90 AVI clips to one DVD - Vegas Video - authoring problem

[AirGibson]

I'm using WinDV and Sony Vegas Video to create my DVD of a trip to china from footage off of my DV camcorder. The WinDV transfer results in about 90 different AVI clips (some of which are very brief). I want to make a DVD that will simply continuously play through all of those clips like one big movie, although I will trim some of the clips.


When I add those AVI clips to the project in Vegas Video, it insists on doing one of two things:
1. It wants to have a menu entry for every single clip (resulting in ridiculous menus). When I delete the menu entry, it also deletes the clip from my project.

2. It adds all of the AVIs, but none of them are linked to each other which would require me to go through and link each clip to the next one. It also adds a chapter at the start of each clip, which I do not want and for whatever reason, cannot delete. I want to go in and specify where chapters are. I noticed that for every clip, the chapter at the start of the clip is "chapter 1" which makes me think it's treating each clip as a new title rather than linking them all together as a single title. I'm also betting that there would be a slight "pause" as the player moves from one clip to the next if I did it this way, but I'm only guessing. I definitely do not want a pause between each clip since many of them are only 10 seconds long. As I said, I want the clips to be played as one continuous movie.


I could probably re-capture the DV clips as one big AVI file, trim out the unwanted, and re-encode the final AVI if that's the only way to do it. But then I'm opening myself up to a loss of quality when re-encoding it, slightly out of sync audio, etc.... Maybe there's a way I could work with my current clips instead that I just don't know about?

[mikesbytes]

WinDV has a setting to decide how long between shoots is permitted before breaking the clip.

Goto Config and set the discontinuity threshold to a large number, I use 1000 seconds. Check the guides to see what the largest number you can do is, or if it can be set off.

[jtoolman2000]

You need the real Vegas not Vegas video or whatever you are using. I can add any number of clips to my time line and it will create a single movie.

Vegas does not create menus??? Architect does. Are you using the all in one vegas/DVD movie studio? Don't know what it's called but it is not the regular suite that sells for $$$

[AirGibson]

You're right. I'm using the all-in-one and the menu creation I'm refering to is inside of DVD architect. Sorry for the mix up.

I'll give vegas a whirl instead since it sounds like I can do what I want without issue judging by these replies.