[Richard Klimesh]

“I’ve tried this… Render the .avi clips as MPEG/ac3 and add to DVD3… This requires a Menu-based structure… not a problem… but the clips freeze momentarily before moving onto the next clip.”

Steve –
I’ve eliminated the pause between files by making the last half second of one file the same still scene (or fade to black or pattern or whatever) as the first half second of the following file. Then they play straight through with no blip. I don’t know if you can design all the clips in your project to utilize this trick but if you could then you could render them all to MPEG in Vegas before bringing them to DVDA. That way the clips you use repeatedly would only have to be rendered once.

Also, since your opening and closing are always the same, at least render those to MPEG from Vegas before dropping them into DVDA.

[Richard Klimesh]

According to Google it looks like I could use either term:

Caption: A series of words superimposed on the bottom of television or motion picture frames that communicate dialogue to the hearing-impaired or translate foreign dialogue.

Subtitle: In films and television subtitles are textual versions of the dialogue that appear onscreen.

Closed subtitle: Optionally-appearing subtitles are called “closed” subtitles. Subtitles that cannot be turned off are “open”. A film or video with open subtitles that are burned indelibly into the image is deemed to be “hardsubbed”.

Closed captions: Closed captions for the hard of hearing are related to subtitles but are quite separate, given that these captions are a transcription rather than a translation and have a different intended purpose.

[Richard Klimesh]

Thanks, Edward. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

[Richard Klimesh]

The .dar file is here: https://www.horsekeeping.com/Rpersonal/ElCaballo-rough-9.dar

The problem buttons are on Page 3 and are called “The Family”, “The Foal”, and “Growing Up”.

As I mentioned, on the previous version of this file, the buttons work fine and as far as I can tell are exactly the same. Thanks for your interest and I hope you find something.

[Richard Klimesh]

I opened the last saved version of the project and navigation through all the buttons works fine, so I am forging ahead from that point to meet my today’s deadline for the master.

I would be happy to post the .dar file on my website for you to download (alas, my 21.4 connection makes emailing the 1,378KB file impractical).

[Richard Klimesh]

I don’t know how to get it either, and I wish I didn’t have it! I’ve tried deleting and replace a troublesome button with the same results.

[Richard Klimesh]

Thanks, Gary.

[Richard Klimesh]

Rick, you might try linking “end action” to the actual name of the menu rather than to “most recent menu”.

[Richard Klimesh]

Number of Rendering Threads was set to 2.
RAM preview was set to 150 and changing it to 0 or anywhere up to 800MB makes no difference. It still takes between 4 and 6 seconds from the time the cursor is moved until it shows up in the preview.

However, Video Preview window was set to “Preview (Auto)”, which has worked fine for all editing up to this project. When I changed it to “Draft (Full)” operation speed returned to close to normal. And for this process the resolution on Draft setting will work fine.

Thanks for your help.

[Richard Klimesh]

Thanks, Gary. I didn’t think it could be done, either, but I’d hate to be doing all this individual keyframe work if there was a quicker way.

You don’t know until you know.