[Paul Gregory]

Yes my settings are at 8.50 GB. By changing it it said that my files plus the extras would only use 76% of a dual layer disk.

I notice that when its displayed this way that it say that the default bit rate is 6,000,000. The original file was presumably created using a higher bit rate since I has accepted the Vegas default figures which were mentioned in a previous posting. The only change made to the original default Vegas settings was the change from goo to best quality & from lower field first to progressive.

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[Paul Gregory]

Yes. It shows that I will only be using 76% of media even when an small extra folder is added.

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[Paul Gregory]

There is only one 4.9GB MPEG2 file the other was the much smaller AC3 file. The optomize function says that the whole project will easily fit on a dual layer disk.

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[Paul Gregory]

Thanks for that info. I was concerned because the properties of the veg files can have instructions re things like, rendering quality, progressive or interlaced output etc.

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[Paul Gregory]

I’m only using version 3 of DVDA & I can’t see that option listed. A lot of what’s listed under ‘Optomise’ doesn’t appear to allow you to alter the settings displayed. Things like recompress. I bring this up because I have had on several occasion had DVDA recompress files that didn’t need to be recompressed.

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[Paul Gregory]

Since I could not capture in Vegas I eventually turned to Windows Movie Maker 2 which is also on my machine. This capture my video & created an avi file which I can open in Vegas. WMM2 seemed to have created thumbnails for each indivual clip but in Vegas I only have one large clip. Is this normal or do I still have to do something in WMM to divided the large clip into smaller clips?

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[Paul Gregory]

Well I finally found terminal services & this problem appears to be fixed. Thanks again.

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[Paul Gregory]

Yes I will be using a dual layer disk since I don’t want recompression. I won’t try burning the disk until DVDA tells me that it won’t recompress. I also have a smaller progressive file in the project & no mention is made about wanting to recompress it. Even with this other file it said that I would be using about 80% of disks capacity.

Additionally I was thinking of adding an extra folder that contained a copy of all stills used in making the video but didn’t add it to the project yet since I am under the impression that that the DVDA calculation about what percentage of a disks capacity it will use for your project files doesn’t take these extras into consideration. Please correct me if I’m wrong?

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[Paul Gregory]

Where is teminal services on my PC. I have never heard of it before.

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[Paul Gregory]

I did what was suggested, imported the old files directly from the DVD & it worked well in fact it even split up the original into the DVD’s chapters. What I don’t understand is that one of these chapters has no audio. I went back to the DVD which was still in the DVD burner & told PowerDVD to play it & it did. When it was played here there is audio for the same chapter. Why should this be so?

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