DVDA folder structure

[John Rofrano]

The default folders that are created are Mastered DVD and My Disc. What should go in each of these – the project itself? TS_Video & TS_Audio folders?? Thanks for any help.

Those folders are for your rendered disc images. I wouldn’t put anything except what DVD Architect puts in them. In other words, let DVD Architect make a folder for each project under My Discs and let it do it’s thing. It will create the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders that you need under each. You don’t need to manage those at all.

I keep all of my DVD “assets” including the DVD Architect project DAR file in a DVD folder under my Vegas project. My project folders typically look something like this:

+-Project Name
  +- video
  +- images
  +- music
  +- render
  +- dvd


My VEG project is directly under the project folder. The video folder contains all camera footage which may have subfolders for multi-camera edits. Images contains all still images used in the project. Likewise for music. All of my renders go into the render folder. Everything used to make the DVD, (menus, PSD’s, DAR files, etc.) go in the dvd folder. This keeps things well organized and makes it easy to archive a project and all it’s media.

~jr

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[James Wilhelmi]

Thanks John. My project folders are similar but in past I always let DVDA do it’s thing in the default location so I thought it would make more sense to create a DVD folder in within the project folder like you have.

James

[Mike Kujbida]

“in past I always let DVDA do it’s thing in the default location”

As I recall, that’s C:\My Documents (or something equally useless).

“I thought it would make more sense to create a DVD folder in within the project folder like you have.”

It makes a lot of sense to do it this way.
My folder setup is almost identical to John’s and modifying the various folder storage locations in Vegas & DVDA is the first thing I do whenever I install a new version.