New user, coupla questions re: Vegas / Architect

[John Rofrano]

> 1. Is there any way in Vegas Studio to automatically create scene/chapter markers at clip boundaries? That would make assembling a quickie DVD much easier.

There is no automated way in Movie Studio. In Vegas Pro you could use scripts but the Movie Studio version doesn’t have this so you have to manually drop a marker at the beginning of each event to make chapter points.

> 2. Same question for Architect Studio.

You have to manually create chapter points here as well unless you did this in Movie Studio already and rendered with embedded markers in which case they will automatically get imported from the markers in Movie Studio.

> 3. Can you only add one audio file to a “picture compilation”?

Sorry I never used picture compilation so i can’t answer this one. I do all of my photo montages in Vegas.

> 4. What do the initial project presets affect (ie., interlacing, etc)? They seem to affect how the material is rendered, but do they affect anything during editing? Can I change them at will prior to rendering?

Actually they don’t affect the render. These settings are for how Vegas displays the footage while editing. It is a good idea to keep them the same as your render format so that there are no surprises when you render but you can have a 60i project and render to 24p if you’d like.

> 5. I’m a little unclear what my options are in Vegas Studio / Architect Studio when working in HD all the way to the edited output….

I don’t have the Movie Studio version but I do know that DVD Architect Studio cannot handle HD/Blu-ray. I believe your only options is to render a Blu-ray disc directly from the timeline with the menus option: Tools | Burn Disc | Blu-ray Disc… (I think Movie Studio has this option)

~jr

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[Paul Goelz]

You have to manually create chapter points here as well unless you did this in Movie Studio already and rendered with embedded markers in which case they will automatically get imported from the markers in Movie Studio.

Bummer! What a silly function to omit. I can live with it, but it makes quickie “vacation video” projects more difficult.

Actually they don’t affect the render. These settings are for how Vegas displays the footage while editing. It is a good idea to keep them the same as your render format so that there are no surprises when you render but you can have a 60i project and render to 24p if you’d like.

Thanks, I found that answer in the newbie forum shortly after I posted here…. and discovered that was probably where I should have posted in the first place 😉

I don’t have the Movie Studio version but I do know that DVD Architect Studio cannot handle HD/Blu-ray. I believe your only options is to render a Blu-ray disc directly from the timeline with the menus option: Tools | Burn Disc | Blu-ray Disc… (I think Movie Studio has this option)

Thanks, I missed that one. Yes, it looks like you can render to Bluray in either MP4 or MPEG2 including chapter markers in Vegas Studio….. just no menu.

OK, that does it for me…. I think I can fly solo.

Thanks,
Paul

[John Rofrano]

> OK, that does it for me…. I think I can fly solo.

Well… if ya’ need the tower to talk ya’ down… you know were to find us. 😉

~jr

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[Paul Goelz]

Hmmmm….. turns out that I DO have one other question. Vegas Studio 9 will suit me just fine but it looks like DVD Architect 5 is what I REALLY want…. but you can’t buy it by itself? If so, that is a shame. I downloaded the trial version of DVDA 5 and it indeed does what I need. It can do HD Bluray menus where 4.5 cannot. But clicking the BUY link only offers to sell you Vegas Pro and that is unfortunately way more money than I want to throw at this.

Paul

[John Rofrano]

Paul, Yes that is unfortunate and hopefully Sony will fix that in the next release. In the mean time, you might want to check out Ulead DVD Movie Factory 6 Plus with the Blu-ray plug-in. It’s not that expensive and has a nice collection of menu templates to choose from. I use to use it to make HD DVD’s before Blu-ray won the war so I haven’t tried the Blu-ray plug-in but the application itself is easy to use.

~jr

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[Paul Goelz]

Thanks but I’m done buying software for now 😉 I came to Vegas because I discovered that my former editor (Adobe Premiere Elements 7) did a truly horrible job rendering HD to DVD. I like Vegas and would like to stick with it. I’ve even gotten comfortable with DVDA after a brief struggle 😉 I find it hard to believe that Sony would market Vegas Studio 9 with DVDA 4.5 when it is clearly aimed at HD users and says it will burn a BD disc but doesn’t specifically state that you can’t do menus. That is very close to false advertising. I can only hope that the next release is affordable to upgrade. Or better still, just allow an upgrade to a “Studio” version of DVDA 5.

In the mean time, Premiere Elements 7 seems to do an OK job with HD assets rendered to a BD disc so if I need to burn a BD with menus I can still go that route.

Paul