none said:
DVD-BOY wrote: The Storyline Approach that DVD Studio Pro refers to is more commonly known as 'playlists', whereby you can re-arrange your chapters into a new order without increasing space on the disc.
This is the process i'll be looking into. Do you know how it differs then seamless branching? or is it just a similar term and the differences are in how the programs sort it out.
none
Playlists have their content in one 'Master' track, and you can play back the chapters in different orders. Seamless branching is closer to multi-angle, except your alternative angles are different lengths.
So your Storyline approach will look like this:
MF = Main Feature 'chapter', AD = Advert
MF1, MF2, MF3, MF4, MF5, MF6, AD1, AD2, AD3, AD4, AD5, AD6
So, just the Main Feature will be:
MF1, MF2, MF3, MF4, MF5, MF6
Main Feature and Adverts will be
MF1, MF2, MF3, AD1, AD2, AD3, MF4, MF5, AD4, AD5, AD6, MF6
With Seamless branching, each segment of your film would be a standalone piece, and you would stitch them together 'seamlessly' in the order you require. With Playlists, they will only be seamless on the original timeline - when you insert the adverts, the disc will jump to the end of your movie to retrieve the adverts, then jump back to continue with the film.
The easiest way to look at Seamless Branching would be if you were trying to put multiple versions of ANH on 1 disc ala Bladerunner EG:
START OF FILM UP UNTIL CANTINA
V1 - CLASSIC CANTINA AND ESCAPE FROM MOS EISLEY
V2 - SE CANTINA, SE JABBA, SE MOS EISLEY
REST OF FILM
You would want to Seamlessly change on the scene cut to alternative versions, which would be different lengths with different audio.
The opening crawls are examples of Seamless Multi-Angle. The different languages for the crawl are seperate angles with the same audio tracks, and same durations, therefore the joins between the crawl and the beginning of the film are 'seamless'.
HTH - DVD-BOY