Rob Strobbe
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Not clear here: Have you clicked Custom and made sure that the video tab has the correct PAR, but the file doesn’t render with it? Or are you just choosing the Uncompressed template and trusting that it lists the correct PAR? Possible that at some point your template got changed, and Vegas is just using the settings that are there. If that’s the case, just correct the PAR there and hit the Save button next to the template name (in the Custom Template dialog).
Rob
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Far as I know, the only thing new in Vegas Pro 9 with regard to photos is that it handles larger image sizes. (Specifically, it supports what are called “gigapixel’ images.)
Rob
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It says right on the download page, “The following downloads are provided for existing customers only.”
Rob
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“I have music on the first menu page with a background picture of my own. If the scene selection button is pressed, i would like the same music to continue without interuption on the next page.”
Can’t be done. Each menu on a DVD is a separate file, and that file contains the video and audio for that menu. When you move from menu to another, the DVD player stops playing that menu’s file and starts playing the next’s.
“Also i put pictures on the buttons themselves and some of the pictures are hazy looking. They are in focus just foggy looking. What causes that?”
Can’t be certain from your description — “hazy looking” could mean many things. Can you post a screencap? My guess would be that the scaled image is just pixelated.
Rob
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I suspect that Sadeth is using the phrase “audio tracks” to refer to audio events. In which case, he wants to know how to adjust the volume for one event without the points affecting the following events.
Rob
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I see that John came through with a script, but honestly I don’t think you need one. To make several tracks move in unison, all you need to do is insert a new track above them, make each of those a Child of the new one, and then set keyframes for that first one (called the Parent). The rest will move as a group controlled by this Parent track.
The button to make one track the child of another is at very right of the track header and looks like a bent arrow.
Rob
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This may even easier to fix than you imagine. Put the photo(s) on a Vegas timeline and add the Color Corrector FX. In the FX’s dialog, click the Complimentary Color picker beneath the “High” color wheel. Then click an area of the preview window where the image should be white. Your image should look a little better. Now click the Complimentary Color picker beneath the “Low” color wheel, and then click an area of the preview window where the image should be black.
In all liklihood, that will do it. If not, also try the “Mid” Complimentary Color picker and choose an area that should be gray-ish.
Rob
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Actually, most CDs are about 72 minutes.
But, no, you cannot compress it in order to get more — assuming you want it to play in a standard CD player. A standard CD’s audio is fixed at 44.1KHz and 16-bit stereo — it holds what it holds, and that’s what it holds. 😉
You could stick the files on a Vegas timeline and change the playback rate, but you won’t only be able to “compress” it so much before the audio will be distorted. (Vegas is able to change the length of audio without affecting the pitch, but naturally there is a point at which the speaker is going to fast for anyone to understand.)
The other option is to encode to MP3 and put those on a data CD instead of a standard audio CD. Many CD players (esp. car CD players) will be able to play on it, but not all of them.
Rob
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Using end actions is one way to go, but it has its problems. This method adds each video as an individual title, which means that after each one finishes, the player has to find what to do next. This will cause almost all players to pause for a moment. Maybe for half a second, maybe for a few. Navigating between these videos using the Next Chapter and Previous Chapter buttons may not work as expected either — since, technically, they’re not chapters.
There are two alternative methods that are more reliable. The first is to insert a Music / Video Compilation (called simply a Music Compilation in some versions, but works just as well) and add your videos to that. DVDA will create a single title from them with each one as a chapter.
The other method is to give DVDA a single file in the first place. If the videos you’re working with are not already DVD compliant, then drop them all on a Vegas timeline and render out to MPEG2. If the videos are already MPEG2 (and DVD compliant), use something like VOBMerge or Womble to put them into a single file without having to re-encode them. (Vegas Pro 8.0 and up can smart render MPEG, but you have to get the settings just right.)
Rob
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[i]Also what good is the set in and out point if you can not shorten the clip?[/i]
It changes what portion of the video will be shown when the disc is played.
But, unless there is already a reason for DVD Architect to re-encode the video, it is still going to put the whole thing on the disc. Actually editing the file would require that DVDA re-encode it, which you really don’t want. It’s a waste of time and will adversely affect the quality of your video. Take it into a program meant for editing, preferably one that does smart-rendering of MPEG files and trim the video there.
Rob