DVD Architect - chainlink titles

[couchdirector]

This is the long explanation, at the moment I am making DVDs made up of short 10~ min clips or so, about 13 clips per DVD. Each has to be edited a certain way, so it takes me about 20 or less minutes to do that per clip. So I save each of these as separate projects and when I'm finished I import them all into a final project, which I will then render into both the video and the audio to use these with DVD Architect, unfortunately the video takes about 8+ hours to do on my ancient system. The biggest problem is that my "client" (a family member, they seem to be more demanding) needs to see the finished DVD before authorizing the copies, and there is always a minor gripe about a specific clip which they demand be changed, so that means 8 more hours of rendering and however long DVD Architect decides to take just to edit the one clip.

So now I'm now considering rendering each clip by itself into DVD acceptable format (mpeg2,pcm) then importing them each as separate titles within the DVD, so that if I have to edit just one clip I'll cut down my rendering time considerably. But now, even though I can make it so that the clips play back to back (by setting the end action in each of these to point to the following clip), it doesn't seem possible to make the "skip backward" button go to the previous clip, which is a MUST apparently. So I'm wondering if there is any way to do this within DVD Architect? Or maybe another DVD authoring tool that will let me do this, similar to Architect in both price and ease of use? Or maybe I'm just going about this the wrong way? My main goal is to save time because I'm given at most five days to do this whole project when it comes up.

[guns1inger]

If you want smooth playback and full chapter skipping, then you need to create a single title with chapters. If you create the disc as 8 smaller titles then you won't get seamless playback and you will have to fiddle around to get forward/backwards navigation working the way you want. The DVD specification isn't designed to work this way, so you may have to fake it after authoring.

Tmpgenc DVD Author will let you take separate video assets into a single title, and you play around with the chapter stops it inserts automatically, you can get seamless playback.

[couchdirector]

Thank you, I've also messed around with DVDLab which seems to sort of do what I'm looking for with just drawing connections connections between individual movies, the application though is a bit over my head, so I'll give Tmpgenc a try.

Thanks again.

[GT Music]

Are you using Vegas to creat and render your clips?
If so, in regards to your rendering times, you may want to try rendering your clips as seperate streams of Audio / Video then import them into your DVD artch. Project.