chapters newbie question

[nimrodim]

This is a real newbie question....
What would be the easiest fastest program to give me chapters and create my IFO VOBs etc...if i have the Audio and video and i want to add chapters only (no menues) at specific time intervals?

Thanks in advance
Nim

[nimrodim]

I want to add and say that ifoedit seems like the right answer...
Lets say i create the chapters at 5 minute intervals - i have to put in actually the frame number no?
But i have a question...
If the movie is 23.976 pulldowned to 29.976 with drop frame flag on then how do i calculate the 5 minute intervals (there are a few choices:
a. 29.976*60*5
b. 23.976*60*5
c. 30*60*5


Replys would be nice
Nim

[waldok]

What do you mean by "give me chapters" ?
DO you mean extracting the chapters from the movie ? or creating arbitrary chapters yourself ?

Your request is a bit vague and probably you'll get lots of information through the search engine...


Waldok:cool:

[nimrodim]

i meant creating arbitrary chapters myself at 5 minute intervals with ifoedit...
No havn't found much in the search engine about arbitrary chapters..only about chapter settings that are imported - and that is no use for me...

Nim :confused:

[waldok]

I see. You ca, manually edit a celltimes.txt to be imported when authoring with Ifoedit.

I'd rather use DoitFastForyou, which will demux all the streams you want from your Vobs, and then author with DVDmaestro, creating chapters by hand (Sorry I don't know about an automated function in Maestro to do a chapter every 5 minutes, but by hand it won't be too long).

As for the NTSC question, being a PAL user, I don't know.My guess would be to base every calculation on 29.97 fps. But if you insert chapters manuallty in Maestro, this doesn't matter at all, since you create each chapter with its timecode.

Waldok
:cool:

[nimrodim]

Well i found the answer myself:
If the movie is 23.976 pulldowned to 29.976 with drop frame flag on then to calculate time intervals use the following:

time interval(in seconds)*30 = frame number needed for ifoedit.

Yes thats 30! not 29.976 or 23.976.
Remember to put the frame numbers in ascending order in the file called "CellTimes.txt" and add a zero to each frame number at the end as ifoedit for some stupid unkown reason deletes the last digit of any frame number it reads.

Well hope this helps people who author simply in IFoedit to put in chapters only...

Nim
:)