[Mike Kujbida]

Are you talking about a miniDVD disc or a regular (full size) DVD?

If it’s a miniDVD, Vegas recently (6.0c or d) added scene detection because users asked for it. I’m not sure if it can be turned off the way it can for a mini DV tape.

If it’s a regular DVD, by default they’re split into chunks of approx. 1 GB each and there’s nothing you can do about it.

DVD was originally designed as a delivery medium,not an editable one.
The audio dropouts are due to the way a DVD is encoded and, short of doing a quick audio crossfade at the edit point, there’s not too much you can do about it.

[Mike Kujbida]

As suggested by someone in another forum, maybe Jonathon just needs the basics of stills editing.

Options > Preferences > Editing.
Check the Box “Automatically overlap multiple selected media when added”.
Set the time in the “Cut-to-overlap conversion” box (this will determine the length of the overlap between events).

Select the media in your Project Media and drag all the events to the timeline at once. The events will automatically give you a fade the length that you set.

[Mike Kujbida]

From the Vegas 6.0 Help menu (same for Vegas 7.0):

Running a script
From the Tools menu, choose Scripting.

Choose a script from the submenu or choose Run Script from the submenu to browse to the script file (.vb or .js) you want to run.

Adding scripts to the Scripting menu
When you start the program, Vegas software looks at the Script Menu folder in the Vegas program folder to determine which scripts appear in the Scripting submenu. This folder is c:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas 6.0\Script Menu by default.

Add or delete scripts in the Script Menu folder to change the contents of the submenu.

From the Tools menu, choose Scripting, and then choose Rescan Script Menu Folder to update the menu.

[Mike Kujbida]

I’m not Don but I’ll try.
Open the Event Pan/Crop window and then do right click-match output aspect.

BTW, jeditdv (Edward Troxel) has a number of newsletters on his site that are highly recommended reading.

[Mike Kujbida]

If I’m not mistaken, the script you’re looking for is called Set Event Length And Crossfade.
It can be found at the link I posted in the “randome transitions on Vegas 7” thread.
Make sure to do a “Select All” events (CTRL+A) or this won’t work properly.

[Mike Kujbida]

Use the Apply Transitions script that’s a part of this collection. It’s the first link at the top of the page.

[Mike Kujbida]

Sure can. Go to the Tutorial Center site. It’s the second tutorial listed.
There’s a few other interesting ones there as well.

[Mike Kujbida]

WMV – ugh!!!
Uncompressed AVI – not necessary and, as you discovered, HUGE files.

You have 2 choices.
#1. Render as DV-AVI and choose the “Fit to Disc” option in DVD Architect when the appropriate page comes up.
#2. Render separate audio (AC-3) and video (MPEG-2) streams from Vegas and then import these into DVD Architect.
You’ll need to set the bitrate for a 2hr. video using a bitrate calculator, available all over the place. Google for one.
Select the “DVD Architect NTSC video stream” template in Vegas but then click “Custom” and then “Video”.
Here is where you can set it for CBR or VBR.
According to the bitrate calculator I use, I get a CBR of 4,700,000 or a VBR of 8,000,000, 4,700,000 and 2,800,000.
Which one to use? Very generically speaking, use CBR if there’s not a lot of motion or differences in light levels. If this isn’t the case, then use the VBR option.

[Mike Kujbida]

Courtesy of Edward Troxel:
How do I open AVI files create by still cameras?
In a nutshell, it’s an MJPEG codec and it’ll cost you $19 – $20 for one.
I know, I’ve bought one just for this purpose.

[Mike Kujbida]

Is the Preview window set to Draft mode (Auto or Full)?
If so, set it to (at the very least) Preview mode and you should see an improvement. For the highest possible quality, set it to Best (Auto or Full).