Beth Cataldo, April 10, 2007

Creating Stories in DVDSP
A Story is a collection of Markers used to assembling different pieces of your video together. This is the main way to assemble different points in your assets together into a new movie.

Each Track can have up to 99 Stories in it. Once you’ve created a Story, it will appear in your project’s End Jump drop-down box in the Inspector menu.

Stories are track-based, meaning that you can only create a Story with media that’s in the same track. Only Chapter Markers can be added to stories. The way to mix content from different tracks is by linking different stories together.

Use the Story Editor to create stories by adding and arranging markers. The Story Editor is divided into two halves: the Source List and the Entry List. The Source List will display all the markers that exist in the Track that you have selected. The Entry list is a list of the Markers arranged in the order that you want them to play.

The Story will start playing at the Marker and automatically play the next Marker in the Story list. You can drag as many Markers as you need into the Stories Entry List. DVDSP will always automatically stop after the last Marker in the list when it encounters the next Marker in the track.

Creating a Story:
To create a Story, first you must select the Track that you want this Story to be in. Then you can do one of following to add a Story.

1. Control + Click and choose Add>Story.

2. In the toolbar, click the Add Story icon

3. Choose Project>Add to Project>Story.

Adding Markers to a Story:

1. Open up the Story by double-clicking on it.

2. Select a Marker from the Source List and drag it onto the Entry List.

Rearranging and Deleting Markers:

1. Drag and drop the Marker where you want it to be.

2. Select the Marker and hit the Delete key to delete it.

Setting a Story's End Jump:

1. Select the Story in Outline view.

2. The Inspector updates to show the Story's Properties.

3. From the End Jump drop-down, choose the project element you want to go to when the story is done.

Linking to Another Set of Stories

If you want to jump from media in one track to media in another track, you do this by linking the stories to one another End Jump drop-down.

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