[George Wing]

If you drag a button to be the first item under a menu in the Project Overview tree structure, it will become the default highlight button for that menu…

From the DVDA Help File:
<<< A menu's default button is automatically selected when a menu is displayed. In the Project Overview window, a menu's first button is used as the default selected button. You can override the default button by specifying a destination button in the Button Properties, Media Properties, Music Compilation Properties, and Picture Compilation Properties controls. You can drag titles in the Project Overview window to change the default button. In the following example, the Band Members button is the default button on the "The Wayfaring Stranger" menu. my edit: the picture from the help file is not shown here, but it has a menu tree structure, and the first item under the menu is the one listed above... >>>

Regards,
George

[George Wing]

What format is your video source?

What are your computer specs?

What type of editing will you be doing? Straight cuts (some titles and transitions). Or will you be adding complex composites, or using those Magic Bullet looks (which take “forever” to render)?

When you render, are you going to mpeg from your Vegas timeline, or letting the DVD Authoring do the render? Or worse, rendering twice?

Based on how/what you edit, you might be able to tweak your workflow to get overall faster results…

Regards,
George

[George Wing]

aha! I did not have that “Active Take” option selected. Now I see it shows the speed percentage!

Thanks,
George

[George Wing]

Hi,

Speaking of the CTL/Resize method, is there a way to have a little box appear to show the playback speed of the clip as you drag left/right? Similar to how that little window appears when you overlap two clips — it tells you how much time the overlap is…

Thanks,
George

[George Wing]

Couple of things (probably others)…

1) are you using VBR encoding? If so, did bitrates “spike” above the max
2) how many audio tracks are you using? Combine them with the video and you might be over the top…

Regards,
George

[George Wing]

Vegas 6.0d will import as well, but it seems to convert imported AC3 to mpeg audio. Is anyone able to import from DVD, and retain the AC3 audio???

George

[George Wing]

ok, I’m getting real close to buying this software 🙂

Ever since Alex’s original review(s), and now this new one, it’s making me want to jump in…

My concern is the price. We’ve seen it go from $800 down to just over $100 in a short amount of time. If I jump in today, will I get burned only to find it on sale next week for less? And how are they with upgrade paths?

Thanks everyone for the time and effort in putting together these great reviews…

Regards,
George

[George Wing]

You can also do this in PC software like DVD Architect 3.x and DVD Labpro — they use a function called “Playlists”

I’m sure there are other packages that allow you to do this…

Regards,
George

[George Wing]

There could be pUOPS turned on — prevent user operations.

Did you Author the DVD’s, or are they retial or from someone else?

Regards,
George

[George Wing]

It could be your capture device and/or method. And also based on your original video properties.

I’ve seen that garbled thin line on many analog-to-dv conversions using devices like digital camcorders that have an analog-to-dv pass thru feature, or realtime mpeg encoders, etc…

If your source was DV, and you transferred to dv .avi onto your computer, then I would think something is wrong (because the original dv source should have been captured at full d1 resolution). But if you captured an analog video source, then that thin grbled line is pretty common.

Did you look closely at your dvd. Look for something near the outer edges during playback on your computer. Then see if that gets cutoff when viewing on your tv…

Regards,
George