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[Matt Crowley]

Ed, did you get DVD Architect as part of the Studio Platinum 9 package? I’m not sure about Studio 9, but Studio 10 HD Platinum comes with DVD Architect bundled.

When you get to the end of the “Make Movie” wizard in Vegas you get the option to “Send to DVD Architect…”. If you choose that, DVD Architect will get launched, with your newly rendered video ready to go in a menu-based DVD template. You can fiddle with this if you want, or simply click the “Make DVD” button and select the “Prepare” option. That will give you the required folders/files to burn onto a DVD.

DVD Architect Studio 5 lets you burn to a disc or write an ISO image (don’t know about earlier versions). Instead of “Prepare”, select “Burn”, click your way through the wizard until the Burn Parameters page and select ISO Image Writer as the device to burn with.

DVD Architect can even add extra files (data files, software etc) to a DVD for you – just specify a folder for “extras” in the DVD project properties. You don’t really need special burning software unless you want some other advanced features.

[Ed Vandenderen]

Matt

Yes, 9 comes with dvda bundled. If I choose send to dvda from studio render and there choose burn, will it burn the disc? or will I have to go through the prepare button first.

Do you know if this software will burn to dual layer discs?

again, thanks for the help

Ed

[Matt Crowley]

If you haven’t already prepared the disc, clicking “Burn” will automatically prepare the disc, then burn it. You can also choose a previously prepared project folder to burn.

If you want to use Imgburn instead of DVD Architect to burn the disc, just use the “Prepare” option.

DVD Architect 5 (with Vegas HD 10) will burn dual-layer discs. I don’t know about earlier versions. Check in the help file under “burning your project”. DVD Architect prompts you to select a layer break point (usually a chapter marker) in the Burn wizard if you’re using a dual-layer disc.

[Ed Vandenderen]

Matt

Having good luck segmenting the video to fit to 4.7 media.

I tried a dual layer again, set dvda to auto place a layer break yet at 66% burn it prompts me to make one.

I don’t know where to go from this point in order to insert one. Do I go back to the render in ms to do this and start from scratch?

Dvda ask you to put it in the title??

thanks

Ed

[Matt Crowley]

I’ve never actually tried a dual-layer DVD so I don’t really know the detail of selecting a break point – none of my projects are nearly big enough to need it.

It sounds like DVD Architect can’t automatically find a suitable break point. Do you have any chapter markers in your project? Or is it just one (or more) huge video segment(s)? If you don’t have markers, try adding some at convenient places (scene changes etc) to break up your DVD.

You can add markers on the timeline in DVD Architect to save re-rendering in Vegas – just click on the timeline for the video, scroll/play until you find a scene change or fade-out (to hide the layer-change pause) and press M to add a marker (like in Vegas). Break up the project with markers, then try preparing and burning again – hopefully the markers will be picked up as possible layer-break points.

[Ed Vandenderen]

Thanks for the help Matt.

I see lots of thread history here on this issue, non of which answer the question of where and how to insert the layer break asked for in dvda. Guess I will re render only amount for single layer and forget any dual layer work with sony dvda.\

thank for all of your help though

Ed