[Michael O’connor]

Thanks guys, this gives me some additional ideas. I appreciate it.

[Michael O’connor]

Thanks for all your help. I can try to answer some of your questions.
Using Memorex DVD-R
I used Sony Vegas 7 to render one Dolby Digital AC3 audio file , and one MPEG2 video file.
Then and used DVD Architect-4 to compile DVD.
The MPEG2 total file size was 1.75G.

The DVD menu screen would come up, and let me choose to play the DVD on some players, but not on all. On some players it didn’t recognize the disc at all. The attempt was made in machines I have and in machines my client has. For both of us sometimes it would bring up the menu screen and sometimes nothing at all, so I sort of ruled out a bad machine.

I am inclined to think bad burner, but wouldn’t that make the disc not play in any machine?

I have created DVD’s in this same machine without problems, which could mean the DVD itself is bad. I am going to try to use a different burner and see if that works.

Thanks for all your help.

[Michael O’connor]

Super!! Worked like a champ. Thanks for you help.

[Michael O’connor]

Thank you for your response, Phil.

Yes I am familiar with ‘ripple editing’and yes I agree it is a valued attribute.

I apologize for not making my question clear. My question was how do I make a split through all track layers at the point I want to begin taking a section out of all of them, and then the point I want the section to end, and deleting the selected section through all track layers so that ripple can work? I thought using ctrl A (selecting all tracks), placing the cursor where the start point would be and hitting ‘s’ for split, then doing the same for the end point of where I want the section to end would work but it doesn’t seem to.

Thanks for any ideas.

[Michael O’connor]

That did it. Thanks so much for your help. Have a great day!

[Michael O’connor]

I’m not certain if that will work since in order to be able to get the iris and flash effects I bring an empty event into the start of the new photo and drop iris into that. Is there a way to create the effect stand-alone so all I need do is drop it onto a timeline above the two pictures?
Currently:
Three tracks
Trk three first pic with second pic overlayed enough to put a flash in the transitional point.
Track two is the sound efx
Track one is a copy of the second picture with an empty event layed over the first part of it to be able to lay an iris in the transitional part.
I am going to try to send along a veg file for you to look at. I didn’t get a link back when I tried to upload it so I’m not sure if it came or not. Thanks.

[Michael O’connor]

Steve I checked out the link and it has it listed at $189 and $199. Is there any other link for the June special at $133?

[Michael O’connor]

Thanks for the heads up Steve! That’s a good savings.

[Michael O’connor]

thanks for all the help. Have a great week!

[Michael O’connor]

You have really helped, thank you! One last question, do you know if there is an upgrade version from 7 to 11 that is less expensive than just buying the version 11 I see advertised at $599?