After a holiday you may have so much footage that you don't want to put this all in one project. So I created multiple projects with manegable size movies. But how can I get this onto ONE dvd, with a menu taking you to a selected movie?
Which version of MEP do you use?
A Project may be 1 or more Films
You have saved a number of Projects with 1 film in each project.
Open project no 1. Then double-click on project no. 2 in the Mediapool, A question comes, "Close current project" or "Add new project" Click Add and your project no 2 will come on a new timeline. Do the same with the next Projects.
You will see the films by clicking the Filmwheel under the monitor, if you have version MX or earlier. In MEP 2014 you see them as Tabs under the monitor. Save the project with a new name.
Now you can burn a DVD with the menu you want.
Regards A.
Hi
Depending on your starting point here are several ways of how to produce a multi-movie disc. My preferred option is C.
Warning - doing multiple movies like this will seriously slow down your PC - if it is a laptop then it may become unusable in which case try option (C)
The movies must be in one project, each movie on its own timeline.
(A) From an existing project - make a backup of the original project then:
1. Open the project displaying the timeline.
2. Press Ctrl + Alt + N to create a new movie in the open project, click Don't close in the dialog that will open - you will now get a blank timeline and another movie tab.
3. Click the tab containing the original movie to display its timeline and select all the clips that are required in new movie and copy them
4. Click the tab of the added movie and paste the copied objects on to the blank timeline.
5. Repeat steps 2 - 4 as required
6. Select the original movie and remove it from the project File, Manage movies, Remove from project and save the project
7. Click on the Burn tab
8. MEP will create a menu with the indivdual movies on it change the menu template if you wish
9. Click each movie button and set the action you want at the end of the movie, in your case Jump to film menu
10. Save the project and do a trial burn ( I suggest you use rewriteable DVD or BD - they save you money) .
(B) Starting from a new project : -
a. Add the video/images etc to the blank timeline for the relevant topic set transitions, titles effects and chapters as desired, save the project
b. Press Ctrl + Alt + N to create a new movie in the open project, click Don't close in the dialog that will open - you will now get a blank timeline and another movie tab.
c. Repeat steps a and b as often as required.
d. Follow steps 7 - 10 above for the menu
(C) Starting with individual movies
11. Create an individual project for each movie, adding video, images, titles, effects etc and save the project.
12. For each project export the finished video as Magix mxv file File, Export movie, Video as Magix video.
13. Then follow procedure (B) - at step (a) import the exported mxv files from step 12 instead of adding video etc
Note the total run time of all the movies must not exceed 2 hrs fo a single layer DVD or 4 hours for a Dual layer disc.
HTH
John