Stephen Mann
Forum Replies Created
-
Do it yourself:
https://www.videohelp.com/calc.htmUse the defaults, plug in your video time, round down to even 00 and you should be fine. Some people tweak their bit rate to get exactly the 4.37Gb or whatever, but it’s a waste of time. The difference from a 4.3Gb and a 4.37gb DVD is negligible.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com -
Played fine here, 720p, full-screen.
Didn’t understand a bit of it, but it played without any obvious problems.Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com -
Why would the camera make any difference if it outputs HDMI?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com -
“… and I’ll get crashes at different times…”
This is the classic symptom of processor overheating.Here’s a program called Prime95 which is used by overclockers to stress their PC’s:
https://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=103If I am right, this program should crash for you in the same timeframe.
If I am wrong, you may discover the 46th Mersenne prime. FYI, M45 is 243,112,609-1, a mammoth 12,978,189 digit number, found on a University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) computer in the GIMPS PrimeNet network.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com -
When you say “add clips to the project” are you using Vegas capture to add the media? (Media on the timeline are events, not clips. This confuses people coming from other editing programs, and explains why you can’t search for “clips” in Vegas help).
Scenalyzer will connect to your camera through Firewire, and capture your video on the tape to AVI files. Then, just drag those AVI files to your timeline. Don’t bother to use any of the indexing or other features of Scenalyzer – I think these were programmed when 100Gb and a dual-core processor were state of the art. Just capture.
Before I switched to HDV and tapeless recording I captured everything with Scenalyzer. I started using Scenalyzer years ago (when 50Gb and 100MHz processor were state of the art) and Vegas Capture struggled to keep up with the data flow from the camera. I never used any other DV capture program since.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com -
If your problem is just capture, try using “Scenalyzer Live”. It just does one thing, and it does it well.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com -
You think?
Go to the SCS site and log in using the login name and password you set up when you registered the product, and look under “my software” and you should find a link to any downloadable products.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com -
I don’t use the studio version, but have you registered the software yet? Typically, Sony provides these extras only as a download after you register the program.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com -
You don’t provide enough clues about your workflow, but the video_ts and audio_ts folders (both are required even though audio_ts is always empty) are created by the program that “prepares” your DVD files.
My workflow is to make he mpeg/ac3 files in Vegas, then move them into DVDA to author the DVD menus. When I select “Prepare” in DVDA, the program makes the _ts folders. I use DVDA to burn the discs, but you can use any DVD burning software at this point.
In DVDA you are prompted to provide a path to your DVD files. This is where DVDA puts the _ts folders.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com -
“Bug” is a loaded term. What you have is a PC problem, possibly some media or driver conflict. But a bug? Not likely. In fact, that you work OK in HDV and not in DV is curious because Vegas has to work harder to edit HDV.
If you can make short projects then just crate a master project and drag the veg files from each short project to the timeline. Come to think of it, that probably won’t work either if your PC can’t handle the bigger project in the first place.
You could make a bunch of AVI/AC3 files of each “scene” of your DVD and then join them in DVDA. Let each end-action proceed to the next scene and the viewer will only experience a brief transition between them.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com