[Harry Putnam]

[Mike Kujbida] “Click on the “Newsletter Contents Index” link at the top of that page.”

Ahh yes, consider my former words eaten

[Harry Putnam]

[Mike Kujbida] “The only decent training material that I’m aware of is from VASST.
It’s two DVDs called “Getting Started with DVD Architect” and “Going Deeper in DVD Architect”.
Edward Troxel covers the basics in some of the free newsletters on his site.”

Thanks again. I looked at the Newsletter Archive and was surprised to see it is organized in the most non-usable manner possible

There is not a single thing to indicate what a particular newsletter is about. And when clicked on they appear to be simply a collection of threads.

Seems an odd title to call them newsletters.

Hopefully I’m missing a better setup there somewhere?

[Harry Putnam]

[Mike Kujbida] ”
Let us know if this isn’t what you want and we’ll do our best to help you out.”

It’s really well detailed stuff.

The part beginning
“If you want to use a picture from the play as the background”

and the following 2-3 paragraphs look to be about the basics even though the main topic is a bit above beginner level.

Then picking up again at:
“Finally, let’s clean it up a bit more.”

Again, this is the stuff I need.

Thanks.

But again I wonder if there is not a fairly well produced Tutorial somewhere that is more an introduction aimed at a new user. But is based on at least a fairly recent version of DVDa.

[Harry Putnam]

[Mike Kujbida] “Harry, what are you looking to do?
I posted a rather lengthy response in the DVD scene selection markers as in comm. DVDs thread (apologies for the duplication in it) that may be of some help to you.

Let us know if this isn’t what you want and we’ll do our best to help you out.”

I haven’t studied the site yet, just commenting on the part asking what I wanted to do.

I’ve ran into troubles with Adobe Encore on occasion that meant I had to stop the project and investigate that problem until I got things running again.

I want to have a fallback so that when a deadline is looming I have more than 1 authoring tool I have some understanding of.

So I need to wallow in the basics of DVD Architect a bit.

I’ve used Vegas in a similar way many times, but have yet to convert fully to Vegas as my main production tool. I’d like to do something similar with DVD Architect.

Judging from your many helpful and thorough contributions here I suspect the site referred with be just the ticket.

[Harry Putnam]

[John Rofrano] “There is no way to keep a track selected. Every time you click on the timeline, whatever your click on gets selected. That’s usually how editing programs work, i.e., they give the focus to whatever you click on. I don’t see how else they could work. Just don’t click off of the track or be sure to reselect the last event since you are moving by events anyway (you really need to keep the last event selected).”

I see from your comments that I have missed how this really works. I had got the notion that jumping from events to event depended on the HEAD of the track being selected as it does in premiere pro.

In premier the track body and the track head are seen as different entities so a click on the track body does not also change focus of the track head.

In vegas, clicking anywhere on a track, head or the part where media goes, changes focus on all of it… that is they are not separate.

Long use of Premier has shadowed my thinking when using vegas and has caused me many problem that are not really problems at all but a continued expectation to see this nle behave like a different nle… dumb for sure but maybe somewhat unavoidable.

[Harry Putnam]

[Stewart Bourke] “Pressing J,K,L on the keyboard will allow you playback at different speeds. J plays backwards, K pauses and L plays forward. Repeated pressing J or L will speed up the reverse or forward playback…”

Nice… its similar to what you can do on Premier but even better with the reverse ability… (That may also be possible on Premiere… I’ve not noticed it but never went looking either)

I do notice the speed peaks out quite a bit slower than the similar function in premiere but still is very handy.

[Harry Putnam]

[Steve Rhoden] “Steve Rhoden Re: How to keep track selected
by Steve Rhoden on Jan 8, 2011 at 11:03:00 pm

You can try by holding down the ctrl key,
while you click on the tracks you want highlighted.
when done the tracks you want will be all selected.
“

Well yeah, I know how to select as many as I like. I’m talking about keeping them selected. Seems like about half the time I go to use the keycombo of ctrl-alt arrows to move around the edit points, I find the darn track has become unselected and of course instead of moving to the next edit point I move the cursor into the next county.

[Harry Putnam]

[Harry Putnam] “Harry Putnam Set default duration of snapshots
by Harry Putnam on Jan 7, 2011 at 9:13:33 pm

1)

I’ve been lumbering around in preferences trying to find where to set the default length of snapshots but in 10-15 minutes I haven’t found it. Maybe its elswhere?

2)

Is it possible to import a frame grab (snapshot) directly into the media bin or timeline?
“

Found number 1 staring me in the face of course, just too blind to find it. But still working on 2/

[Harry Putnam]

[Tom Pauncz] “Tom Pauncz Re: Video/Audio already split when pulled to timeline
by Tom Pauncz on Jan 7, 2011 at 8:44:44 pm

[…]

If that is what you are seeing, that is normal behaviour. They are locked (move together if you drag) unless you have clicked the “Ignore Event Grouping” icon on the toolbar (Ctrl+Shft+U).

Cheers for now,”

You nailed it first shot the Ignore Event Grouping button was active. It must stay active between sessions. since I just did open vegas and start collecting media.

That would explain what I’ve been seeing the last few times I started up vegas to do something.

[Harry Putnam]

[Harry Putnam] “Vegas 10 pro, win7 64 bit (i7 Q820)

I always have trouble keeping audio and video together in vegas. I’m sure my own doing but still its a pita.

I’ve been thinking that I was somehow separating them while editing, but just happened to start a new project and just loaded a few clips into the bin. Soon as I pulled 2 of them onto the timeline (stacked) I see they are already split.

I don’t think this is normal so I’m thinking I’ve inadvertently set something somewhere that is causing this… It would have to be Options though, since I haven’t set anything yet for this project, although have fiddled with options previously.

Can anyone verify that should NOT be already spit (audio from video) when the hit the timeline…. and if that is the case then I’d like to hear some guesses as to what I’ve done to cause this.”

I want to add something additional here:

I just discovered if I select both the Audio and Video of a clip by Ctrl-click on one and Shift-click on the other.. they both appear to be selected. Now, right click and Group/Create new

Now when I click anywhere in the timeline (off this clip)to deselect it, then come back and left mouse drag either audio or video… its still split.

Very disconcerting, but I must be missing something really basic.

I did just come off a long 10hrs of editing with Premiere pro so may be doing something on auto pilot that is causing my trouble. Or just be asleep at the switch