dvd lab studio - how to make no chapters?

[janeydoll]

I rewrote the gop to make the time match the lengh of the show, but when i play it after the first commercial cut it says like 13:14:00 instead of it only saying just the 13 minutes. i didn't want chapters but when i hit the next button it goes to the cut place and then to the next and then to the next episode, is there a way to NOT have any chapters or if not then how do i fix that time thing where it says like 13 hours.

thanks

[guns1inger]

I don't use the studio version, I use Pro, so this may not help. When you drag the video asset to the movie clip object, do you see a series of red diamonds across the top of the object ? If so, these are the chapter points. Remove them and you should be OK. Conversely, right click on the movie object and you should get a Chapters menu choice, and under than, Delete All Chapters.

Are you importing VOBs ?
How were the commercials cut out ?
Perhaps DVD Lab Studio is importing as a series of titles and not one single title ?

[janeydoll]

i recorded on a dvd stand alone and edited them on that, it has a 120 GB harddrive on it.

i just used the vob, when i try the mpeg2 converted the audio is off.

yes i click on the 4 titles i want and ctrl so i can get all 4 titles in the same box to bring to the studio. can that be my problem?

i tried just doing 1 title and after i made just one chapter it won't let me rewind after i go to that chapter, i can rewind, but as soon as i hit play it goes to the chapter point

[aedipuss]

those aren't really chapters. you have 4 separate vts's because you used 4 individual movies. the only way to get rid of the breaks is to join them all into 1 movie before authoring. and then make sure you used the fix gop timecode to change it into one seemless unit.

[guns1inger]

DVD Lab Pro has an object called a movie segment that allows multiple titles to be combined, however it doesn't allow chapter points within titles, and it doesn't give seemless playback.

TDA seems to do the best job of combining titles into one seemless track with chapter points.

[janeydoll]

I get four seperate episodes like vts_01_1
vts_02_1
vts_03_1
vts_04_1
but instead of importing each into studio separately I just held the ctrl to highlight all of them to bring in, but they are still 4 episodes. after i compile it when i find it to burn to disc it says that each episode is only 6 mins when shouldn't it say 22 min?

i then tried to just do one episode (vts_01_1) but i still have the same results.

i used dvd fab decrypter to put the episodes on my computer if that makes a difference, i usually use my roxio disc copier or dvd shrink.

also are you suppose to be able to take an episode and turn into mpeg2 (to edit) and then put that mpeg2 into dvdlab studio without the audio being off?

i am still new to the terms and i had to teach myself how to do all of this no one here really tried to tell me the basics how to author like what formats to use for what.

hopefully i can get help now, but i need to get this all fixed because next week i will start recording big brother 7 and i need to have everything working.

thanks for any help.

[janeydoll]

i don't want one full title i want 6 seperate titles

[guns1inger]

If DVD Lab Studio is like it's older sibling, then it will prefer elementary streams instead of the VOBs. DLP offers to demux when VOBs are imported, and usually has less problems if that is done. You can also demux seperately and just bring in the audio and video. This should also fix the problem of not seeing the whole length correctly.

Again, I don't know what capabilities studio has, but DLP has an option to set the audio delay, so if the audio is off by a fixed amount the whole way through, you can adjust the delay with a positive or negative number to fix the problem.

[janeydoll]

i have done the seperate audio and video in dvdlab studio, i tried it on a mpeg2 i think, i am getting more harddrive on my computer so i only had the mpeg2's not the vobs i ran out of room

studio also has that audio delay but i have no clue how i would use it.

[guns1inger]

First, determine if the audio is out by a constant amount the whole way through, or drifts out over time. If it drifts, you have bigger problems. If it is out by a constant amount, delay adjustment will fix it.

If it is a constant amount, open the delay dialogue, and enter a number, in milliseconds. If the audio is late (people speak, then the soun comes), enter a negative number. If it is early, enter a psoitive number. DLS will either trim the audio or add empty space depending one which direction you move it in.

As to how much delay - that you have to work out for yourself. Usually it is in the realm of 500 - 1000 milliseconds. To a degree it is a case of suck it and see.

There is a tool called syncview that might help. It works well for avi, but can be a bit tempermental with mpeg and AC3. You can use it to test you estimates of delay in real time, then use these numbers in DLS to adjust the audio.

[janeydoll]

i would rather fix the vob problem because the audio was only a problem when i did the mpeg2's

[guns1inger]

The mpeg-2 file is just the video from within the VOB. Try demux it a different way. I use rejig to demux from time to time and have no issues with the output. Use rejig to demux one episode as a test. Use the demuxed video and audio files in DLS and see if the problem remains.

[janeydoll]

i also forgot to tell you that i had it set to a dvd-9 because i was testing how the quality would look if i tried to fit more on one
dvd-r so i set it bigger to compile and the burn with disc copier and all went well there, the quality was great, i fit 8 episodes recorded on SP on one dvd-r.

sorry i forgot to tell you that

[janeydoll]

i just did the audio and video seperate and the audio is lagging by a sec or less, the lips move first then the audio follows.

so how do i fix the lag?

[janeydoll]

what number do i put in? the audio is like a sec or less behind their lips, what number should i start trying at? i don't want to be here all day

[janeydoll]

in the dvdlab studio after i seperated the episode
the video time says 21:51
but the audio says 21:54

are they suppose to match? can you help me find a number to start with?

[aedipuss]

put a vob in dvdlab. do not demux. highlight it in the bottom panel. up top go to tools, audio delay and it will tell you the exact audio delay which you can then use if you demux the vob and need to correct it.

[aedipuss]

sometimes different lengths are caused by having changed the fps of the video, like from 25 to 29.97 or pal to ntsc. you can try highlighting the video stream down in the bottom panel, go to tools, re-write gop timecode. run it, delete the old vid stream, import the new re-written one and see if that doesn't come closer to matching.

[janeydoll]

"put a vob in dvdlab. do not demux. highlight it in the bottom panel. up top go to tools, audio delay and it will tell you the exact audio delay which you can then use if you demux the vob and need to correct it."

THAT WORKED!! thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!