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burningman
26th June 2009, 11:23
Hello everybody,

after having been a "passive only reading member" for a while this is my first post.

Maybe somebody can give me some advice.
I've already asked the same question in another forum but couldn't get any helping answer until now.


So here is what i've got:
an exercise DVD with basically one single title containing approx. 40 chapters. Each chapter is between 3 to 10 minutes long.
The only two buttons in the menu let me select between watching the film with or without background music.
No chapter or scene selection or anything else.
With the "skip" button of my player i can jump from one chapter to the beginning of the next chapter.
So keeping those chapter marks is essential.

Now somewhere in the middle of the film at chapter 25 a group of new and different exercises start.
When i want to watch these exercises i have to skip through the DVD until i reach to the desired position.

What i want to do is to create a new title and related button (in the menu) for those exercises so that i can jump directly from the start menu to that position.

Can anybody give some hints how to manage that? Keeping in mind that the exact chapter marks have to be kept.

Many thanks in advance :)

Ghitulescu
1st July 2009, 20:15
The advice I was myself given was:

1. Save the chapter marks with IfoEdit (as a backup)
2. Use DVD Shrink in Reauthoring mode to keep the main movie only (chapters are maintained)
3. Use Title Writer (default settings) to create a TopMenu + ChapterMenu.

Now you have direct acces (through Chapter Menu) to all the scenes.