DVD Freezes at each "chapter"

[hoyboy]

Hi, I have a problem with a DVD I authored a couple of days ago. I captured through firewire into Ulead Videostudio7 (I think- it came with the A06). It captured fine, I put a menu in etc- looked great. The problem is that it is a 90Min dvd, and Ulead split it up into 71 "chapters" of around 90 seconds. when the Dvd is played, every time it goes into a new "chapter" it freezes for around one second and then continues. Other than that it looks great. I'm at work at the moment so I will edit this once I get home to find out exactly what program it is. I have used VS5 before and had no problems like this with it- though that only got used for VCD's

[Specialist]

Hi, I have a problem with a DVD I authored a couple of days ago. I captured through firewire into Ulead Videostudio7 (I think- it came with the A06). It captured fine, I put a menu in etc- looked great. The problem is that it is a 90Min dvd, and Ulead split it up into 71 "chapters" of around 90 seconds. when the Dvd is played, every time it goes into a new "chapter" it freezes for around one second and then continues. Other than that it looks great.

This "freeze" as you put it - is normal.

That's what happens when an *independent* video chapter stops playing and then the next *independent* video chapter begins playing.

To stop the freezing, you'll need to tell Ulead Videostudio 7 not to split your source video into multiple files.

Instead, render out a single DV .avi file.

Then encode the final, edited DV .avi file to a single MPEG-2 file.

Then enter your DVD authoring module and import the single MPEG-2 file.

Create the chapters within the single MPEG-2 file.

In that way, when you create your chapter menu you'll be able to click any of the chapter thumbnails and the video will play continuously without freezing.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net