Question for NE1 still using ULEAD & Tytools?

[BubbleLamp]

After a long pause, just collecting tons of ty's, I've jumped back into authoring some DVDs to recover a few hundred gig of disk space. Since some of the stuff I originally did using Ulead DVDWS, I'd like to continue using it for the related content. So my question is, when using vsplit to create ULEAD-fixed files, I generate 3-5 files per show. How do you go about importing these multiple files as a single menu item in Ulead? Are you concatinating them manually beforehand, or is there a trick to get DVDWS to load them all?

Bato, Pr. Sinister, I know you both spent a lot of time with DVDWS in the day, have you abandoned it already for DVDLab?

Thanks

[captain_video]

I had been using DVDWS for both my Seinfeld and Babylon 5 series compilations. I never used split files for importing since DVDWS will take the mpegs directly. Older versions of TyTools weren't completely compatible with DVDWS in that it used to take forever to import the mpegs. The latest versions (TyTool7rX and up) did something to thhe mpegs (probably the Ulead fix) that allowed the files to import in only seconds rather than many minutes.

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for but here goes. To import more than one mpeg into your DVD compilation, open up your template or create a new one and go to the Capture screen. In the window on the lower left, select Video - General from the pull-down menu. Click on the open folder icon just to the right and select the mpeg you wish to import. If you've got a problematic file it can sometimes take a very long time for it to import or sometimes it will simply timeout and refuse to import the file. You can usually cure this problem by re-editing the file using a different cut point at the very beginning of the clip. Don't forget to patch the 1st header of each mpeg to 352X480 @ 3.5MBit before you import the files or you'll have to do it later and then reimport them. When you've got all the mpegs imported then drag and drop them to the New Title box at the bottom of the screen just to the right of the box that says First Play. Another New Title box will be displayed just to the right of the previous one when the mpeg has been imported into the compilation.

If you're trying to import multiple files into DVDWS that will be linked together so that they will play back-to-back when selected from a single menu button I don't believe it can be done in DVDWS. Every video segment you import has to be linked to a menu button or it won't be playable. There is a way that you can join multiple clips together to create one large file that will play in DVDWS as a single clip. It involves creating a set of VOBs for each video clip and then renaming each set of VOBs such that they would appear to be part of the same VOB set. You can then join them all together into one large VOB file using IFOEdit and selecting the VOB Extras option. If this sounds like what you need then let me know and I'll post all of the steps if you're not sure how to go about it.

[BubbleLamp]

Thanks for the reply Cap'n. I checked with Josh, and the way he made the Ulead fix work is to make clean breaks at each cut point and generate a new file as well. But if you leave off the -p command, then vsplit does create a single file. I'm just not sure if that single file is in fact the same as 3 concatenated single files.

Are you saying I can drag 4 separate files from the Video Library to the New Title bar and they will be recognized as a single video segment, not 4 separate segments? I'll have to try that.

[captain_video]

[QUOTE}Are you saying I can drag 4 separate files from the Video Library to the New Title bar and they will be recognized as a single video segment, not 4 separate segments? [/QUOTE]

No, that's not what I meant to imply at all. What I was trying to say was that you can combine the separate segments using the VOB Extras option in IFOEdit to join them all together by going through a series of steps. DVDWS won't recognize four separate segments as a single file. You'd have to add each segment as a menu item on either the main or submenu. However, I do believe you can link the segments together so that they will play one right after another. When you drag the segments to the Title List area at the bottom of the screen, right-click on each item and select After play -> Next Title. When you get to the last segment select After play -> Last Menu so it will take you back to the main menu when it's finished playing. You will still have to link each segment to a button on the main menu or the subsequent segments won't play at all.

[BubbleLamp]

Thanks. Well first I'm going to try the -f without the -p option on vsplit. My theory is the cuts will still be clean, but that might just be wishful thinking on my part. For laughs I might cat the separates together manually and them comp the file with the single file output.