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Post #879577

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pittrek
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Seamless branching?
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Date created
6-Nov-2015, 4:11 AM

It really depends on what software are you using. Years ago I used Mediachance DVDLab Pro, that one was capable of doing it.

The basic principles :

  • you need one “main movie”
  • every alternate / extended scene should be encoded as a separate movie
  • the main movie must have I frames put into exactly the frames which you will use as “branching points”, so you must use a mpeg2 encoder which allows you to do this. If you don’t put the “branching points” on I-frames, the branching will not be 100% seamless
  • The main movie has to be split into chapters correctly.
  • the last step will have to be the correct playlists in your DVD authoring software, so each movie version will have its own playlist.