Allen Zagel
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Well, I check and re-checked. I rendered the first play intro to MPEG-2 DVDA right in Vegas.
Now it doesn’t freeze in DVDA’s preview but after creating the DVD and trying it on my TV upstairs, there’s still that 5 second frame freeze before going into the menu.
Anyone have any siggestions? Gary Help!
AllenMy web site features;
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In scaling stills, Vegas likes 655 x 480 png. However if you plan to do a lot of pan/crop and track motion, higher res and larger photos are better.
For example I am completing a DVD that has video and still photos with pan/crop. I used the original camera photos of 1798 x 1199 @ 300dpi and checked the “reduce Interlace flicker” box on the timeline. This way I could zoom right in close.
It was probably overkill but it worked great for me. I use either PNG or photoshop PSD only on the timeline.
AllenMy web site features;
China, China Railways and music.
https://www.azagel.comVideo site;
https://www.asxmediaproductions.com -
Hi Ed
Is this update for all users of Excalibur 4 or just those using Vegas 6.x? I’m still using Vegas 5.0dAllen
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I found the very same thing going from DVDA-1 to DVDA-2. I got 2h 15m on a DVDA-1 DVD but not on a DVDA-2. I know some of the reasons. One reason was that DVDA-1 did not put a counter on the DVD. You know that counter showing time and chapter numbers you see on the fron of the DVD player? DVDA-2 start3ed that automatically. Plus some other items I never figured out made the project larger in DVDA-2 than 1.
As mentioned in the first reply, I was also told here in the Cow Forum that anything over about 1h 15m bring the AVI file into DVDA-x and click the “fit-to-disc” option and let DVDA-2 figure it out. I did and my last DVD came out great, but was only about 1’45”.
I suggest you try doing the same on a long video and see how it comes out.
AllenMy web site features;
China, China Railways and music.
https://www.azagel.comVideo site;
https://www.asxmediaproductions.com -
Glad you liked it. It was just a fun thing. I sent to those who were involved. The friends and musicians. I’ll have to check that edit you mentioned.
Allen
My web site features;
China, China Railways and music.
https://www.azagel.comVideo site;
https://www.asxmediaproductions.com -
I think so Ed. I haven’t had Heroglyph installed in quite a while since I had hard drive and MoBo problems and finally bought 2 new computers. Now I’m getting everything installed again.
However I did what I wanted. took me about 2 hours but I did it using pan/crop keyframes.
You’ll see it as I’m sending you and Gary a DVD when it’s finished.
Allen
My web site features;
China, China Railways and music.
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I found what I was looking for…
https://www.wideopenwest.com/~wvg/tutorial-4.htm
….but now I got to figure it out.
AllenMy web site features;
China, China Railways and music.
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https://www.asxmediaproductions.com -
Thanks
Ed, I already have Heroglyph. I got it when they had that special deal a year of so ago. I’ll have to look.Steve, It’s not a line I need to animate. It’s a small area of a larger map I need to follow. Now like a small pan/crop box following a line on a map.
Allen
My web site features;
China, China Railways and music.
https://www.azagel.comVideo site;
https://www.asxmediaproductions.com -
What you need to do in simple terms is before you do your DVD project, right click on the start menu and click explore. Then go to one of your hard drives and create a empty folder with a name you’ll remember. Don’t put anything in that folder! Not even the VIDEO TS and AUDIO TS folders as DVDA will create them for you.
This is a simple thing that most of us forget to do sometimes, and then have problems as you’re having.
Allen
My web site features;
China, China Railways and music.
https://www.azagel.comVideo site;
https://www.asxmediaproductions.com -
Okay. Thanks Ed.
Project is finished and on the VCD’s. If you and Gary would like to see one, send me your address in Email and I’ll send you one. They’re gong to some family and friends in China. The video was taken there.
Excalibur 4’s really great aftrer I figured out how to do a few things correctly. Watched the DVD 3 times and finally got it. 😉
Allen
My web site features;
China, China Railways and music.
https://www.azagel.comVideo site;
https://www.asxmediaproductions.com