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[ajreynolds]

How can I create chapters when I am creating a DVD project? I have read in the files from my DV video camera and I have gone to Edit Chapters. The Edit Chapters window comes up, but the disk just runs for a while and then stops. The video window on Edit Chapters remains black. If I select Use Scene Detection and click Go, the Go button turns to Stop, but it doesn't seem to do anything. How can I make this work?

Also, is there a way to have it automatically break out the scenes when it is reading the video from the camera? Easy DVD Creator 7 did that.

Thanks.

Andy

[ajreynolds]

Anybody?  

I was hoping I might get some response here since Roxio support is useless.  I've posted my question twice in the past couple of months on their online support site and noone has even responded.

[sknis]

ajreynolds, on Oct 22 2006, 04:19 PM, said:

How can I create chapters when I am creating a DVD project? I have read in the files from my DV video camera and I have gone to Edit Chapters. The Edit Chapters window comes up, but the disk just runs for a while and then stops. The video window on Edit Chapters remains black. If I select Use Scene Detection and click Go, the Go button turns to Stop, but it doesn't seem to do anything. How can I make this work?
Also, is there a way to have it automatically break out the scenes when it is reading the video from the camera? Easy DVD Creator 7 did that.
Thanks.
Andy

Andy,  you have given us nothing to go on and maybe that is why you haven't gotten a response.  From your descriptions I'm not even sure what you are doing.  Did you capture the video from the disc onto your hard drive? How  did you connect the camera to the computer?  Where are you trying to edit the chapters - what function?  When you say that the disc runs for awhile and then stops are you saying your hard drive runs and stops or the DVD disc?  

I know some of these questions sound stupid but there are people who come to this board with little or no knowledge about computers or they have too much knowledge and try to do things that the program does automatically.  Forgive me if I'm putting you in one of these categories if you are an experienced user.  

First if you are having any issues with display such as a blank or black screen, you are having a problem with your video set up on your computer.  Since you didn't post anything about it, trouble shooting will be like shooting something on that black screen.  For now, update the drivers for your video card and make sure you have the latest version of Microsoft's DirectX 9c.  Once you post your computer specs including the information on your video card/chip hardware, perhaps we can help.  

V8 requires much more form your video set up than did V7/7.5.  There is no way around it since the program tries to use your video card/chip to do the video rendering.  Some people get around it with software rendering but then they can't use a lot of transitions in VideoWave.

Use Media Manager to break your captured video into scenes.  Navigate and then right click; you'll have several options.  Do you have V8 deluxe or V8 suite?

[ajreynolds]

Thanks for the reply Steve.  

Here's my setup, it's not even a year old, and should be more than adequate for whatever the program is doing:

AMD Athlon 64 4000+
1GB RAM
250GB HD
Plextor PX716AL DVD-RW
Sony DVD-ROM
Creative X-Fi soundcard
eVGA GeForce 7800GT video card (nVidia) w/ 256MB RAM    driver version 91.47
Windows XP Pro sp2
directX 9c 5.3.2600.2180

Roxio MyDVD is version 8 build 805B30B

I hooked up my Sony camera through the 1394 port and had MyDVD read it.  Under Roxio version 7, it would have automatically broken it into separate chapters as it read the video in, which would be ideal.  But I can't find that option in version 8.  

So I read the video in and created one big AVI file with the entire thing in it, about 26 minutes of video.  I'm able to play the video within MyDVD without any problem.

I then try to break my video into chapters.  I select the video and go to Edit Chapters.  It initially shows the first frame of the video.  I leave the "Using Scene Detection" option set with default sensitivity of 50 and the "Generate chapter menus" box checked.  I click on the Go button and the video window on the Edit Chapters dialog goes black, the button changes to "Stop" and the hard disc runs for several minutes.  Eventually the hard disc stops running, but the button still says Stop and the window is still black.  After letting it sit for about an hour and a half, I just clicked OK.  It still doesn't seem to have done anything.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Andy

[sknis]

ajreynolds, on Nov 13 2006, 09:48 PM, said:

Thanks for the reply Steve.

Here's my setup, it's not even a year old, and should be more than adequate for whatever the program is doing:

AMD Athlon 64 4000+
1GB RAM
250GB HD
Plextor PX716AL DVD-RW
Sony DVD-ROM
Creative X-Fi soundcard
eVGA GeForce 7800GT video card (nVidia) w/ 256MB RAM driver version 91.47
Windows XP Pro sp2
directX 9c 5.3.2600.2180

Roxio MyDVD is version 8 build 805B30B

I hooked up my Sony camera through the 1394 port and had MyDVD read it. Under Roxio version 7, it would have automatically broken it into separate chapters as it read the video in, which would be ideal. But I can't find that option in version 8.

So I read the video in and created one big AVI file with the entire thing in it, about 26 minutes of video. I'm able to play the video within MyDVD without any problem.

I then try to break my video into chapters. I select the video and go to Edit Chapters. It initially shows the first frame of the video. I leave the "Using Scene Detection" option set with default sensitivity of 50 and the "Generate chapter menus" box checked. I click on the Go button and the video window on the Edit Chapters dialog goes black, the button changes to "Stop" and the hard disc runs for several minutes. Eventually the hard disc stops running, but the button still says Stop and the window is still black. After letting it sit for about an hour and a half, I just clicked OK. It still doesn't seem to have done anything.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Andy

You are correct, you should have the equipment to do the job.  One suggestion that another poster found that helped that poster was to change the performance of the video card to "performance" or "best performance".  It would normally be set to "appearance" or "best appearance".  

I found that you have to play around with the sensitivity but there is a fine line.  At 50, there is probably not enough difference in the scenes for the program to pick up; at a higher sensitivity say 75, you may get one per second.   Try playing around with that using higher and lower numbers.  In a 26 minute video you probably do not want a lot of chapters; have you considered adding the chapter marks manually just where you want them?  

Did you try breaking the video into scenes using Media Manager?   Open that program, navigate to the file and right click; there are several options there.  Later, you can select what scenes you want to add to the production.  When VideoWave is open, go to my media and then to the date you broke out the scenes and just drag the ones you want to your production.