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Is there a way to copy DVD menus?
Hi,
New user, first time poster. I have searched for this problem, but cannot find it asked, I apologize if it’s been answered before.I have created two movie files from my son’s one hour hockey game, one SD and one BD. I have created two very nice menus in DVDA for the SD one, and have burned discs for the parents of my sons teammates, all is fine there.
What I am trying to do, efficiently, is to somehow just simply swap out the SD movie file with the BD movie file. They are both exact, I changed nothing only the type of render. All the chapter markers are intact.
Please tell me there is a way to efficiently just insert the BD (.m2v) file and remove the SD (.mpg) file. I can deal with broken links, and re-linking them, but my main objective here is to minimize the amount of work in recreating the menus and all the buttons.
The closest I can find (after spending days on this) is to copy each menu as a theme, but it doesn’t copy all the buttons with it. And, I can’t find a way to copy the buttons even separately, although I see there’s a way to select button styles, so there must be a way to save buttons. This would be my second choice in solving this problem, a lot more work than simply replacing the file and rebuilding the links.
I do have the BD discs, I’m ready to go, I just need to build the menu and I’m ready to burn it.
Can anyone help me here please? I need to burn this BD disc for tomorrow as I’m delivering it to a very important client and I want him to have the BD version of the game.
Thank you so much!
Bill
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[William Mitchell] “The closest I can find (after spending days on this) is to copy each menu as a theme, but it doesn’t copy all the buttons with it. And, I can’t find a way to copy the buttons even separately, although I see there’s a way to select button styles, so there must be a way to save buttons. This would be my second choice in solving this problem, a lot more work than simply replacing the file and rebuilding the links.”
Hopefully you’re going to laugh when you see how easy it is. 😉
Double-click the button that plays the movie. Drag and drop the HD version over the SD version on the timeline. That’s it!
Change your project from DVD to Blu-ray and burn it.
~jr
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Thanks John, ya, that’s reeaaaalll funny ;^)
Well, I JUST finished rebuilding the menus for the BD version from scratch. It is rendering as I type this.
The good news is a) more experience with the software, and 2) it’s much faster doing it the second time LOL
Thanks for the (SIMPLE!) solution, I will definitely use this in the future as I have many more hockey games to edit/burn.
I appreciate your time! After reading the forums for a few weeks I have to wonder if you are the one who programmed Vegas and DVDA ;^)
Thanks again, have a great day.
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[William Mitchell] “After reading the forums for a few weeks I have to wonder if you are the one who programmed Vegas and DVDA ;^)”
No, but I did program all of the VASST Software plug-ins (e.g., Ultimate S Pro, Caption Assistant, Mayhem, Production Assistant, etc.) so you need to have a pretty intimate knowledge of how Vegas works to be able to program plug-ins for it. 🙂
~jr
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Another way that works well:
1. Set the project properties to match your camcorder format. In my case it is HDV 1080-60i (1440×1080).
2. Edit your movie.
3. Render using the same format as the project settings. In my case it is HDV, and will produce a .m2t file. No recompression should be necessary except where you have added transitions or effects, so this step does not take too long.
4. Open DVDA and set its project properties to Blu-ray disc, with appropriate video and audio settings. In my case I take advantage of the fact that Blu-ray supports 1440×1080 AVC files, which should be easier to convert to from HDV than 1920×1080, with quality just as good.
5. Bring in your media file, create your menus, and check the preview.
6. Prepare your Blu-ray image file (this takes some time!)
7. Save your project.
8. Change the project settings to DVD. Be sure to make the aspect ratio 16×9 (for some reason this is not the default). Your menus will be magically converted to DVD resolution – you may see the text jump slightly as all the fonts are recreated, but the menus will be essentially unchanged.
9. Prepare your DVD folder (this takes time but not as much as the Blu-ray).
10. Save your project under a different name than the Blu-ray version.
11. Burn your discs. The two versions should work identically.Best wishes! I hope your hockey footage comes out well. Years ago I used to watch a few games – I have seen Bobby Orr, John Bucyk, Rocket Richard, Jean Béliveau, Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, etc., play, and I wish they had camcorders back then!
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