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“I’ve already subscribed” dozens of times. That should have removed me from the solicitation list
I am sorry for your problem with this, but you seem to fail to understand a very important thing. If you delete cookies your request above is impossible fulfill. The nature of web interfaces means that cookies are required save this information, and once you delete the cookies you make it impossible for the cow to know that you have seen the solicitation in question.
Perhaps the COW computer gets it’s files flushed on a regular basis as well.
How is the cow supposed to know that you have been presented with this solicitation request? The only way it can know wheter you have been presented with a solicitation request is to store it in a cookie on your PC.
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I don’t think it does anything else than testing the speed of your burn.
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Surely there is another way?
No, there is not. If you want a site to remember you, you have to keep your cookies around. Also, I disagree with you that you need to clean them out regularly, you really don’t. If you run IE, set privacy level to medium or medium-high, and you will be fine, if you run Mozilla/Firefox allow cookies for originating site only.
cookies must be cleaned out regularily, any other course is irresponsible
Why? There is nothing dangerous about cookies as long as you only allow cookies to be sent to the originating site. Really. What harm do you think cookies can do?
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There is no reason to clean your cookies every day. If you set your browser to only accept cookies from the originating website, you should be fine. Cookies can not transmit a virus, and if you set the browser to send cookies only to the originating website, they can not be used to target you for advertising etc.
In other words, you are being a little too paranoid about your cookies 🙂
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Vegas will support any resolution used by Windows. For some reason, very few video cards support 1680×1050 resolution. This is a list at the Acer site of video cards they have confirmed support 1680×1050
I have an nVidia 6600, and it doesn’t support it. I therefore have to run at 1600×1050, which works fine. I do not think I will upgrade the graphics card yet for the extra 8k pixels 🙂
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I know the largest software company in the world and the largest hardware company in the world but not the largest computer company in the world…
LOL. Sorry, I was trying to be funny, probably not entirely successful. What the largest company is is a matter of how you measure I guess. The company I work for is bigger than Microsoft in number of employees, and has more than twice their revenue. Microsoft on the other hand has significantly higher market cap than do we 🙂
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A software that cannot calculate the requirements for memory space should provide a warning and not a stop.
When DVDA creates a DVD, it will need work-space in addition to the space required for the final product. The exact amount of work-space may not be known to DVDA for a few reasons, one being that it uses a third-party tool (MainConcept MPEG encoder) to do some of the work. DVDA can not know what requirements MainConcept will have. This is just one of the problems. You had 5G available on the drive in question, which was not enough. You can not expect DVDA to randomly use disk space available on other drives. If DVDA felt free to randomly stuff data whereever it wanted on my drives, I would throw it out. That is bad software design. Also, if DVD thinks it will not be able to finish the job, it should also stop. The reason is simple. Say it didn’t stop and wait for you to clean up your HD? Say it continued working and then stopped when it ran out of space. If you couln’t easily fix the issue, you would have wasted a lot of time. If you were encoding from AVI to MPEG on a slow-ish computer, perhaps a couple of hours. How would you react if DVDA wasted that many hours for you? Cleaning up a little bit of extra space, in this case about 3G, should be fast enough. I can do it in less than 2 minutes. I am not sure why you spent so much time on it.
I looked at Ulead Videostudio 9. They have great themes.
I have not used Videostudio in qute a few years, I was usgin Ulead DVD Workshop before moving to DVD Architect. Since DVD Workshop can not create 16:9 menus and almost all my footage is 16:9, I have to go with DVDA.
Now, for the templates in Videostudio vs Vegas, that may very well be so. Ulead seems to have focused all of their attention on the low-end market, where eye-candy is more important than features. I prefer features, and I would like Sony to focus on features rather than eye-candy. It is trivial to create nice-looking menus in DVDA, but impossible to add subtitles in Videostudio.
Of course, more eye-candy is good too.
I have been working with computers for the last 35 years
That is impressive. I haven’t met many people who was working with computers back in 1970. Not outside of the big companies anyway. I have also worked in the computer industry, but only for some 20 odd years. Currently I work for the largest computer company in the world.
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What I am trying to do is burn a DVD, then take that DVD to my home Internet computer, save the footage to my desk top/hard drive; then go to an Internet video streaming service so I can upload my footage to their site, so I can share it with others.
In this case you should not use DVDA at all. DVDA will create a DVD for you, which means that it will take your MPEG files, massage them into .VOB files, split the sound into a separate file etc. This format isn’t particularly well suited for sharing over the net. In fact, if you want to share your videos, you should reconsider using MPEG-2, since some computers may not be able to play that (the user will need a DVD player to watch MPEG-2 as well). For internet sharing (I am not familiar wth MpegNation) I would recommend MPEG-4, DivX or similar.
What you want to do, once you have created the finished file (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX or whichever) is to create a data DVD and just put the MPEG onto that. Your DVD burner probably came with the appropriate software to do this. This will not play on your home DVD player/TV.
Now, from your first post, you said that you would like to create a DVD that you can watch on your TV, for this you need to create a DVD using DVD Architect. It should work fine on your TV. Whether it works on your home computer depends on your setup. Is auto-play enabled? Does the computer have a software DVD player installed?
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OK, I see what you mean about the buttons. You are correct, Vegas can not rotate an image for your buttons. You will have to use a paint program for that, I would recommend Photoshop Elements if you don’t have anything. Create the image you want with a transparent background and drop it in as the image for your Vegas menu.
Personally I use Ulead Cool 3D Studio when I want 3D style menus. I can both create 3D stills and animated 3D buttons. I really wouldn’t want Sony to add this capability to DVD Architect, they should focus on the DVD creation aspect.
Come to think of it, I assume you have Vegas Video as well. Create a 30 second movie (or less), apply a 3D moving path to the thing, export it as a non-compressed AVI. I think that would allow you to have a 3D menu with a transparent background. I’d have to check at home. I am not sure if Vegas can export uncompressed AVIs with transparent backgrounds.
My advice when it comes to disk is that you never let your harddrives go as full as you described them. Not for the sake of Vegas or DVD Architect, but for the sake of your harddrive, the performance, Windows etc. When harddrives are as full as yours, your PC will have significantly lower performance than normal, and there is a good chance that Windows will eventually crash. In addition, harddrives that are that full will be seriously fragmented, and there will not be enough room on the drive to de-fragment.
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I could not find out how to put the buttons in a different way than simply horizontal.
I am not quite sure what you mean here. Are you saying you can not put several buttons on a menu in other ways than horizontally? You can move a buttons to anywhere on the menu page using your mouse. Horizontally, vertically, star pattern, whatever takes your fancy.
When DVDA creates a DVD it will need up to twice as much space in the folder where you create it as is needed for the DVD it self. DVDA can not grab space from random directories or drives on your computer. This is perfectly normal behavior and all other software will have the same issue. If you, for example, try to unzip a 10G zip file containing many smaller files, onto a drive with only 5G available it will not work, even if you have 200G available on another drive.
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