@mark-perry

Hi

See this tutorial although this was done on a later version of MEP. The principles are the same for MEP 17 - do note the warning in the tutorial.

John EB

@johnebaker

John, I just had a look at that tute and I think it doesn't go about this the best way.

A. Create the individual movies

1) Create an individual project for each movie, adding and editing video, images, titles, effects, soundtrack etc. and save the project.

2) Export the finished video as a Magix mxv file – select File, Export movie, Video as Magix video.

3) Repeat steps 1 and 2 for the remaining movies to be used in the final project.

I have never made a separate project for each movie; I have always just added movies to the current project. I haven't noticed any slowdown using this workflow.

I then set up the chapter marks in each movie and hit the Burn button.

Going via MXV will result in quality loss and of course take up a significant amount of extra time.

Another couple of points:

- The tip at the end re using rewritable disks: I suggest that people just burn to ISO, then check it with VLC player.

- The note at the end shows the complexity of using MXVs. If one simply uses one project initially, that issue doesn't arise. You still have to encode the edited movie, but that will be done at the Burn stage. And if Andy W's favourite old website was still up, one could see an explanation for the cryptic "Encode All" message that will pop up during a re-burn. 😂 (one of these days!). 👍

Cheers, Al

@AAProds

Hi Al,

I agree with you and I usually (haven't done one for a long time) create the multi-movie project and go straight to burning but always with encoding first, then burning later after checking that the files worked.

However, I had one project that had too many effects, mostly Neat Video, took 2 days to encode, with disastrous results. I ended up exporting each movie to mxv and importing each into a new project, making chapters, etc. as John EB shows. It all depends on the case.

John CB

@AAProds, @browj2

Hi Alwyn, John

. . . . John, I just had a look at that tute and I think it doesn't go about this the best way. . . . .

From the aspect of current high end computers I would agree with you, however the tutorial was written (7 years ago) to use MXV files to encompass a wide spectrum of computer systems from low end to high end such that the lower specification machines could handle for example seven timelines at one time without grinding to a halt.

The method to use also depends on the what is required as the final end product, for example I used the tutorial method, for a recent project which has 32 movies for two different destinations for a total of 64 exports in all.

This could not be done easily in MEP or VPX as one project due each movie consisting of 2 sub movies - a version for uploading to my website, and a version that was BD compliant, ie my equivalent of the MXV in the tutorial, for BD disc creation.

As a test, I loaded the 32 BD compliant movies into VPX 12 created the menus and burned to BD disc with a custom export pre-set, the same settings as the compliant export pre-set I created. This enabled Smart Copy to be used, the only rendering taking place was the menu system, and the disc burned with no issues.

I did end up creating the disc using DVD Architect as I wanted some features that could not be done easily in VPX.

John EB