rendering questions

[Edward Troxel]

The script has to “turn on” the Save Markers option. As for the lower audio, are you sure it’s using the modified preset?

Edward Troxel

[James_j]

Oops, I didn’t create a new audio preset, I’m just choosing the included 5.1 Surround selection. Although I can’t find any VU meters in DVDA(?), by ear I’d say the output is halved. It’s pretty clear graphically on the timeline in DVDA as well.

Makes no sense since the audio is fine if I manually render it using the same template. But then, so are the chapter markers.

I’m no expert at coding, but looking at the included (V7) batch render script the word ‘chapter’ doesn’t appear. Is this just a glaring error that can be corrected easily? Or is there a better batch render script floating around?

[Mike Kujbida]

…by ear I’d say the output is halved

Try this tweak for low audio in DVDA.

Encode set to AC3;
Click on custom tab;
Dialog normalization: -31 dB;
Dynamic range compression: None;
On the first tab set diag. norm to “-31”;
On the last tab marked preprocessing;
Set the Line Mode & RF mode profiles to “None”;
Now save this as a preset.

[James_j]

Oddly, that fixed the audio problem. I can’t imagine why.

But why is it dumping my chapter markers?

[Mike Kujbida]

Oddly, that fixed the audio problem. I can’t imagine why.

I know I’ve read the reason why on various Vegas forums but it went over my head 🙂

But why is it dumping my chapter markers?

It’s happened to me periodically as well, even after pressing the Load Markers button in DVDA. No rhyme or reason for this behaviour 🙁

[James_j]

I didn’t really want to hear this is a problem with Vegas itself. Or rather, with the scripting engine.

Now I’m wondering which it is. Are you saying that sometimes even if you render an mpg2 manually, you get no chapter markers? Yikes.

[Mike Kujbida]

Every once in a while, after I do a render, the markers refuse to show in DVDA. I know I put them there AND selected the Save Markers option in Vegas but, for whatever reason, they don’t show up.
I generally don’t have a lot of markers in my projects so I’ll add them manually but it sure would be nice to know why this happens.

[Edward Troxel]

The scripting changed in one of the Vegas updates. The option was given to allow scripts to turn markers on or off. The default is OFF. If your script is not modified to turn it ON, you won’t get markers.

Edward Troxel

[James_j]

I can’t imagine why they would decide to strip off markers by default,
but I’m willing to modify the script if that’s what it takes.

I have Batch Render.cs from Vegas6 here, so I did a compare to the V7 script. Lots of differences, but nothing that mentions ‘set this to on to save markers’. In fact, the word ‘mark’ doesn’t appear in the script at all.

So I’m at a loss. I’m competent enough to make code changes, but right now I have no idea what to change. Maybe there’s a scripting forum somewhere?

[Edward Troxel]

Here’s what you’re looking for.

Edward Troxel