Picture freezing in home made dvd

[EricM]

I have a digital video camera that records in the DV format.

When i copy my video from the camera to my PC i have one DV format AVI file for each time i stop/start recording on my camera. Alot of the time this means i have a whole load of 3 or 4 minuite video files.

I use tmpeg to convert all these avi files into mpeg2 dvd format.
I now have a whole load of mpg files.

The problem is when i burn these onto a dvd using ulead dvd movie factory there is a slight pause/freeze when playing the dvd where it would move from one file to another in the original recording. This happens on every dvd player i have tried of different brands and is very annoying.

If i combine all the mpeg files into one large file before authoring the dvd there is no freezing but then i am left without chapters unless i use some auto-detect or manually reinput the chapters.

It seems that when i add my lots of mpeg files into dvd movie factory it creates one "movie" for each file, instead of one chapter which i want it to do.

I hope you can understand what i mean sorry i couldnt explain it better.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

[guns1inger]

It is doing exactly what I would exepect it to do - creating a large number of titles from different movies. How is it supposed to know that these are all the same film ?

There is a difference between titles and chapters, as you have discovered. If you don't want the pauses, but still want chapters, then you have to create chapters in a single title.

[mikiem]

As you get the hang of it, might also look into editing software, maybe combining few clips here & there, & maybe software that can do playlists.

[TaoTeWingChun]

Might I suggest adding some nice transitions, and using the transition points as your chapter points?

For all of our home videos, this is how I link the various clips into one contiguous title, and on playback it adds a touch of quality to the finished DVD.

Hope this helps!

Cheers!

TTWC

[FulciLives]

It would be best to combine the AVI clips into a single AVI file. Any decent video editor should do this as DV AVI is easy to work with ... VirtualDub (a freeware program) should also be able to do it.

Then convert the single DV AVI into MPEG-2 DVD spec.

It is during the authoring stage where you insert chapters. It can be a pain-in-ass depending on the DVD Authoring program used but that is the "standard" way of doing it.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman