[Paul Gregory]

Oph’s I found my mistake. Problem fixed.

Thanks in advance

[Paul Gregory]

As you said more & more screens use progressive scan. All of my DVD players & TV screens are. Perhaps the way I should be going especially when making dvds for my home usage would be to have a PC connected directly to a large LCD screen that has PC input. You could potentially be sitting back in a comfortable chair & useing a cordless mouse & keyboard.

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[Paul Gregory]

I’m definitely zoomed in far enough that I’m moving just one frame at a time. The thing is that never before when zoomed in at that level had I seen a thumbnail displayed on the time line for a frame that does not appear in that left hand clip anymore.

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[Paul Gregory]

Thanks for the replay. All my DVD players & my TV screens support progressive scan so I suppose that if I want the best DVD I’ll have to use some other authoring program. This seems like a retrograde step to have to do this.

Thanks in advance

[Paul Gregory]

Thanks guys. I copied it to the clipboard, then opened it in paint where it was saved as a BMP. From there it was pasted onto the end of a clip on the Vegas time line. This clip was my first play file. The picture was of the first view of the scene where my play all or scene selection options were displayed.

It all works OK except for one tiny thing. It appears that the size of the picture is a slightly different size but its only out my a pixel or two.

Thanks in advance

[Paul Gregory]

I’m aware of that. Originally I was asked to put 10 on a page & now I am asked for just 6. I suppose that I will just have to insert pages into completed project & then cut & paste thumbnails from one page to another unless there is a simpilar way.

Thanks in advance

[Paul Gregory]

I’m aware of that. Originally I was asked to put 10 on a page & now I am asked for just 6. I suppose that I will just have to insert pages into completed project & then cut & paste thumbnails from one page to another unless there is a simpilar way.

Thanks in advance

[Paul Gregory]

I guess that my thinking was faulty. I had supposed that if put the same amount of data into a smaller frame then the data would not need to be spread out as thinly. Apparently I was wrong.

It would have also been nice to been able to sharpen the video but I know that the sharpen tool often doesn’t produce acceptable results.

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[Paul Gregory]

Both files were just standard MPEG2 files created in Vegas & therefore should be compliant.

The anti flicker filter wasn’t turned on. Just to see if I could see where the problem was I opened a second instance of DVDA 3 & only dragged the 2 questionable files onto the workplace, then looked at the optimize DVD function & the correct size was displayed. I then turned on the anti flicker filter but this didn’t change the estimated output size. I’m not going to waste any more time on this just move on.

I must confess that I was surprised that you said that turning on the anti flicked filer would result in the re rendering of any MPEG2 files. I have seen several questions posted in these forums that always went unanswered about deinterlace filters. Like for instance Vegas allows you to render a MPEG2 file using progressive scan & DVDA apparently doesn’t so what does DVDA do when its asked to make a DVD that contains progressive scan input? Does it just accept it as is or does it re render to interlaced?

Thanks in advance

[Paul Gregory]

I must have been having a senior moment. I can’t think why I said I tried capturing using DVDA 3 since I used Vegas.

Thanks in advance