Sequential VCD files

[ROBO1964]

I am going to be making a VCD with various clips on it. I was at first thinking I would join them all together but that might be more trouble than its worth.

If I make a VCD and have files in sequence does each start without interruption like a DVD movie or is their a pause before each clip?

[Fredd]

I read in a article dealing with VCD chaptering that you may have a pause due to the time the player needs to jump to the following track, even if you author your VCD with a zero second delay between each track.
There is no pause if you use entrypoints in a single MPEG file but, as a counterpart, it's not sure you'll have entrypoints at the frame you want.

[Mirror_Image]

It depends which software you use. One option is:

Ulead Video Studio 6

UVS6 will let you fade between clips, etc, very seamless. Edit, encode, choose entry points and burn. Try the 30-day trial version and see what you think.

[ROBO1964]

I have Vegas Video 3 which can handle it. I just am concerned with having these massive avi's to then encode as one super huge one.

I guess I could encode the parts and then join them together with TMPGenc but I don't know how good that would work. Does it just join them? or does it re-render them?

[Craig Tucker]

No it does just join them. However you do sometimes get an audio glitch at the point of the join.

Craig

[KingJohn]

I am going to be making a VCD with various clips on it. I was at first thinking I would join them all together but that might be more trouble than its worth.

If I make a VCD and have files in sequence does each start without interruption like a DVD movie or is their a pause before each clip?

How much do you pay for disks ?, have you tried just dropping the mpeg files in one after another to see how well your player handles them ?. They will play just fine with just a flicker between the tracks.

[kitty]

I agree - take your clips and burn them sequentially with Nero or VCDeasy and see how your player handles it. If you notice a pause then you can go the low road.

[ROBO1964]

It seems to work. There is a slight pause but if I make a fade out at the end and a title screen with a fade in for the next clip it should hardly be noticeable.

Wouldn't work for a continuous clip so then I'd have to go the route of joining MPEG's together with TMPGenc.

One thing I did notice but don't know why. I made a menu VCD to test that out at the same time and had one selection as play all. For some reason if I fast forwarded the sound got out of sync and trailed the video but it reasonably quickly got back in sync over around 10 seconds. You could actually see it was getting closer and closer to sync till it got in sync.

Any idea's what would cause that?

[KingJohn]

That's just your player, don't use fast forward

You don't need a menu for playing clips one after the other, the disk should play as soon as you insert it, then follow on with the next sequence, however since you made a menu, once it starts playing it will work the same as one made without the menu, so no point in trying it again. Sounds like your player is a bit temperamental.