[Joseph Tessier]

Right click the audio track’s header (far left), then Insert/Remove Envelope, Volume. This will place the volume bar through the track. You can then insert points (double click on bar) where you can increase or decrease segments of the audio (search help: adjusting envelopes).

J. Paul

System Specs: I7 3.4 Ghz Quad Core 16GB Ram Win 7 Home Prem x64 VP 10/11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550

[Joseph Tessier]

Apparently so. If I create a Blu-ray using 3 avc files from Sony, the only problem is trying to skip from the last chapter of a given title to the first chapter in the next title. However, it will play through to the next chapter or I can call up the menu where I have all the chapter links. With 40 chapters I may just live with that as I don’t relish adding the chapters manually in DVDA.

J. Paul

System Specs: I7 3.4 Ghz Quad Core 16GB Ram Win 7 Home Prem x64 VP 10/11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550

[Joseph Tessier]

Mark, I believe you just place your cursor at the top edge of the clip in question and when your cursor changes to the arc “Fade Offset” you just click/drag an appropriate amount of time.

J. Paul

System Specs: I7 3.4 Ghz Quad Core 16GB Ram Win 7 Home Prem x64 VP 10/11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550

[Joseph Tessier]

[John Rofrano] “There is. It’s call SmartLabs tsMuxeR and it’s free. tsMuxeR allows you to join multiple AVC files together without re-rendering. Just load your files with the Join button and it will make them into one file.”

Yes! I played with some small avc segments and got them to work as a unit. Thanks AGAIN!

J. Paul

System Specs: I7 3.4 Ghz Quad Core 16GB Ram Win 7 Home Prem x64 VP 10/11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550

[Joseph Tessier]

Robert,

This is fascinating stuff! I will look into your other post and study your process.

I’m probably going to limit my BD to about 2 hours or so even though it appears that I could get 3 hours comfortably on one disk. Still, the way I’m currently set up to do it my render might take 6 hours and if I needed to change something… ouch! Your process seems to allow me do essentially do what I do in Vegas – work in smaller chunks so that if there is a need to refine, it only involves that chunk.

I would like to see either a revision of DVDA or 3rd party software that would allow a simple solution for “stitching” those avc files to play as one movie.

Thanks for your tips!

J. Paul

System Specs: I7 3.4 Ghz Quad Core 16GB Ram Win 7 Home Prem x64 VP 10/11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550

[Joseph Tessier]

Success!

My new blu-ray has 13 chapters, 61 minutes of content that fills up only 30% of the disk.

I used my nested projects and rendered out to Sony AVC=Blu-ray 1920×1080-60i, 16 Mbps video stream (*.avc). It took about 3 hours!
The audio was rendered out using Dolby Digital AC-3 (stereo).

Imported both files into DVDA, created a menu, and rendered out using correct project specs to *.iso – only took 3 minutes!

Burned the re-writeable disk in 28 minutes and it looks, sounds, plays flawlessly.

The only thing I wish I could speed up is the 3-hour render, but on the other hand I didn’t sit there and watch it! 🙂

Thanks for helping me learn this process, John!

J. Paul

System Specs: I7 3.4 Ghz Quad Core 16GB Ram Win 7 Home Prem x64 VP 10/11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550

[Joseph Tessier]

[John Rofrano] “What you want to do to avoid multiple renders is to drop all of your projects into a master project as “nested” projects. You can then extract the chapter markers into your main project and render the whole thing as if it were one big file and each project will only be rendered once.”

OK, I’ll give it a go and report back here my results.

Thanks for your support!

J. Paul

System Specs: I7 3.4 Ghz Quad Core 16GB Ram Win 7 Home Prem x64 VP 10/11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550

[Joseph Tessier]

[John Rofrano] “What is a “storyboard”? I know of no storyboard function in Vegas.”

Oops, I reverted to my old software. I meant VP timeline/project.

[John Rofrano] “I don’t understand why rendering twice works better than rendering once? Why not just render once to the proper format?”

I need to be able to skip to the next chapter and/or title. It appears in DVDA that you can only skip a chapter within a title while playing. Since I’ve rendered each project separately to avoid rendering twice, I end up with several titles. Am I missing something? Is there a way to “stitch” titles together so DVDA sees it as one title? That seems to be where I’m confused.

J. Paul

System Specs: I7 3.4 Ghz Quad Core 16GB Ram Win 7 Home Prem x64 VP 10/11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550

[Joseph Tessier]

[Andrew Lenczycki] “When you say you “ended up with several titles” are you referring to several individual rendered segments from Vegas, which when combined comprise your entire project, or is it ONE large project that is comprised of several “titles”?”

I have varying amount of chapters in my Vegas storyboards ranging from 1 chapter to 5. I rendered out each project in Vegas to *.m2ts, then created a new Vegas project with all the *.m2ts files assembled. Then I rendered again so that all the chapters would be in one large file.

[Andrew Lenczycki] “What are you referring to in “the “next” button won’t skip to the next title – only the next chapter within titles”?”

I imported that large file into DVDA and created a menu with all 13 chapters on a page. When the disk is played, it goes to the menu. You can start with any chapter and it will play through from that point. Also, MOST IMPORTANTLY, you can press “next” or “skip” to go to the next chapter.

However, when I tried what John suggested…
[John Rofrano] “I also would not render from a render. Render your Blu-ray version directly from the project itself for maximum quality.”

…I ended up with several titles, some with chapters, some without. Now I can’t skip to the next chapter if I’m playing a title that has no chapters or if I’m playing the last chapter of a title.

J. Paul

System Specs: I7 3.4 Ghz Quad Core 16GB Ram Win 7 Home Prem x64 VP 10/11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550

[Joseph Tessier]

Since I rendered from the storyboards, I ended up with several titles. Therefore, the “next” button won’t skip to the next title – only the next chapter within titles. Looks like I’m going to have to stick with my mehod of rendering from a render… a bit more time consuming but I was pleased with the quality and the entire disk can be chaptered.

J. Paul

System Specs: I7 3.4 Ghz Quad Core 16GB Ram Win 7 Home Prem x64 VP 10/11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550