Annoying Maestro behavior

[Nogami]

Ok, I'm working on converting a rip of the Das Boot flipper to a single-sided DVD-R (3hrs 14min... Yikes!). Anyway, I ripped and encoded the side 1 video, the side 2 video, and the credits from side 2 as seperate .m2v files.

Problem comes when trying to load them into Maestro and insert chapters/titles. If you load multiple video assets onto a video track in Maestro, then import subtitle/chapter files, they only load to the end of the first video asset on the video track. (half way through the film).

Tried multiple different methods of getting the titles/chapters to import, but no luck. Best I can come up with so far is doing an extremely low-quality encode (500kbps) of the entire movie stitched together to drop on the timeline, drop the titles/chapters on that, and replace the video afterwards.

Incase you're wondering why I didn't encode it as one single video track... I suppose I could've if I had known about the problem at the time, but it didn't become evident until I tried to start finishing the authoring project.

Probly not a real question here, just wanted to let other people know to save them some frustration.

N.

[mikeathome]

Hi,

YES, I know the shit, this is obviously one thing to improve in this nice SW BUT most likely will never happen.
I'd find out that if the second part's timecode starts exactly at the end of the first part then the chapterpoints will be inserted into second (third ... part) as well.

I am not aware of a tool which can patch timecodes in MPEG streams, this might be a solution.

BUT I've a better time preserving option for you:
- create a black MPEG encoding over say 3hours, that one can be used for all this chapter insertions

Unfortunately it does not work with a still picture drawn to full extend. Maestro does not import chapters on this still.

mike

[auenf]

why dont you put the 2nd half into its own VTS?

Enf...

[Nogami]

Tried that, but for some reason a couple of the DVD players I tried it on seemed to have to seek back to the start of the DVD at the end of VTS1, presumably to find out where to go next. Probably just a crappy DVD player, but I wanted to figure out a method of making it work properly in one asset.

Ah well, it worked in the end :P