[Jeff Edwards]

FYI, I just stumbled across this white paper on Sony’s website about exactly what I was looking for, although it’s a few years old and after a quick look, I think it may be nothing more than the information available when you use the ? prompt in the dialog box as you suggested. But at least it’s printable.

https://download.sonycreativesoftware.com/whitepapers/mpeg_overview.pdf

[Jeff Edwards]

Thanks. For this project, given the low quality of the original video, putting all of it on one DVD was not a big problem.

[Jeff Edwards]

There are a ton of markers, and walking through the 6-hour MPEG file to place them took forever. Guess I’ll have to re-render in Vegas, although if DVDA had worked like the documentation said, it would have been better for me. I’d much rather have a single MPEG file that I can incorporate different parts of into different DVDs using in/out points and chapter markers — just like Vegas lets you make a bunch of projects using the same video source file. Making custom renders to provide different source files for each DVD quickly eats up disk space.

[Jeff Edwards]

Ugh, thanks. To me, “burned” unambiguously means rendered, meaning only that portion goes onto the DVD. As you note, that’s what Vegas does with the equivalent of in/out points (the loop region), if you select that option in the render dialog box. What the documentation should have said is that the entire source file gets burned, and that the in/out points only affect navigation through that source file in the final DVD.

Guess I’ve lost a days work and will have to start from scratch. That is, unless there’s some workaround to take the new, shorter video file I re-render from the source file in Vegas (using the same in/out points as in DVDA), import it into my existing DVDA project, and en masse (keeping their relative positions) move or copy the chapter markers associated with the larger source file to the re-rendered clip.

[Jeff Edwards]

Thanks. Sounds like the DVD Architect documentation is wrong then. The in and out points on the DVDA timeline do not, in fact, effect how much of the source video file that is burned.

[Jeff Edwards]

I should have added the full blurb from the documentation: “Setting in and out points. You can set in and out points if you don’t want to burn the entire video file to DVD. When preparing your DVD, the software will trim the video to include only the portion between these points.”

This clearly suggests that the in and out points control how much video is rendered, and not that the entire video file is rendered with the in/out points being navigation marks only.

[Jeff Edwards]

Never mind. I see people ask Architect questions in the regular Vegas forum. I’ll do it there.