[Randy Elwin]

Not to go off in the weeds here but I’ve burned 100’s of DVDs with DVDA 4, 4.5, and now 5 and hadn’t seen this type of problem. For this error the disc is not recognized in other computers, meaning no file structure appears. This is similar to when you burn a data disc and forget to “close” it — other computers can’t read it.

However, I was surprised when my DVD players played it, thus my comment on CC — just in case anyone else experiences a similar problem.
–r.e.

[Randy Elwin]

Out of curiosity I selected “view->media manager” and the pop up says “the media manager is not installed.”
I have Vegas 7 installed with media manager 2.2 before installing Pro 10.

[Randy Elwin]

System restore is risky as I’ve recently swapped motherboards.
Cineform recommended Vegas re-install and it works properly now. grrr…
On a good note NEO Scene ran over 2x faster on a i5 quad compared to my old Core2Duo.

[Randy Elwin]

Here’s a method using MS Excel and PowerPoint.
In Excel, open a new workbook:
1) 1st cell, A1, enter:
0:00:00
2) Next cell down (A2), enter this formula:
=A1+”0:00:01″

3) copy/paste formula in A2 down a column, each cell represents 1 second.
This creates a 1-second incrementing time list. Changing the first cell (A1) changes the starting time.
Save workbook as a text file (MSDOS). For this example, call it “time.txt” .

In PowerPoint:
4) Select new blank presentation
5) “Insert -> Slides from Files…”
Select “time.txt” file. This creates a slide for every time item.

6) Select all slides and use “Format” to change font, size, colors. Don’t think it’s possible to use an alpha channel as a transparent background. Red letters on black background are a good start.

7) “File->Save As…” select jpg, gif, png, bmp, etc.
Select “Yes” upon prompt to save every slide in the selected folder.
A set of image files are created, sized 720×540 pixels.

8) Using your editor, import the set of image files to a timeline. If you configure the default picture import duration as 1 second you’ll have an accurate clock counter.

Somewhat tedious but it works…
–r.e.

[Randy Elwin]

Using DVDA 4.0 I ran into this when having two menu items referencing the same movie (as in “play once”, “play repeat”). Using an existing subtitled project I added 1 more subtitle item and “Disc Space Used” jumped to 7.6G. I then deleted the second menu reference and the disc space went down to normal. I then re-did the menu item (by copy/edit) and this worked ok.
Not sure why subtitles trigger this.
–r.e.