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A few basic questions
Sony vegas movie studio platinum 9.0b/DVDA architect 4.5
I have used vegas for a year, but primarily in the the “edit in vegas and render and then automatically open up in DVDA” mode.
My latest project is a bit more challenging, and I want to render pieces of it, so that it wont take so long to make a new DVD when I only change a few scenes.
Originally I had all my scenes in one Vegas project, but I can’t find an a way to keep a previous render for most of the project while changing a few scenes, and then rerender the changed scenes.
Q1. is that a correct conclusion?Since I cannot do the above, I think I need to divide the project into multple vegas projects and then import each into DVDA. This way if I change only one project, I dont have to redo the other projects.
Q2. sound reasonable?Now my real questions
Q3. I plan to have markers in my vegas projects, which I hope will show up as chapter titles on the dvd. It seems that the marker information is stored in a seperate file.Since I have multiple vegas projects, I assume I will have multiple marker files. Since in the past I did the “automatically send the project to DVDA”, I have not had a need to manually import markers into DVDA; how do I do that?Q4. I believe the render format in vegas will still be “DVDA format”, widescreen. When i have this format selected, the “custom” button on vegas (v9.0b) is grayed out (it is fine for other modes such as WMV, AVI, MPEG-1, but not MPEG02). I can’t alter the bit rate. I have found that when the rendered file is too large, and DVDA “optimizes”, it still takes as much time as the original render (no transitions, etc). I would like to be able to control the bit rate in vegas. Any suggestions?
Q5. Would DVDShrink be a viable alternative to DVDA optimize?
Q6. If i wind up rendering in someother workflow to get the bit rate down,, would I stil be able to make use of the marker file?
Q7. Does the Vegas marker file simply populate the chapter titels? If i remove the marker file later, will the chapter titles that came from the marker files still be there?
Much thanks.