi!
I have made an intro to my menu (animating the menu in).
But there is a little thing that is enoying. The pause between the intro and the menu that happends when the dvd are played on a dvd player.
I have heard about something that is called VTS (Video Title Set)
My question is: Is this possible to configurate is Encore dvd 2??
(excuse my bad english. I did not have a dictionary right now ;-) )
About VTS (from the Apple dvd studio por manual):
VTS Editor
The VTS Editor allows you to verify and control the VTS (Video Title Set) structure of your project. Using the VTS Editor, you are able to manually assign elements to VTS blocks. This makes it possible for you to optimize the final DVDs layout so that when its played there are minimum pauses due to the player having to move between elements in different parts of the disc.
When you play a DVD and a jump must occur, such as when a menu button is selected that jumps to a tracks chapter marker, there is a slight pause while the DVD players laser locates where to jump to on the disc.
- If the track is in a different VTS block than the menu, the laser must first jump to the video manager files, and from there on to the tracks VTS.
- If the track is in the same VTS block as the menu, the laser is able to go directly to the track.
You can improve a discs playback performance by keeping related elements together whenever possible. For example, you should place the scripts used with a specific track in the same VTS as the track.
Since menus often link to multiple tracks or slideshows, you will not be able to keep them together with everything they can jump to. However, you can minimize the time a DVD player spends jumping from the menu to the video manager files by keeping the menus in the first VTS, which is physically located close to the video manager files.
Anders

Anders.
You cannot configure projects in quite this manner with EncoreDVD - and in all honesty, this is pure sophistry on Apple's part.
The way Encore works is to turn the timelines into VTS
i in the order in which you create the timelines in your project.
This cannot be altered later, but would make a fine feature request
http://www.adobe.com/support/feature.html
There will
i always
be a slight lag between a movie and a menu, no matter what application you author in - even Scenarist has this, as the player is jumping from a Movie into Menu Space. In Encore, you can minimize this lag by creating the intro sequence as a motion menu, and then using a transition to the main menu - this would keep both your intro and the main menu in Menu Space, and very close together indeed.
It's probably the best solution for you - much better than DVDSP, that's for sure!

Audio problems when moving between chapters

My movie consists of imported video from my camera. I have a two songs playing over the video - one at the beginning of the first chapter and one at the beginning of the last chapter. When I play the movie straight through, the audio works perfectly fine. When I skip between chapters the two with songs play correctly. However the chapters that have the original audio are distorted - the video seems to pause or stall out and the audio doesn't play for several seconds. Does anyone know what my problem might be and how to fix it?

SteveG, I don't believe it is an 1820m issue at all. Do you have a single or multi-core processor? This behavior did not occur on my old P4 3GHz system. I only started observing it when I built this quad core system about a month ago.
By the way, today I replaced my mobo with one of the same brand and model and the behavior still exists (to rule out a defective mobo.) I've also tried 3 different video cards (although they were all NVIDIA) and the problem remains no matter which card I use.
Durin,
As I was typing the first post, I verified that I was using the Emu 1820m ASIO driver in both Edit and Multitrack views. (As I was writing it, it crossed my mind that I might have it set to something else in one mode.) However, it is the same in both.
One thing I forgot to mention is that there is one more app that behaves similarly (Reaper). All other apps (Sonar, FL Studio, eXT, Ableton Live, Sound Forge, Wavosaur) do not show this behavior and are rock solid.
If you'd like to see my thread about this behavior in Reaper (and others who can reproduce it) see here: http://www.cockos.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19036
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Pause between clips after rendering

I have a sequence with several video clips. I shot this entirely with a Canon 5DMarkII so the video format is H.264 mov.
Playback in the canvas/timeline is great until I render. Once I render- either the entire sequence or just a single transition- the playback pauses/stutters between clips. The stutter happens anywhere on the timeline, not isolated to the transition. Intra-clip playback is great, just when it gets to the end of the clip, it hiccups before moving to the next one.
If I delete the render files, playback goes back to normal.
I am editing on a new macbook pro, with an external firewire800 drive as scratch disk. I originally created the project on a new iMac with the same firewire drive and never had this problem. Its just since I have moved to my laptop.
Adjusting RT settings does not seem to correct this problem. Either does moving scratch disk locally or to another drive.
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I'm having the same problem using the canon 5d Mark 2 with final cut... it's really odd... can't put a finger on the problem... i checked the format of the sequence, along with the video clip... they both match... even the playback in the canvas i can notice the pause... i tried exporting a little portion of it just to preview, and the playback was smoother, but still noticed the pause between cuts...
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