Originally posted by: ChainsawAsh
Excuse my ignorance ... but isn't that basically seamless branching?
Excuse my ignorance ... but isn't that basically seamless branching?
Unfortunately not.
Seamless branching allows you to to switch between different scenes of different lengths seamlessly.
So it would allow you to contain 2 versions of a film with different scenes, and link together the ones you need:
Chapter 1 (5 mins) | Chapter 2 (5 mins) | Chapter 3 (5 mins) would be version 1.
Chapter 1 (5 mins) | Chapter 2 (15 mins) | Chapter 3 (10 mins) would be version 2.
DVD Maestro would allow you to drop Chapter 2, or play Chapter 3, then 2, then 1 although perhaps not seamlessly.
The other name for Seamless branching is Multi-Story which kind of makes more sense. Remember that Multi-angle is clips of the same length (lightsabre changes between SW77 & SW04) and Multi-Story / Seamless Branching is clips of different lengths (I'm not sure I can thing of a Star Wars related example!)
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