[MacDV] Re: Chapters in a DVD

[Laine Lee]

If you want an end point, I think all you need to do is copy the segment you
want and paste it into a new movie in Quicktime Player, then bring that into
iDVD. I don't think you need to flatten it, that is, make two separate
copies of the redundant data. You can save the copy so that it just points
to whatever is being referenced in the original. I think iDVD will encode
two copies of the overlapping data, however.

> From: Erick Camp <campej at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: "Macintosh Digital Video List"<MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:54:21 -0700
> To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: [MacDV] Re: Chapters in a DVD
> 
> 
> On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 06:10  PM, Lanny Cotler wrote:
> 
>> My question: Can I give them a DVD (created by iDVD) that has
>> "chapters" in
>> it? Chapters being specific segments that they can download per the
>> script
>> of the program?
> 
> When I  tried Chapter is iDVD, what I found that I ended up with was a
> pointer to a starting position.  In other words, the Chapter pointer
> allow one to jump to a point in a movie and play from that point to the
> end of the movie.  In other words, you do not have an ability to set an
> end point other than the end of the entire movie.
> 
>> If iDVD cannot do it, can DVD STudio Pro? I have DVD SP v 1.5 but have
>> never used it.
> 
> DVDSP 2.02 does an excellent job of setting loop segments that one can
> control.  This seems to be one of several differentiating features
> between iDVD and DVD SP.  SP 1.5 probably has the same capability, but
> I never was able to learn it well enough to use those kinds of advanced
> features.  2.02 has a really easy interface and makes the task much
> easier.
> 
> 
> Erick
> 
> 
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