Eddie Mccracken
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Genero,
I get the same thing, but I kinda just plan on it since I dont use a calibrated CRT monitor like the pros. You can almost tell how dark a shadow is going to be once you get used it.
Nature of the beast!
Eddie McCracken
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Agreed… this is fascinating stuff. I can’t wait to immerse myself in it.
Thanks Steve!!
Eddie McCracken
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Thanks to Jeff Schroeder and Steve Mann! Burn successful!
For all the whiners you must deal with day in and day out, please let me express a heartfelt graditude to the service you offer here. You walked me thru the trenches of Vegas Pro 11 to make my deadline and I’ll never forget that. You’ve also opened a whole new thought process as to the many ways one can skin a cat.
I know Vegas pro 11 is going to present more challenges to many people, but for what I do I feel I can navigate forward with hope!
Many Thanks!
Eddie McCracken
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Eureka!! Two Victories!
My disc drive was not connected right but is now, and per Jeff Schroeder’s advice regarding rendering to avoid freezing at 84% I have successfully rendered and burned a short project on vegas Pro 11/DVD Architect 5!
Thanks Jeff! And thanks Steve too. I’m off to see if I can re-render all 3 discs worth of my main feature (plus menus) and use your method to conquer and burn the Vegas blues away.
I’ll let you know how it works out!
Eddie McCracken
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Okay… we close, very close!
I took a 3 minute short as a warm up and rendered it the exact way you said (great directions/makes perfect sense). Once in DVDA, I threw up a static house menu with one thing only on it… the 3 minute short film rendered properly. I then prepared it and WHAM! quick as ever. No problems. Now when I go to burn DVD, I select the right project and I get all the way to the end it is ‘grayed out’. Where it says Make DVD/Select Burn parameters for burning disc. EJECT LOAD ADVANCED and so forth…… I double checked everything, restarted my computer, and to make things worse I can’t seem to ‘print screen’ to give you a pic.
I have never seen that screen grayed out before. Any ideas?
Eddie McCracken
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I’m going in tonight for the old college try. I assume I should render my deleted scenes and 2 minute short called pink sand the exact same way and replace them respectively in DVDA the same way too?
Great instructions btw… much oblidged! Can’t wait to try them tonight.
Eddie McCracken
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Kind words… and a great eye! You may possess even more patience than I. I have 500 plus hours into this project. It is actually 161 minutes spread over 3 discs, but I will take good notes and repeat the steps for disc 2 and 3.
I’m going to owe you big time man.
Eddie McCracken
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Jeff,
Okay, I tried my best to do what you said. Man is this frustrating. I think if I am going to benefit and succeed from your instruction, it will be because you know that I don’t understand a lot of the terms you use and i hear what you’re saying but I have no idea how to do it. I mean I know how to open Vegas, I import the media, I can edit it and add music and sounds, and I ‘thought’ I knew how to render it and then go to DVDA and assemble it to behave like a real DVD that you could be proud to hand out to family and friends.
By the way, when i look at my original properties in DVDA before I try to render (or as Steven said ‘assemble’ since DVDA only prepares) the properties are spot on what you said: NTSC DV Widescreen (720×480 29.970 fps) Mpeg-2, Bitrate of 8. So those settings may not be causing the error/freeze at 84%. It just seems a little suspect that I nail 18 straight projects in Sony Movie Studio 9 (same interface) using Sony DVD Arch 4.5 to prepare and burn, then I get Sony Vegas Pro 11 and it’s buggy and DVDA 5.2 does this freeze thing. I’m trying to get past that, but it is hard. I preview the whole thing and its beautiful, but it ain’t on a disc to put into my dvd player for viewing. I’ve been editing on this since last August!
Per your advice, I opened a new vegas project with your suggested properties and I dropped in the entire file for my feature. Nothing populated the timeline, but I was able to open the file in the trimmer. It would play in the trimmer but the main video’s audio was all you could see or hear. music gone. sound effects gone. Figuring i know very little, I tried to render it anyway and got an error: something to the effect of ‘it could not open a certain video stream’. Maybe if i understood the concept of what angle were takling to make this work I might grasp it better. I don’t know what MainConcept Mpeg-2 means. It is not in the software’s glossary. A lesser man might start to cry about right now… but I just get upset that it don’t work, even though every step to completing this project seemed like it was dead on until i want to prepare and burn. I got to the final step and IT says “NO”. Not today.
I have no idea how to make happen your advice from earlier…. I am second guessing everything I do as I try to comply with it. Nothing seems or looks right as I go along. I’m bloody lost bro.
Eddie McCracken
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Thanks guys, to all! I have a busy weekend trying all of this out. I will be in touch. Much appreciated on all fronts. Thanks!
Eddie McCracken
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Got it… the links are there now! (see previous post)
Sorry… I’m going to owe you all a beer when this is over.
You’re all very kind to put up with me. I’m learning.
Eddie McCracken