Peter Wright
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To make a viewable DVD, DVD Architect will convert the avi into an MPEG2 file – this is standard for DVDs.
The easiest way is to create a single movie DVD, which will simply play that movie. You can also create menus to make it more interactive, with Scene selection to allow viewing to start at any chapter.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
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DVDArchitect is a video DVD authoring program – it seems you are trying to just copy a file rather than author a DVD.
You need to simply copy the avi as a data file using Nero or a similar program such as Record Now DX.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
To change a thumbnail still, select the button then go to Media > Thumbnail Propeties > Start time.
Click on the right hand side to bring up a slider to select still frame or you can type in timecode.If you want, you can use any jpg or different video as thumbnail – select the button, find the file in Explorer and drop it onto the Button Properties / Media / Thumbnail Media directory.
Further down this directory you can tweak Brightness / Contrast / Colorize and Alpha transparency
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Yes, Vegas and DVDArchitect have a PAL or NTSC widescreen template – I use this for all my Z1 HDV to DVD projects.
Whether they show on TV as 16:9 from DVD usually depends on Set Up settings on DVD Players.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
I don’t use it myself Barend, but it could be very useful if you have lots of “library” clips that you want access to any time, including stock footage, background loops, sound effects, music loops etc.
One thing it does is allow you to add as many tags as you wanht to each clip, so you can create your own cross-references – maybe you have a street scene which you could allocate tags such as “street”, “taxis”, “traffic”, Manhattan”, “skyscrapers” etc so you could find it via any of these search terms.
I tend to shoot separate footage for each project, and keep it carefully organised in folders for each project, so Explorer does the job for me.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Thomas, as you have already captured three hours worth, here is a way you can not only “split” the footage, but also sort it into useful order, if necessary.
Open a clip in the trimmer, and as you identify where each scene begins and ends, highlight this part and hit “R” to create a Region. You can give this Region a name, and this name can be used for sorting later – e.g. A01 Car arrives WS …. A02 Driver gets out CU ….. A03 Peeps through window …. B01 Inside lounge room … B02 CU Face at window …. and so on.
Now, if you click on the floppy icon above the Trimmer, these Regions will be saved and now when you view the clip in Vegas Explorer, Region View, the Regions will be listed. By clicking on one of the column headers, you can sort the Regions acoording to the information in that column, either ascending or descending (click agaon to toggle). So, if you click on the Region name header, the clips can be sorted in the edit order of your scenes.
These “virtual subclips” can be lifted straight from Explorer view to the timeline, or can be double clicked to reopen them in the Trimmer. (There is a Preference Option to double click to open in Trimmer – if this is not enabled double clicking will send the clip or Region to the Timeline.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Veg files from previous versions should open up normally – the only caveat being that once they’re saved in V6 they can’t be re-opened in V5, so it’s wise to Save as to leave the previous veg unchanged.
I don’t know why yours are behaving this way. I normally leave the previous version on the computer when installing a new one, but this should make no difference.
I can only suggest uninstalling and reinstalling.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
You may be able to do this in the Text generator if you have the Fonts installed, but since the Chinese characters are so different this may be difficult.
One way would be to use psd or png graphic files with transparent alpha backgrounds.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Depends on what sort of MPEG2s you’re using. If you use a template such as “DVD NTSC(PAL)” this will include audio, but if you use “DVDArchitect NTSC(PAL) Video Stream” you then need to render the audio separately, either as PCM wav or ac3.
Make sure they have the same name as the video stream and are in the same folder, then DVDA will find them automatically.Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Thanks Ed – good to see the programming perspective.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au