ReelDVD to Scenarist import question

[dltf90]

I've been using ReelDVD for a couple years. I have the opportunity to use Scenarist to add the finishing touches to my ReelDVD projects. I am able to get the script to export Reel and import to Scenarist. I've learned to set auto buttons and some rather simple command buttons. After that, I have a question.

ReelDVD doesn't support individual track times to display on dvd players. You get total count up time and total count down time. Since I main work on live music video material, I can't figure out how to get the individual track count up time and count down time to display. Is it how I'm setting up my projects?

My main video is one track in ReelDVD using chapter points to create the start id's to the individual tracks. The sound is in Dolby Digital 2.0 and sometimes 5.1 formats in addition. Do I need to break up each "track" as an individual file to get it to show the individual track times? Or am I missing a simple setting in Scenarist? Or is this a problem associated with using ReelDVD as the pre-authoring package that would be eliminated if I just used Scenarist from the very start?

[TRILIGHT]

What you need to do is create a new "Title" for each "music track". Right-click on the VTS folder in your Scenarist scenario and select "Add Title". Now, as long as you've set "scenes" of each section of the main video, you will have them listed down in the bottom window and can use those "scenes" in your scenario. Drop the parts into their respective "Title" folder. Essentially, what this does is allow you to use one big video clip but separate it out in the "scenario" such that it treats each section as an individual "music track" per se.

[dltf90]

Ok, I think I see how that works. I thought I was going to have to break my tracks into seperate files. That would be a huge pain in the ass considering some of my audio selections have 2x 2.0 and 1x 5.1 soundtrack. You can imagine the mind numbing horror of trying to cut out 20 tracks and 6 sources for each track! :scared:

[TRILIGHT]

Yeah, that would definitely be a pain. hehe ;) It is for this reason, in fact, that many of us use Scenarist for backing up DVD's. Many times there will be other PGC's made up of video and audio out of the main track. If you recreate this way, you aren't using up any extra space. If you were to extract by PGC and something was duplicated, you'd end up with FAR too much space being used! ;) Hope this helps ya out. Let us know how it turns out for you.