No timecode on DVDs authored with Scenarist

[Crazyjoe]

Hi Guys!

I really need your help! Around christmas i - finally - bought a dvd burner. For the beginning i burned some trailer collections on DVD (all trailers ripped from other DVDs). Until i had the burner i authored all my DVD projects on miniDVD, which only were playable on my Cyberhome standalone (besides the PC ;) ), and that Player always shows me the timecode.

Now I play my DVDs on my Pionner Standalone, and there I don't have any timecodes! The Player only shows me "Play" in the display.

I can't imagine, what I did wrong during authoring... :(

[Crazyjoe]

BTW, the videos are all PAL. I don't know if I have to look out for special settings in Scenarist regarding the timecode... :confused:

Hasn't anyone any clue? :(

I would appreciate any help.

[digitalvideo]

It's just a problem in the way that you put your video in the scenario editor. For example : multivideo on one title !!!

Send me one of your project and i can modify it for you !!!

[Navellint]

hi,
Just posting because i want an answer too.

I've authored some trailer-dvds (PAL and NTSC) with Scenarist and still have no clue what to do with the time-codes. Sometimes i get a trailer w/o time code, sometimes it starts counting from 31'40" or something and some have the right code without me doing anything special in Scenarist. So this part beats me.

Also i've authored some dvds of cartoons i recorded on VHS years ago. I used virtual-Dub and TMPGenc 2.58 to make mpeg2 of the captured avis. TMPG gives me a .m2v and .mp2 which i import into Scenarist as m2v and ac3. If i make a seamless PGC of the videos (all 6'35") in 'scenario editor' then the final timecode starts at 0'00" and ends at 2h45' something (4Mbit CQ) while of course i can skip back and forth to chapters. Still not doing anything special.

[digitalvideo]

May be Crazyjoe can explain to you now !!! He have learn a lot of think !!!

But i can say :

never put the second video on the pgc but on the pg !!!!!! if you whant time code !!!!!

[Crazyjoe]

@ Navellint

digitalvideo is right, now I can explain it to you. He's right, you should never put more than one PGC in one titel. I had two PGCs in each title, one was the real video, one a dummy to perform a jump command.

I don't know, if you have the same problem. In my case the dummy file was useless, because Scenarist automaticly jumps from title to title, if you don't stop him via user prohibitions. If you really need that dummy pgc, put it NOT in the title as the last PGC, but as another program in the last PGC (which is your video)! This will create another cell, to which you can add a cell command if necessary.

EDIT:

I forgot: the timecode problems result of more than one pgc in a title!

[Navellint]

Splendid! So scenarist is creating timecodes after all, not some exotic setting/program. I have to admit those trailer-dvds where a real jungle of all kinds of stuff i was trying at the time and work too! (like 32 menus, wide/fullscreen, animated subtitles/menus, easter eggs, etc). The cartoon-dvds were 1 PGC per title (all videos dropped on top of the first pgc and made seamless), so that's why they were correct (22x6'35"=2h45' namely). Cheers!