[Adam Rose esq.]

download a trial version and give it a bash

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the only real answer

[Adam Rose esq.]

can’t you just upgrade the edition via the System Properties (win key + Pause)?

haven’t done it myself, but might get around a reinstall….

[Adam Rose esq.]

vegas studio supports avchd to the timeline….

[Adam Rose esq.]

lol, there you go

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right on the money

[Adam Rose esq.]

it is as simple as dragging it from the explorer window into the timeline, below the main audio track. Just did it now, so am not sure why your audio isn’t working.

once done, can select audio during preview, to make sure all is working.

try dragging something from your music folder, i.e. mp3 or similar, to exclude any audio you have rendered yourself (eliminate variables)

you could also use the ‘+’ button on the timeline toolbar to add an extra audio track, then click TRACK MEDIA in top right properties window, and then REPLACE the audio for that new track.

[Adam Rose esq.]

drag and drop the existing buttons on to your menu

then change it’s properties (property pane, usually on RHS of screen) to set the media for that button – just browse for the audio/video files

you can create custom buttons in photoshop. it’s quite complex. Search for Layered Graphics Files in the help.

[Adam Rose esq.]

understood – YOUR triangles need to be irregular sizes etc, because you be drawing them freehand, right? and DVDA only makes them uniform etc etc

pity you don’t jhave vegs, since doing all the menus in vegas is easy as pie, since one can use bezier masking

know about the photoshop stuff in theory, but never used it. quite finicky stuff, unfortunately. look in the online help for DVDA – Layered Graphics Files.

[Adam Rose esq.]

somewhere on your screen will be 4 tabs, EXPLORER, THEMES, BUTTONS, BACKGROUNDS

1) find the triangle button, and drop it 3 times on your menu
2) click and delete the text from each button
3) select a button, and click on the word MEDIA in your Properties pane (usually docked on RHS of screen)
4) under Thumbnail Properties, click Thumbnail Media and choose REPLACE.
5) find first looping video you want to use
6) do same to other 2 buttons
7) set the STYLE property further down, of each button, to ANIMATED
8) select all 3 buttons, choose HIGHLIGHT in Properties pane, and change STYLE to custom

ok, that gets you the animated triangles. If you want any of them to be actual links, you would set the MEDIA property in top right to appropriate video/audio for each button. You would also prob want to alter the HIGHLIGHT /STYLE property to something else other than CUSTOM (eg to UNDERLINE) so the user knows when they have selected a triangle.

alternatively, if none of the triangles are to act as buttons, you will add your actual videos by simply drag n dropping them, via the Explorer tab, on to your menu and making suitable adjustments, and then altering the order of the buttons (dragging them) in the tree structure pane on the LHS.

hope this helps. not sure if have understood you completely.

[Adam Rose esq.]

well, you could drag three triangular buttons from the BUTTONS tab on to your menu, then set their media to the 3 videos on your drive, and set the Media style to animated…….

BTW, what version of DVD Architect are you using?

[Adam Rose esq.]

normalise shortcut:

OPTIONS /CUSTOMISE KEYBOARD / GLOBAL

find EDIT.EVENT.NORMALIZE & click on it

click in the shortcut key box, create a shortcut (eg CTRL SHIFT N or something) and click ADD

done

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can’t find one for channels, though would be useful