Stephen Mann
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“Prepare DVD” in DVDA makes the files you need for a DVD. Use any DVD burn program to make the physical DVD.
Steve Mann
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The two are completely unrelated. If you want progressive DVD, then set your project properties to progressive.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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1) Is there a question here?
2) Animation and graphics sometimes play smoother with CBR.
3) Interlaced and Progressive is a completely separate topic. Not related to CBR/VBR
4) 9.8MBPS is the max spec. I never trust anything above 8MBPS. Here’s why – the player can, by spec, decode the data stream at 9.8 MBPS – if it doesn’t have to do anything else. Burned DVD’s have data errors. It’s a fact of life – a perfect duplicated (burned) DVD is extremely rare. (That’s why DVD duplication shops ask for two or more copies of your burned DVD “master”.) So, because burned DVD’s contain errors, the processor in the player has to do some error correction in addition to decoding the A/V data. If your DVD has more errors than the processor can handle in its spare time, you see a momentary pause on the screen while the player catches up.
This is also why you don’t ever want to burn a DVD at the highest data rate the hardware allows. You will have more errors.
5) See number 3.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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You don’t list anything about your system on your profile, but..
A BSOD is Windows way of of saying “WTF?”.
Vegas isn’t crashing, Windows is.Windows will crash with a BSOD when it tries to address bad RAM, or tries to write data into a ROM address space. BSOD is actually quite rare now because Windows can usually isolate any error and close the program that was running when Windows crashed and present the equally frustrating “Windows has Encountered a Problem”.
But at least Windows keeps running. You should note, Windows protects itself above any running application.
So, without knowing anything about your PC and what you’re trying to edit, no one can help you here.
I am interested in this thread, though, because I haven’t seen a BSOD in at least two or three years.
Steve Mann
Steve Mann
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“I’m not sure if programs use a scratch disk too much any more, but if so is there an optimal drive to set the scratch disk, temp files and cache?”
Yes, they do. But they use the DOS environment variable for “temp” or “tmp” rather than a discrete disk.
Moving your TMP folders to another drive can also provide a small (very small) improvement in performance. (Under Control Panel, System, Advanced…)
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Where are you seeing performance improvements? If you are editing DC, HDV or AVCHD, then any 7200RPM SATA disk and most USB 2.0 External disks can easily keep up with the 25Mb/sec data rate, reading or writing.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Whoops, wrong thread.
Just ignore my previous reply.But I would still like to see the problem because I think I may have seen the same thing.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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You can also just drop the new audio on top of the old, and it becomes the active take.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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RAID is completely unnecessary.
Also, you can use the DOS command “subst” to change any drive’s letter assignment.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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That’s easy, Quicktime Player does not support alpha channel.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com