Peter Wright
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It sounds like the program that converts from avi to vob is introducing the artifacts – does it have quality variables – e.g. when exporting from Vegas as MPEG2 using a DVDA template, there are many ways to customise the quality, such as Rendering quality, video quality, cbr or vbr, change bitrate, double pass etc.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
You may be able to do a semi-manual job – depending on you first capture – did each clip retain camera time code or did each new capture start at zero?
If you do have original time code, you can recapture the whole tape in HDV as a single clip, so that the time code references can be used to replace DV with HDV.
First check that time code for an identifiable frame is identical on both, and if it’s not, just note how much offset and use this throughout.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
You didn’t say exactly how you “convert to .vob”
Normally vobs are made by a DVD authoring prog, and in Vegas the render is to MPEG2, for which there are many quality variables.
Perhaps you could decribe your rendering procedure in detail …
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
No, the chapters always initially have with numbers – on some projects this can be useful, but like you I generally go through and rename them without the number.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
When you click to Make DVD, then click Burn, there is an option to
* Prepare current project or
* Use previously prepared projectYou need to select the first option – it sounds like you used the second, which means that although you have been altering the fonts in the project, you have then been telling DVDA to burn another copy of the previously prepared version.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Under Properties in the Text Generator, drag the triangle under Text Colour to the bottom, or change the A value to 0 (same thing). This will make the text transparent, and as you say you can zoom through using Pan Crop or Track Motion.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
I think it may be because your buttons are overlapping – try either reducing their size or moving them further apart.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
No problem – I often use an “ancient” 1.6 Ghx Vaio laptop with Vegas and external F/W HD, so anything faster will be even smoother.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Chapters by definition are start points, not end points, so to achieve what you want you need to –
1. Create the second menu by “Insert Submenu” rather than Scene selection
2. On this submenu add the whole movie separately for each chapter, double click to open the timeline then drag the yellow arrows to make that instance start and end where you want. DVDA will realise that it is the same movie and not double/triple etc the space used.
Ths way, when each chapter plays it will return to the submenu, or wherever you set End Action to go.For Photoshop, do a trial template, import to DVDA and check safe areas, then adjust as necessary.
Audio levels cannot be adjusted in DVDA, so you need to set these when encoding, in Vegas or whatever you are using. If you are finding ac3’s are sounding quieter than you expect, create a custom template – I call mine “Maintain Levels” – with the following changes in settings (courtesy Edward Troxel) to the default ac3 template:
Audio Service / Dialogue normalization: Set to -31dB
Preprocessing / Line mode profile : set to None
Preprocessing / RF mode profile : Set to nonePeter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
I’m not sure if there is a way, but you could ask Michael Freerer at Pixelan – he’s very helpful.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au