inserting chapters in scenarist

[bezerk]

Hi

I encode video with CCE, add AC3 and subtitles (without OCR) put
everything together in scenarist and voila great looking and working DVD.
There is one problem, chapters, I really don't get it how to insert them in my project ?
Chapters can be at "random" points, let's say every 10 minutes, just so if I want to go to the end of DVD I don't have to FFW for half an hour or type in time to jump to ?
How can I do it ?

[cupid59]

In Scenarist you can add chapters to the track, pointing the little slider for view (at bottom of track) in the point you want mark chapter, and click a little icon with shape of "ciack".
You need to make all this AFTER drag in scenario editor your movie. You can put chapters on every I frame (every 1/2 second).
Cupid

[bezerk]

thank you very much for your answer.
I will try as soon as CCE finishes.
Encoding on my Duron800@1000 takes way to long.
I've got my eye on dual athlon setup :)

[dp]

Tell me something ... When you make your chapters and then drag them in your scenario editor and make a simulation...press the next button to move on in the next chapter.. Notice the sound starts again from the start of the video? If yes how can I fix this ?:(

[bezerk]

I have never tried simulation in CCE, I always create image, load it as virtual DVD with daemon tools and test it properly in powerDVD

[Navellint]

Originally posted by cupid59
In Scenarist you can add chapters to the track, pointing the little slider for view (at bottom of track) in the point you want mark chapter, and click a little icon with shape of "ciack".
You need to make all this AFTER drag in scenario editor your movie. You can put chapters on every I frame (every 1/2 second).
Cupid

Cupid: I just had to rephrase this. First create chapters and THEN drag your movie into scenario-editor.
And the 'ciack'-thing is called a clapper i think. It is used on set to clap in front of the camera when the sound is rolling. When the sound-editor in postproduction needs to sync the sound with the film, he can look at the clapper closing and searches for the 'ciack' on the soundtrack. Then the sound is synch. Nice huh?

dp: If you made a track with video+audio and then created proper scenes/chapters and THEN drag the track into scenario-editor, you should not have an audio problem. At least I don't. Ask if it still doesn't work.

bezerk: dp is talking about a simulation in Scenarist, not CCE ;-)

[bezerk]

:D

me to, I must be confused,I have no clue why i typed CCE instead of scenarist.

[wfn1]

why not simply use scenchap, the details are outlined in CCE & IFOEdit guide.

[dp]

Navellint thanks for the tip.. Yes it works.. And I noticed that only when you make simulation, the audio starts from the begging of the chapter when you press the next button (in scenarist). If you burn the dvd and test it on a dvd player you will notice that the chapters are fine with the audio..

Maybe because I dont have a MPEG2 decoding card I have this with the audio..

Thanks again

[Navellint]

wfn1:
i'll try it, but does it work with privately produced material? I mean, i do not really want to backup existing dvd's, but make my own stuff incl chapters.

dp:
i don't have a mpeg-2 card and do have a p3-450MHz. I get 3 fps, the sound works fine, but i can't really sync the subtitles in simulation. So for that i create a layout to check whether the subs are ok. This sucks. I would like to know if upgrading to 2.4 GHz will solve it.

bezerk:
I don't use daemontools, i just make powerDVD play the video_ts. There's no need for imgtools or daemontools i think.

[wfn1]

Navellint,

Unfortunately it's only for ripping premade DVDs, it can extract chapter points from original IFO files and add them to the Scenarist Script. In the beginning I saw the guy trying to reauthor something with subtitles so I thought it was a commercial DVD.