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horstherby
19th June 2002, 12:28
I'm trying to create a compilation of my favorite band's live acts... i want the disc to have the same layout (track order) as the corresponding studio album BUT i want it to chose them out of a collection of different live songs... is something like that possible with scenarist?
horstherby
20th June 2002, 10:55
No recommendations?
auenf
20th June 2002, 15:10
uhh, explain it a little more/better, i cant work out what you want exactly, altho im half asleep...

Enf...
horstherby
20th June 2002, 15:17
Think about a CDA... you've got let's say 14 tracks of music in a fixed order.

What I try to create is a DVD which behaves like this CDA... having 14 "Chapters" with exactly the same songs(per name) as this CDA BUT these 14 Tracks should be chosen out of a pool of hundereds of different live tracks out of my bootleg collection.
tom para
20th June 2002, 20:03
I figure either scenarist or spruce can do it using the random function in command sequence. Never done it myself, though.
auenf
21st June 2002, 16:02
Originally posted by horstherby
Think about a CDA... you've got let's say 14 tracks of music in a fixed order.

What I try to create is a DVD which behaves like this CDA... having 14 "Chapters" with exactly the same songs(per name) as this CDA BUT these 14 Tracks should be chosen out of a pool of hundereds of different live tracks out of my bootleg collection.

ok, if i understand you properly:

the DVD physically will have hundreds of audio on it...

when you hit 'play,' it only plays a 'select/random' 14 ?

to do that just use a counter and a GPRM and a random chapter selection, and at the end of each chapter send it to the command sequence, reply if you need more info.

Enf...
horstherby
21st June 2002, 16:16
Hey... I think i understand (there's still hope)

Thanks a lot, I will play a little with these Gprms --- will give a proper feedback later
horstherby
21st June 2002, 18:25
Well... it seems that I'm not as smart as hoped.
How would you arrange the songs? All different versions of one song into one pgp (with chapters) or should i use seperate vts' for each group of songs? I only seem to let the DVD pick 14 randomn songs out of all, so how can i let the player distinguish between the different song "pools"?!
tom para
21st June 2002, 21:58
No need for diff song "pools". Each song in 1 PG and all into 1 PGC. Separate VTS's makes navigation programming harder.