Rob Strobbe
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“I’m trying to set the remote to resume play back from the point the stop button is pressed.”
Where a DVD begins playback when you hit Resume depends entirely on how the manufacturer has programmed that player. For you to decide what happens when the Resume button is pushed would require “re-programming” the player, something that is way beyond the capabilities of a DVD authoring app. (The DVD doesn’t get to decide — the player does.)
All you can do in DVD Architect is decide whether or not that button functions at all (meaning, is it On or is it Off). And even that, you wouldn’t be able to do for when the DVD is stopped. How can the player read instructions from a disc that isn’t currently playing? It can’t.
Rob
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I just had a similar problem this week — twice. The first was after I did a large round of house cleaning — removing programs I wasn’t using, deleting files I didn’t need, etc. Then Vegas 8 stopped loading. It quit at the same place as yours, though the error message I was getting is different. I was getting a “The memory could not be read” message — weird thing is, it was being attributed to rundll32.exe, not Vegas itself.
I went through several hoops, but the one that got me back on track was uninstalling Vegas and removing all references to Vegas 8 from Windows’ registry. (Vegas 6 was working fine, so I didn’t touch any generic Vegas or Vegas 6 specific entries.) Then I reinstalled Vegas 8. I had tried uninstalling / reinstalling multiple times before that, but nothing helped until I cleaned out the registry.
It worked okay for a couple days, and then — after installing Windows Media Encoder 9 — I started getting the exact same error message when trying to run Vegas 8. I uninstalled WME, tried running Vegas, and got the message again — but this time, Vegas continued to load anyhow. And now the message doesn’t show up anymore. Why WME would cause this, I don’t know. I’m sure I’ve had it installed before without problem.
Not sure if my machine was having the same as yours, but hopefully this will provide some leads.
Rob
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The text needs to be on a separate track, and that track must be above the track with the picture. As long as you keep those two things in mind, I can’t think of anything that prevent you from seeing both.
Rob
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In the ffdshow program folder, you’ll find a programmed called VFW Configuration. Run that and select the Decoder tab. On the right, find the codec you want Vegas to be able to use. You will probably see “disabled” in the Decoder column for that codec. Selecting the word “disabled” will give you a dropdown box. Click the dropdown’s arrow and choose “libavcodec” and click OK.
Note that there are a few Divx versions listed (in mine, anyhow). You may need to do this for all of them.
Rob
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For what it’s worth, the behavior of the “menu” buttons on physical remote controls is not very consistent, anyhow. Some remotes, in fact, don’t do anything if you press the Menu button while you’re on a submenu — they only “work” while you’re playing a video.
I’d say that, when creating a simulation of a real remote, the developers make their best guess as to what some buttons should do, but it’s nearly impossible to emulate every physical remote buttons — since the manufacturers can’t agree on which should do what when.
Rob
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For the record, when copy / pasting into the Credit Roll generator, you don’t have to do each line / cell individually. Just type everything into a text editor, using tabs to separate columns. Select everything and copy. Then in the Credit Roll generator, click the square at the top left corner and hit Ctrl+V to paste.
Rob
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For the record, I believe that this behavior (where DVDA would allow you to add the same file multiple times without needing more disc space) was added in DVDA 2.0, so I don’t think you’ll be able to do this with DVDA 1.0.
Rob
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Sounds like a pixel aspect ratio issue.
Computers use square pixels. (They’re not exactly square, but very, very close.) Most video formats use rectangular pixels — the pixels themselves are either wider than they are tall or taller than they are wide. This is why both standard NTSC DV and widescreen NTSC DV actually have the exact same dimentions (720 pixels by 480 pixels); the difference is in the size and shape of the pixels themselves.
Getting back to your snapshots: For some reason, Vegas saves snapshots differently whether you use the Copy to Clipboard option or the Save Snapshot to File option. Using the former, a snapshot copied from a 720×480 video is going to be 720×480. Using the latter, a snapshot saved to file from that same 720×480 video is going to be 655×480.
Solutions:
1. Use the method that gives you the size you want. If that method is the Copy to Clipboard one, then you’ll need to use a graphics app like Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, or even MS Paint (I think it can save to PNG these days?), paste the image there, and save to a new file.
2. Use the other method and use a graphics app to resize your image. Just be sure to turn OFF that program’s “Retain Aspect Ratio” option.
3. Just put the image back into your Vegas project, right-click it, and go to Switches > Maintain Aspect Ratio (uncheck it).
Rob
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On a default toolbar, the eighth icon from the right (13th from the left) is Lock Envelopes to Events. Is your enabled or disabled?
Rob
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No.
Rob